SNAPSHOTKeanu Reeves (John Wick, The Matrix) and Alex Winter (Deep Web; Downloaded) will officially be reuniting on screen after 27 years as the legendary Ted “Theodore” Logan (Reeves) and Bill S. Preston Esq. (Winter) in the highly anticipated third installment of the Bill & Ted comedy, Bill & Ted Face Continue Reading
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Weekday pop art: Mythical pop culture creatures go vintage scientific
SNAPSHOTFrom the series “Unnatural History” that explores pop culture characters depicted as vintage biology illustration studies. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) If you’re as enamoured of good storytelling as I am, you will understand that feeling deep within that acknowledges that though fictional creatures from movies, TV and books aren’t real, Continue Reading
Movie review: The Vast of Night
If you ever watched Game of Thrones, and it seems at one point the entire universe did and then some, you may remember that the Red Priestess, Melisandre, made reference as part of some ritualised chanting, to the fact that “The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors”. It was Continue Reading
Hello Mrs Doubtfire! Shall we dance?
SNAPSHOTBeats and tunes made from the sounds of Mrs. Doubtfire. Enjoy! (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Mrs Doubtfire is one of the great comedic triumphs of the 1990s. Released in 1993, this deeply poignant film starred the late, great, sorely-missed Robin Williams as Daniel Hillard / Mrs. Euphegenia Doubtfire, a man Continue Reading
Train to Busan: Peninsula ponders: Is it possible to escape the apocalypse?
SNAPSHOT“Four years after South Korea’s total decimation in Train to Busan, the zombie thriller that captivated audiences worldwide, acclaimed director Yeon Sang-ho brings us Peninsula, the next nail-biting chapter in his post-apocalyptic world. Jung-seok, a soldier who previously escaped the diseased wasteland, relives the horror when assigned to a covert operation Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Speedy the Turtle becomes a town’s newest hero
SNAPSHOTWakiki island is in peril by the destructive powers of the evil tiki god Tori, only one turtle is brave enough to stop him: Speedy the Turtle! (synopsis courtesy YouTube) What is it with Big Bads and their love of world-enslaving bling? They crave the stuff and it’s always up Continue Reading
One Zoom to Rule Them All | Reunited Apart “Lord of the Rings” edition
This is going to be one of those occasions where you feel old, really old. It’s now almost 20 years since the first film in the fabled Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings, was released to an eager public eager to Continue Reading
Movie review: The Lovebirds
When most couples get into trouble, one of the first things they consider is possibly getting some professional help. It makes sense – bringing in someone with counselling expertise who has no subjective stake in the health of the relationship and the back and forth of who said and did Continue Reading
“I wish I knew how to quit you”: Iconic movie lines get animated in the funniest of ways
At the heart of every great movie sits a sparkling, literate, narratively-rich screenplay. It’s not the only thing that at play, of course, but a movie without inspired writing might look flashy and beautifully-produced but will always feel more than a little hollow and insubstantial. Proof of how important superbly-rendered Continue Reading
Weekday pop art: If good movies were old books
In the usual scheme of things, movies and books don’t seem to have a whole lot in common. Different storytelling mediums – which for the more passionate among us usually ends up as “versus” situation rather than an “or” one – differing levels of expository or interior detail and complete Continue Reading