SNAPSHOT For their eighth fully animated feature, Illumination and Universal Pictures present The Grinch, based on Dr. Seuss’ beloved holiday classic. The Grinch tells the story of a cynical grump who goes on a mission to steal Christmas, only to have his heart changed by a young girl’s generous Continue Reading
Book review: The Feed by Nick Clark Windo
The Feed, Nick Clark Windo’s brilliantly-chilling debut novel, is predicated on a simply though wholly terrifying idea – what if all knowledge, every last skerrick of understanding and know-how, every warm-and-fuzzy memory and emotional connection suddenly ceased to exist? What then? What would we do? How would we survive? And Continue Reading
Life exists everywhere: The hilarious wildlife documentary parody Bin Chicken
SNAPSHOT Life survives in the harshest environments on planet Earth. Searing deserts, the frozen Arctic tundra. However there are more toxic places. Our cities and these have spawned an entirely new subspecies: The Australian bin chicken. Scientists have now confirmed what many Australians have believed for decades. once known Continue Reading
Now this is music #104: IZNiik, Raindear, Cashmere Cat, VÉRITÉ, Dana Buoy
I love anyone and anything that sits outside the usual boundaries of what people consider “normal”, which if you’re conservative is pretty much anything outside the beige and the banal. Rather than decrying people who push boundaries and are exceptionally, interestingly creative, we should celebrate them, hold them high, Continue Reading
Trees, dancing and the end of everything: Legion debuts season 2 trailer
SNAPSHOT The first full-length trailer for the FX drama’s return sees David (Dan Stevens) coming back from God knows where. Time has clearly gone by for the rest of the Summerland group and things are different. David’s pals have joined forces with their mortal enemies at Division III to Continue Reading
Life magically renewed: Mary Poppins Returns and Christopher Robin (trailers)
There’s something utterly delightful about films that not only take to wonderful fantastical places but which remember that, sooner or later, we will have to return to the far more ordinary surrounds of everyday life. It’s that beguiling way of the day-to-day and the whimsically magical that has made Continue Reading
Can you resist the siren call of Oblivion Song?
SNAPSHOT A decade ago 300,000 citizens of Philadelphia were suddenly lost in Oblivion. The government made every attempt to recover them but after many years they gave up. Nathan Cole… won’t. He makes daily trips, risking his life to try and rescue those lost, alone and afraid, living in Continue Reading
Movie review: See You Up There (Au revoir là-haut)
What could be more horrifying than the existential nightmare of war? Surely that is the apotheosis of every last cruelly dark facet of humanity given the form of guns, violence and senseless death? It would hard to argue against that assertion but in writer/director Albert Dupontel film See You Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: BioPunk and the junk status of the future
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