Love is a complicated emotion. On the one hand, it is everything the Bible says it is – patient, gentle, kind, protective, trusting, hopeful – and yet for all those unarguably positive characteristics, its outworking can also be angry, argumentative, regretful, mournful, frustrating. You see? Not an easy thing Continue Reading
We cannot leave the magic: Fraggle Rock is going to be a movie! With Joseph Gordon-Levitt!
Jim Henson is deservedly regarded as one of the towering creative talents of the 20th century, a man who, gifted with a limitless imagination, an almost magical ability for imbuing each and every one of his creations with poignant humanity, and a delightful sense of the whimsical and the absurd, gave us an Continue Reading
An excursion into lust and love: The arresting animation of Bill Plymption’s Cheatin’ (trailer)
SNAPSHOT Ella, a beautiful woman tired of unwanted attention from men, strolls through a carnival while reading a book. A barker talks her into trying the bumper cars, but the result is a perilous accident that leaves Ella trapped. A stranger, the handsome and muscular Jake, rescues her, and Continue Reading
The future is forever, live life extravagantly: Paper Towns movie trailer + poster
SNAPSHOT Paper Towns is directed by Jake Schreier (Robot & Frank) with a script by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber (both of (500) Days of Summer and The Fault in Our Stars) When Margo Roth Spiegelman (Cara Delvingne) beckons Quentin Jacobsen (Nat Wolff) in the middle of the Continue Reading
Movie review: Chappie
When we first meet Chappie, one of a growing number of seemingly indestructible weaponised robots or “scouts” being rolled out to augment the flesh and blood police of crime-ridden Johannesburg, he is not leading what you might call a charmed existence. So unlucky is the hapless droid, who has Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: Try (S5, E15 review)
* SPOILERS AHEAD … AS WELL AS MUCH GRIEVING, MANY PORKY PIES AND A SUBSTANTIAL LOSS OF SELF-CONTROL* “The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and …” Such a simple child’s ditty, one that celebrates the happy joys of heading somewhere special on Continue Reading
Where are you? Thunderbirds are GO! (new trailer)
I try to never be a captive of nostalgia. Spend some time with it yes, sup some tea, eat a biscuit, remember the good old days but never, ever be lured into the false sense of security that things were better way back when. Different certainly, special undoubtedly, but Continue Reading
Hang on for dear life: Mission:Impossible – Rogue Nation (poster + trailers)
I know it often feels like this is Bond, James Bond’s world and we’re all just living in it with rather less panache than he does (and nowhere near enough martinis, shaken, not stirred), but I have lately had the feeling, the Bond franchise’s renaissance under the dashing Daniel Continue Reading
Movie review: Home
It’s hard to imagine that a colourfully individualistic member of an invasive technologically highly-advanced but socially-awkward alien race, who have just picked Earth as their new home (no, humanity, as usual, was not consulted), and a small girl sheltering with her cat in an unnamed city from said extra Continue Reading
First impressions: The Last Man on Earth
Who hasn’t wondered, at some point or another, whether life wouldn’t be a whole lot simpler if it was simply us, an empty street and all the cheesecake we could eat? (Perhaps that last thing is just me but you get the overall point right?) Sandwiched like sardines in Continue Reading