Anyone who has seen Trumbo, the brilliantly-executed story of one wisecracking screenwriter’s attempt to defy the prohibitions of the McCarthyist era in America, will agree that there is precious little to laugh about when it comes to draconian moralising and coercive, chest-thumping patriotism on a nationwide scale. But that Continue Reading
Alice Through the Looking Glass: Time is ticking away (new trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT In Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass, an all-new spectacular adventure featuring the unforgettable characters from Lewis Carroll’s beloved stories, Alice returns to the whimsical world of Underland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter. Directed by James Bobin, who brings his own unique vision Continue Reading
The Walking Dead – “The Next World” (S6, E10 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A LAKE FULL OF GROCERIES … YEAH DON’T ASK* The Walking Dead is a lot of things my friends – dramatic, touching, sad, scary, occasionally happy, doom-laden and portentous – but tonight it was also instructive in the ways of apocalypse etiquette. Yes etiquette, in Continue Reading
Apocalyptic bedtime stories: The Walking Dead gets a pop-up book
SNAPSHOT This spectacular pop-up book from paper engineers David Hawcock and Becca Zerkin forms the perfect guide to the world of AMC’s The Walking Dead. Filled with eye-catchingly gory pops, the book takes the reader through some of the most iconic moments from the hugely popular series. The book Continue Reading
Hey you animals! You know you gotta SING
SNAPSHOT Set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals, Sing stars Buster Moon (Academy Award® winner Matthew McConaughey), a dapper Koala who presides over a once-grand theater that has fallen on hard times. Buster is an eternal optimist—okay, maybe a bit of a scoundrel—who loves his Continue Reading
First impressions: Baskets
No one likes to admit it outright but sometimes life can be pretty disappointing. You stack up your dreams and barely-whispered expectations in the hope they will lead somewhere special and when they don’t, you either have a choice to give up entirely or cobble together a rough approximation of Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Finding Dory hides away in colourful new posters
SNAPSHOT “Finding Dory” reunites Dory with friends Nemo and Marlin on a search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale? (synopsis via Coming Soon) Everyone’s favourite forgetful Pacific Regal Blue Tang has a fine case of Continue Reading
Now this is music #63: Flume feat. Kai, Bayonne, Archy Stranger, Hudson Mohawke, Bob Moses
We’re always told honesty is the best policy but knowing that and acting on it can often be two completely different things. But as these five artists demonstrate in different ways, being honest, both with yourself and others, before and after the fact, can have profoundly necessary consequences. It’s Continue Reading
Movie review: Deadpool
It’s a rare thing indeed for the often creatively-moribund studios of the Hollywood system to set aside a formula that works and allow the production team of a film to not simply think outside of the box but bust it wide open until only gaping wreckage remains. But that’s exactly what Continue Reading
Movie review: Carol
As anyone who has ever had to conceal their true sexual identity will tell you, the effects of this societal-induced subterfuge can be debilitating. Forced to play a role for which you are often ill-suited simply by virtue of the way you were born, many LGBTQI people find themselves Continue Reading