I thoroughly enjoyed Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life which premiered last year on my birthday, 25 November, and was the best present I could have asked for! While it was a little disconcerting to watch everyone that much older and not necessarily wiser, in much the way Continue Reading
I am ready for my close-up now Mr DeMeow! Cats and iconic movie scenes
Dave and Sarah, from Notts in the UK, are dedicated cat owners of Tara and Willow and the hosts of a weekly pub quiz where, not surprisingly, a movie question or two pops up. Now anyone can ask a question about a particular film, but how much more would Continue Reading
Bookstore and libraries are wonderful! This film montage celebrates all the reasons why
If you are a booklover like me, it’s highly likely you have spent a great deal of time in bookstores this festive season choosing amazing, thrilling, enticing, fun, sad, thoughtful books as presents for those you love. Of course I don’t need a particular season as an excuse to Continue Reading
Be Careful What You Search For: Life (trailer)
SNAPSHOT Life tells the story of the six-member crew of the International Space Station that is on the cutting edge of one of the most important discoveries in human history: the first evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars. As the crew begins to conduct research, their methods end up Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Moom and memories of everything
SNAPSHOT The story of Moom takes place in a mystical land where memories are characters attached to forgotten and discarded objects. Each memory is released from their object when they are ready to let go. Unlike other memories, Moom is a memory stuck in this mystical land. One day, Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Well known movie posters reimagined
Movie posters are powerful things. They are often instrumental in us forming opinions of a film long before we sit down in a cinema and give a sense of visual style and story to the increasingly lavish and diverse marketing that marks the release of many movies. So notable Continue Reading
“Here’s looking at you, kid” Top 10 types of character goodbyes in movies
Saying goodbye is never easy. And no one knows that better than the purveyors of cinema who have helped their audiences make sense of grief and loss since the first film flickered to life in the 1890s. As this deeply-informative video from Cinefix distills beautifully, cinemas role in this regard Continue Reading
Movie review: Lion
As anyone who has emerged into the full bloom of adulthood with a modicum of self-awareness will acknowledge, the past always informs the present. For most of us this takes place in small but important ways – a nostalgic preference for a particular holiday place, meal or cultural activity, Continue Reading
Book review: Sirius by Jonathan Crown
Writing a tragi-comic novel centred on a dog of Lassie-like abilities, that is onw who is deeply loveable, prodigious and fantastical, may seem like a highly perilous undertaking. After all, how do you make one of the darkest periods in human history when fascist tyranny became horrifically commonplace and Continue Reading
Brick bazinga! The Big Bang Theory gets a LEGO intro theme
As it marches ever onward through its 10th season, The Big Bang Theory, sitcom ratings juggernaut, geek flagbearer and hilarious diversion from the travesties of real life, has finally been the recipient of something it should have had a long, long time ago. Which is what you ask as Continue Reading