SPOILERS AHEAD … AND LOTS OF ZOMBIES, SURVIVALISTS AND THE ODD HELICOPTER … Any idea that Fear the Walking Dead is the poor, insipid younger sibling of the The Walking Dead – not an opinion I held but one that had been widely articulated online – were put to Continue Reading
Back to Windsor Gardens: Paddington 2 trailer makes its gloriously sweet and clumsy debut
SNAPSHOT The sequel to the worldwide hit family film finds Paddington happily settled with the Brown family in Windsor Gardens, where he has become a popular member of the community, spreading joy and marmalade wherever he goes. While searching for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy’s hundredth Continue Reading
Movie review: Wonder Woman
In the much-storied, trope-heavy world of superhero movies, Marvel has, for what feels like an eternity, been the 800-pound gorilla, throwing epic, blockbuster film after epic blockbuster film at audiences, each one seemingly more successful and zeitgeist-dominating than the last, its erstwhile rival DC Comics always consigned to a Continue Reading
Females are STILL strong (and funny) as hell: Thoughts on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt season 3
Watching any episode of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is always a frothy, fun delight. Saturated in a cartoonish, often surreally colourful fashion, where the quirky and the everyday sit happily side-by-side, and populated by characters prone to pronouncements that make sense only to them (and yet somehow make sense Continue Reading
Book review: The Hot Guy by Mel Campbell and Anthony Morris
It hasn’t been easy being a romantic comedy fan of late. Ever since Meg Ryan, and later Sandra Bullock shuffled off their mortal rom-com coil, and to be honest not always even then, has this genre ever matched the giddy heights of the golden age of Hollywood when Gregory Continue Reading
Movie review: Alien Covenant
The act of creation is generally seen as a wholly positive thing, the beginning of new life, with the myriad possibilities that entails. But in Alien: Covenant, which more than successfully bridges the lacklustre Prometheus, and the later Alien films, it’s an altogether darker affair, one that strips creation bare Continue Reading
How do you fend off an Alien: Covenant face hugger? Let Rick and Morty show you how!
If you’ve watched any of the Alien films, and let’s face it most of us have (and have the blanket forts we hid in when things got scary to prove it – wait, was that just me?), you’ll be well aware that getting a face hugger attached to your Continue Reading
A delightful new animated take on The Ugly Duckling
SNAPSHOT Communications company NET wanted to show how making new connections helps you get out of a funk. They wanted to emphasize their social work as part of the company’s ethos. They proposed a new take on a classic tale. We used a blend of filmed puppetry to give Continue Reading
Alien and kittens? Yep, it’s all fun and games on board the Nostromo
By any measure, Alien is a scary, tense thriller. It’s hard not to watch the crew of the Nostromo succumb one by one to the xenomorph stalking them with horrific precision – except for you Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) and Jones the intrepid crew cat – without goosebumps, hands over Continue Reading
Blast off into dramedy space with The Orville
SNAPSHOT In the 25th century, Earth is part of the Planetary Union, a far-reaching, advanced and mostly peaceful civilization with a fleet of 3,000 ships. Down on his luck after a bitter divorce, Planetary Union officer Ed Mercer MERCER (MacFarlane) finally gets his chance to command one of these Continue Reading