SNAPSHOT Biopunk is set in London in 2054, some thirty years after a virus has devastated half the world’s population and transformed them into something other than human. (synopsis via YouTube (c) DUST) The future huh? We’re not desperately enamoured with the idea of it at present are we? Continue Reading
Draw me an Oscar! Watch this supercut of every Best Animated Feature winner (2002-2017)
From Shrek to Spirited Away and Finding Nemo and The Incredibles to WALL-E and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Big Hero 6, UP to Inside Out and Zootopia, there have been some mighty fine winners of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. With the Academy Continue Reading
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the importance of film editing (video essay)
Michel Gondry’s masterfully poignant 2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of those rare quirky films that not only packs an emotional punch, and how, but also says something truly meaningful. Telling the story of a heartbroken man, Joel (Jim Carrey) who submits to a prcoedure that wipe Continue Reading
Why are there so many stairs?! Final Space hilariously asks the important questions
SNAPSHOT The intergalactic escapade follows an astronaut named Gary and his planet-destroying sidekick, Mooncake. Together, the two embark on serialized journeys through space in order to unlock the mystery of where the universe actually ends, and if it actually does exist. (synopsis via Wikipedia) Begone shrivelled carcasses of depression! Continue Reading
Movie review: Finding Your Feet
There is a particular kind of film at which the British film industry excels at an order of magnitude greater than pretty much anyone else on the planet. In these movies, a person has variously fallen on hard times/lost their way/had long-held assumptions shaken and find themselves almost catastrophically Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The sweet hopefulness of Cautionary Tales
When I look back on all the many ways my parents tried to get me to behave – like I was ever naughty! Actually as an eldest child I behaved really well … yeah, yeah, I know opportunity lost – I have to laugh at the lengths they went Continue Reading
The beat goes on: Trolls explodes with season 2 colour and fun
SNAPSHOT The newest season follows Poppy (Amanda Leighton), Branch (Skylar Astin) and the Snack Pack as they live it up with all new glitter-rific festivities and adventures, like taking part in the Annual Party Games, battling in an epic village-wide pillow fight, and rapping in an open mic compliment Continue Reading
Book review: How to be Happy by Eva Woods
In this self-actualised age in which we live, we are sold the idea over and over that we can have anything we want if we just want it hard enough. Kind of like wearing down the universe until it caves in and grants us undying happiness, peace, contentment, and Continue Reading
Script to screen: Bringing Wall-E to memorable life
(image courtesy IMP Awards) Pixar have long been the masters of creating meaningful, evocative storytelling that touches the soul with sometimes the simplest of gestures or words. One of their greatest achievements is WALL-E, the story of a lone refuse clean up robot left behind on a disastrously polluted Continue Reading
Stargate Origins: Episodes 4 & 5 (review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THREE MOONS! COUNT ‘EM – THREE! Ever had those moments when you’re in way over your head, when everything you thought you knew is of little-to-no-use and there are three moons overhead and not one? OK perhaps that last one is a little outside the Continue Reading