So what’s a young woman like Rosie Potter supposed to do? One morning she wakes up in her favourite blue flannel pajamas, feeling a little worse for wear – most likely from one of her big nights out in village of Ballycarragh that she calls home – her bedroom trashed, Continue Reading
If only all the Oscar Best Picture nominated films starred Winnie the Pooh! Oh wait now they do
If you have ever wished that someone would give movies nominated for an Academy Award a delightfully Winnie the Pooh twist, then you’re in luck. Polish film blogger David Adamek has taken up an idea first proposed by Twitter user @dilsexia aka Daniel to give movies caught in Oscars orbit this Continue Reading
Movie review: The Danish Girl
A sense of identity is intrinsic to what it means to be human. But all too often our ability to express that in an authentic and meaningful way is subverted or denied, falling victim to societal demands that we behave a certain way in order to meet traditional or Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The touching stages of life in After You
SNAPSHOT In 2013, Irish filmmaker Damien O’Connor of Brown Bag Films created “After you“, a short animated film that tells the incredibly touching story of a Dublin hotel doorman throughout his career – his first day, his first door opened, his fear of the revolving door and his ability Continue Reading
Ouch! Star Wars The Force Awakens and steps on an hilarious LEGO parody trailer
SNAPSHOT The No. 1 LEGO® series triumphantly returns with a fun-filled, humorous journey based on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The game also features exclusive playable content that bridges the story gap between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. (official synopsis via Laughing Squid) Let’s face it Continue Reading
Five fab animation trailers: Kubo and the Two Strings, Trolls, The Secret Life of Pets, Zootopia, Finding Dory
Let’s get animated! Or perhaps let a whole lot of fabulous characters in some wonderful looking animated movies do their thing. There’s certainly a lot to choose from with some beautiful looking, and just plain quirky, silly fun animated films coming up in 2016. As is the way of Continue Reading
Movie review: Brooklyn
Have you ever asked yourself what home feels like? Not the physical building as such; rather than sense of belonging that comes with a particular place and time where the people that matter to you are present, you have a sense of purpose and direction and your life feels Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Disney characters go whimsically dark in Tim Burton-esque illustrations
Gifted, idiosyncratic director and creative visionary Tim Burton is no stranger to Disney. He has after all, in the last few years alone, directed or produced Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) for the home of Mickey Mouse so it makes perfect sense that artist Continue Reading
Now this is music #62: The Dandy Warhols, EKKAH, Lady Bee, KEØMA, PANKHABILLI
“Love is a many-splendored thing” observed Frank Sinatra and while that is still as true as the day he first sang it, there’s also a lot about it that isn’t so wonderful. Well at least when it’s in its death throes anyway. Kinda gloomy to focus on you might Continue Reading
First impressions: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
How far would you go for love? Or at least the idea of love? Hell, a skerrick of a thought of a glimpse of a whispered memory of love from 10 years previously? Probably not all that far on the last count but then you’re not Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom), Continue Reading