Room by Emma Donoghue is one of those rare, beautifully-crafted books that draws you into its world completely and absolutely and affects you profoundly in ways you couldn’t have imagined when you first pick it up. It’s hard, nay all but impossible not to be affected by the story Continue Reading
You better run, run run: The Hunters will find you (trailer)
SNAPSHOT From executive producers Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead, The Terminator trilogy) and Natalie Chaidez (12 Monkeys, Heroes), Hunters is inspired by Whitley Strieber’s best-selling novel, Alien Hunter, in which the disappearance of a decorated FBI agent’s wife leads him to a secret government unit assembled to hunt a group of ruthless terrorists – shadowy Continue Reading
First impressions: The Expanse
Depending on where you stand on the sci-fi spectrum, humanity is either bound for a glorious Star Trek-ian future of gleaming cities, equity for all and peace throughout the galaxy, or it’s doomed for a gritty Blade Runner-esque world where cities lies in filthy ruin, climate change has run Continue Reading
What if Inside Out was just the Out bits? Watch and see …
Inside Out is hands down and hearts on our sleeve one of the best movies that Pixar has ever made, and arguably one of the best films of 2015. Much of its appeal and its heartfelt effect on audiences comes from the way it gives us not just the Continue Reading
Carrots at the ready! Snowball the bunny frees the fun in latest Secret Life of Pets clip
SNAPSHOT In this fifth fully animated feature collaboration, the studios which brought you Despicable Me present a fast-paced, hilarious thrill ride following the secret lives that domesticated pets lead each day while their humans are away at work or school. The film stars Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, Continue Reading
Want to go and stay at 10 Cloverfield Lane? (trailer + poster)
SURPRISE! That’s not something you often hear when it comes to new movie projects; birthday parties and unexpected gifts yes, movies, no. And it’s especially so in our hyper-connected age where it’s enough for an influential blogger or industry insider to hear a movie producer murmur about a new project in Continue Reading
Movie review: Spotlight
Humanity has a natural predilection for justice. It’s why so much of our storytelling pivots around the idea that justice is not only possible, through fair means or foul, but desirable, that the idea of someone or something such as an institution getting away with something is unacceptable and Continue Reading
In a galaxy far far away … Star Wars characters cuddle up to kittehs courtesy of Disney artists
Cats and Star Wars characters together? Surely that is a combination made in heaven! Well, if you’re a Star Wars-obsessed, cat-loving guy like me it is. Two talented Disney feature animation artists, Griz and Norm Lemay have seen fit to bring these two groups together and the resulting artwork, Continue Reading
Book review: A Year of Marvellous Ways by Sarah Winman
It is a rare thing indeed to come across a book that not only possesses engaging, beguiling characters in a world that seems as real as anything physically before you but which tells their story with a lyricism and poetry so exquisite that you stop every paragraph or so to Continue Reading
Pixar homage: How the much-loved animation studio doffs its creative hat to great movies past
There are a great many things to love about Pixar. Their ability to conjure up a fully-formed world whether it’s a child’s room or a facility where monsters go out to scare children and harvest their fright energy. Their attention to detail, their rich characters who leap off the Continue Reading