Pop quiz! What a quick, visual, easy to comprehend expositionary device used in movies, particularly the pre-digital ones? No, not voice-over narration! That is very rarely done well and kinda annoying to boot. I’m referring to the use of news paper front pages, which effectively convey a ton Continue Reading
Now this is upbeat chilled music: Maya Jane Coles, Basenji, Tusks, J.Views, Anna of the North
Life is relentless. It has a momentum that is fierce and uncompromising, racing hand in hand to a future only it seems to know, leaving us hanging on for dear life. Or maybe that’s simply how it often feels. The truth is we do have the power to call Continue Reading
“But it’s gooooood …” New Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer ramps up the galactic anticipation
SNAPSHOT Rey took her first steps into a larger world in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and will continue her epic journey with Finn, Poe, and Luke Skywalker in the next chapter of the continuing Star Wars saga. “The Last Jedi” is written and directed by Rian Johnson and Continue Reading
Movie review: The Girl with All the Gifts
The zombie genre has exploded in recent years, fuelled by a morbid end of days fascination with the way the apparent vivacity and robustness of human civilisation could so easily be brought down to undead ruin by any number of small, unnoticed Achilles heels. That’s good news if you Continue Reading
Audience meet protagonists: The impressive work of director Edgar Wright
No matter how you slice it, Edgar Wright is a very talented, immensely creative director/producer/screenwriter/actor, responsible for a slew of memorable movies including the Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World’s End), Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Ant Man and most recently, Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “This Land is Your Land” / “El Matadero” (S3, E13 & E14 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND WAY MORE HUMANITY (AND WAY LESS OXYGEN) THAN YOUR AVERAGE PIECE OF APOCALYPTIC STORYTELLING … The thing that has been most compelling about Fear the Walking Dead from the word go has been its willingness to wear its humanity on its sleeve. While its parent Continue Reading
Ruinworld and the trouble that comes with stealing cursed chests
SNAPSHOT RuinWorld is a fantasy adventure comic about treasure a couple of hunters that find themselves in a heap of trouble after stealing a cursed chest. (official synopsis via Ruinworld/Tapas) If you’re ever tempted to steal a cursed chest in a land replete with fantasy and adventure, and some Continue Reading
Puppets from socks! Jim Henson’s 1969 inventive masterclass on an age-old artform
SNAPSHOT Jim Henson and Muppeteers show kids how to make puppets from simple things like socks. This video aired on Public Television in 1969, prior to Sesame Street, on Iowa Public Television’s Volume See kids’ show. (source: Laughing Squid) I have long loved the work of Jim Henson. A Continue Reading
First impressions: Atypical (Netflix)
There’s no such thing as normal. That’s the refreshing message from Atypical, a new(ish) Netflix series created by Robia Rashid, about one charming young man on the autism spectrum, which ends up beautifully exploring the idea that none of us are really as normal as we’d like to think Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Famous movie clothing in itsy-bitsy window displays
It has long been said, in one form or another, that “clothes maketh the man (or woman)”. What is not as commonly remarked, but is no less true, is that clothes, or in this case, costumes, maketh the movie. One person who recognises that to the very core of Continue Reading