SNAPSHOTTo infinity and… The sci-fi action-adventure presents the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear—the hero who inspired the toy—introducing the legendary Space Ranger who would win generations of fans. Lightyear is directed by American animation filmmaker Angus MacLane, co-director on Finding Dory, and director of the shorts Toy Story of Continue Reading
LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales #Halloween
The marriage of LEGO and whatever pop culture property is sensible enough to submit to the power of Denmark’s favourite toy, usually an hilariously manic one. Jokes fly by you at a million miles an hour, character veer between hardcore meta and fourth wall breaking vivacity against a backdrop so Continue Reading
Scary! Right there on my TV … what if Ted Lasso and Sex Education were recut as horror movies?
It is fairly safe to say that Sex Education and Ted Lasso are not horror movies. Anything but in fact – the former is a dramedy that takes a honest and heartwarmingly brutal look at what it is like to come of age, sexually and otherwise, while the latter is Continue Reading
Book review: Sunfall by Jim Al-Khalili
It is, once again poor beleaguered citizens of planet earth, the end of the world as we know it. Or, at least the possible end of the world, anyway. In Jim Al-Khalili 2014-set, fast-paced race to a likely extinction line, Sunfall, there’s a very good chance that humanity is facing Continue Reading
It’s time to face your fears! The quirky, scary hilarity of the Muppets Haunted Mansion #Halloween
Are the Muppets inherently scary? Well, no, of course not, they are the very definition of quirky, sweet, charming and Dad Joke silly, the warm and fuzzy hug we need when things do get a little frightening. So, what then, you might ask, are they doing in a Halloween special Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Shadecraft by Henderson / Garbett / Fabella / Bowland (issues 1-5)
Growing up is not easy. We all know that much; if you were paying attention growing up, and most of us were, you’ll have realised pretty quickly that life often treated you as a chew toy to be gnawed on over and over, vigorously shaken from side-to-side like you were Continue Reading
Intimate moments on an epic scale: Thoughts on Invasion (S1, E 1-3)
We have been conditioned over many decades of enrapturing TV and movie storytelling to see alien invasions as a bombastically epic event. And to be fair, they are are to a large extent; you don’t just subsume an entire planet to your own will, using overwhelming amounts of military technology Continue Reading
Book review: The Hush by Sara Foster
Thrillers are wonderfully escapist books to read. Fuelled with adrenaline, powered by judiciously-placed reveals and always moving at something near to the speed of narrative light, they are a genre that is perfectly placed to take us on a wild journey that, happily in our famously loose end-addicted world where Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Hungry seagull gets what he wants … or does he … in DEAD MEAT
SNAPSHOT“I’m [Adnan Mohamed] proud to present an Animated short that I have worked on during my time at Vancouver Film School! … For a long time I wanted to animate something that makes people giggle and feel joy in a weird way, because everybody gets silly sometimes and I feel Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #58: Agnes, The Regrettes, iamnotshane, Running Touch, Flight Facilities (feat. BROODS) + new ABBA single + Eurovision 2022 update
What a year! So much pressure and exhaustion and dashed hopes and expectations as COVID once again trashed its way across normal life and left us wondering which way is up and what is time. Thankfully, while we have felt trapped in a prison not of our making, some very Continue Reading