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  What an impressive achievement! Scott Ewing, a film fanatic of some considerable devotion, has created a brilliant montage of films showcasing the evolution of film from Eadweard Muybridge in 1878, a noted English motion picture pioneer, through to the Lumiere brothers in 1895, George Melies’ 1902 classic A Trip to Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT WISH I WAS HERE tells the story of Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, husband and dad who at 35 is still trying to find his true place in life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially, and Aidan passes his time fantasising about being the futuristic Continue Reading

  Impressive though CGI often is, it’s a common complaint in many blockbusters that the special effects can often overshadow the storyline (assuming if there is a meaningful one, of course) with more attention to the all the visual accessories than to the characters or the plot. While that’s certainly Continue Reading

  There is, you may be surprised to learn, no firm definition on what a short film actually is. While there is a consensus that it is not as long as a feature film, something I would have thought would have been patently obvious if you have watched any of Continue Reading

  At first glance there may not seem to be much of a connection between Divergent, the first film in a planned cinematic trilogy based on the much loved young adult series by Veronica Roth, and one of the most famous quotes about the Vietnam War. But as the story Continue Reading

  Emmet (voiced by Chris Pratt), the delightfully uncertain heart and soul of The LEGO Movie, is a thoroughly unremarkable construction worker. Which is, of course, exactly as it should be, in a film that happily takes just about every trope and cliche of the fantasy world, and with more Continue Reading