Lucas the Spider is freaking adorable any time of the year. But there’s something about Christmas, a time of peace, goodwill and togetherness (and stripey festive peppermints), that makes him even more adorably sweet as he tries to befriend a fly to be his buddy at the most wonderful time Continue Reading
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Movie review: Spider-Man – Far From Home
Ah, ain’t it great to be young and in love? Maybe, but don’t run that particular line of dreamy romanticism by Peter Parker aka Spider-Man anytime soon. Throughout Spider-Man: Far From Home, which marks Tom Holland’s second standalone outing as the webbed superhero (he has, of course, appeared in a Continue Reading
Stranger Lambs: Shaun the Sheep’s Farmageddon gets very zeitgeist-y
SNAPSHOTWhen the intergalactic visitor – an impish and adorable alien called LU-LA – crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun soon sees an opportunity for alien-powered fun and adventure and sets off on a mission to shepherd LU-LA home. Her magical alien powers, irrepressible mischief and galactic sized burps soon have Continue Reading
Retro movie review: When Harry Met Sally
They say love is forever. But is a movie about love forever? Can a romantic comedy, no matter how beautifully written and superbly well-acted, truly last as well as the object of its narrative affections? If it’s When Harry Met Sally, and it’s written by the incomparably-talented Nora Ephron and Continue Reading
More than just toys: How Toy Story beautifully explores issues of abandonment (video essay)
No one likes to be abandoned or neglected. It cuts to the very core of our self-worth and lovability and the even the prospect of it, quite understandably, leaves us quaking in our existential boots. The same goes for the toys of Pixar’s Toy Story series, says Isaac of The Continue Reading
A mass of movie trailers: Ad Astra, After the Wedding, Plus One, Trolls World Tour, Under the Silver Lake
Movies! Movies! Movies! Fortunately for a cinephile like myself, they never stop but keeping up with the neverending cascade of trailers can take a lot of time and effort, and were I to put them all on the blog, more site real estate than I could afford, and frankly that Continue Reading
Movie review: Yesterday
At what point do you give up on a dream, one that has sustained you through dead end jobs, living at home with your parents, a rolling tumbleweed of a romantic life and a general sense of early promise unfulfilled? That’s the great dilemma facing Jack Malik (Himesh Patel), who Continue Reading
Weekday movie poster art: Toy Story 4
I love movie posters and I love and adore the Toy Story series of films, the latest of which Toy Story 4 is a brilliantly-worthy addition to films 1, 2 and 3, and so, the creation of posters by a group of artists celebrating what I would argue is Pixar’s Continue Reading
Some friendships are wild at heart: The enduring friendship of Animals
SNAPSHOTWild, outrageous and utterly hilarious, Animals is the acclaimed new film from director Sophie Hyde based on the book of the same name by Emma Jane Unsworth, featuring stunning lead performances from Holliday Grainger and Alia Shawkat. (synopsis courtesy Jumpcut Online) At first glance, you may not think that Australian Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Existential lessons from The Talking Tree
SNAPSHOTThe Talking Tree is an off-beat short comedy film written and directed by Stefan Hunt and produced by Matt Webb. It stars Eka Darville (Jessica Jones, Empire) who plays a man searching for purpose alongside John Ventimiglia (Blue Bloods, The Sopranos) an endearing claymation-faced tree who appears to have all Continue Reading