*THERE BE SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A CRYING PRIEST, RANDOM WALKERS AND AN UNDEAD PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE, ALL BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE LETTER “W”… So a funny thing happened to me on the way from the review of season 5 penultimate episode “Try” to its movie-length Continue Reading
Movie review: Love is Strange
While grandly romantic gestures like impossibly large bunches of flowers for no reason, a surprise marriage proposal at a beloved’s favourite bookstore and heart-stirring declarations of commitment on major anniversaries are usually what gets love all its fantastically positive PR, it’s what happens in the little moments, in the nitty-gritty of every Continue Reading
“You’re like a kite dancing in a hurricane, Mr Bond”: First Spectre teaser trailer
SNAPSHOT A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organisation. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE. (official synopsis via Screenrant) I have an Continue Reading
Team Leda vs. Team Castor: Who will triumph in Orphan Black’s third season? (posters + sneak peek)
Orphan Black is one very clever show. It has managed to do what many shows before it have failed to do, mixing together edge-of-your-seat action, strikingly well-defined characters – largely thanks to the uber-talented Canadian actress Tatiana Maslany who, to date at least, has played almost all the characters in the Continue Reading
So what would Friends be like if it got a modern hipster reboot? Why THIS actually
Ah the ’90s and early Noughties … such a simple, uncomplicated time when all any of the Friends had to worry about was whether the couch would be free at Central Perk (it always was, of course), whether Ross was with Rachel or they were on a break (getting technical Continue Reading
Movie review: Infinitely Polar Bear
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