SNAPSHOT The short tells the story of a boy who rather spends his time indoors playing videogames instead of discovering whats waiting in front of the door. One day his Mum decides to get a little surprise for his son, which makes it hard for him to concentrate on Continue Reading
Book review: Modern Romance by Aziz Ansari
Love may be eternal but as Aziz Ansari makes plain in his book Modern Romance, the way we go about finding it has changed radically in just the course of a few generations. Gone, he notes – to be fair he worked closely with award-winning sociologist Eric Klinenberg – Continue Reading
Judd Apatow and Netflix are in Love
SNAPSHOT LOVE follows Gus and Mickey as they navigate the exhilarations and humiliations of intimacy, commitment, and other things they were hoping to avoid. Having recently ended their respective dysfunctional relationships, Gus and Mickey meet each other by chance at a convenience store and forge a connection in the Continue Reading
Is there a feline cupid? Simon’s Cat Logic looks at love
Sorry to break it you folks and you’re anthropomorphic-inclined hearts but cats aren’t not intrinsically romantic. Yup, in fact they’ll happily mate with anyone, don’t take a partner for life and can even have multiple partners within one very short breeding window giving you those delightful polyglot litter colourings. Continue Reading
You know his name: New Jason Bourne trailer makes its presence felt
SNAPSHOT Matt Damon returns to his most iconic role in Jason Bourne. Paul Greengrass, the director of The Bourne Supremacy and The Bourne Ultimatum, once again joins Damon for the next chapter of Universal Pictures’ Bourne franchise, which finds the CIA’s most lethal former operative drawn out of the Continue Reading
Movie review: Trumbo
It is a curious quirk of the human condition that passionate devotion to an ideal can so often become fundamentalist zealotry that ultimately ends up trampling across the very belief system it is meant to uphold and protect. It has happened time and again throughout history but perhaps one of Continue Reading
You need the bare necessities of life! Jungle Book debuts new poster and trailer
SNAPSHOT The Jungle Book is directed by Jon Favreau (Iron Man, Cowboys & Aliens, Elf, Zathura, Made) and written by Justin Marks (Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li), based on Rudyard Kipling’s classic book of the same name. The film follows a young boy named Mowgli, a man-cub raised Continue Reading
Book review: The Happy Ever Afterlife of Rosie Potter (RIP) by Kate Winter
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