Movies

SNAPSHOTTwo beautiful cats named Tara and Willow have a very silly human named Dave who, with his partner Sarah, likes to recreate famous movie scenes with them, post the photos on Instagram and then have their many followers try to figure out from which film the scene came. In an Continue Reading

I have read, watched and generally taken in a great of fantasy storytelling in my time. And yet for all the wondrous tales I have read, the one that sticks with me, and many others, is the one that takes me far away from the everyday while still validating the Continue Reading

They were heady days back in the late ’90s. Back before omnipresent ads that serve you up ads for products you only thought you might want seconds earlier or Twitter became a bonfire of shouted opinions or inboxes became a stressful hallmark of cubicle serfdom, receiving an email or chatting Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTThe Last Dance by Chris Keller is a starkly beautiful, powerful short film that tells the visceral story of an older man named Hugo (Richard Syms). To quell his utter loneliness, Hugo becomes obsessed with building a machine that might someday allow him to relive a specific moment in time Continue Reading

There was once a time, a more innocently violent, popcorn-strewn time when action blockbusters were not just a lot of fun to watch but were well made, complete with richly-drawn characters (well, as richly-drawn as character exposition vs thrills and action would allow), reasonably complex plots and a visual panache Continue Reading

Dancing along the fine line that separates cliche and sclerotic trope-ism, and heartfelt, engaging storytelling, takes a deft way with words, an ability to give breath to fully-realised characters and someone who gets the contrary depths and heights of humanity. Not everybody possesses such a laudable grab bag of talents Continue Reading