One of humanity’s great contradictions has, and I suspect, always will be, our ability to dream big but never quite deliver on all the glitteringly-promising hopes and dreams. It’s not that we don’t get there at all; take a look around at the technological prowess of the world and you Continue Reading
Mary Poppins quits! Funny or Die and Kristen Bell have fun with P. L. Travers iconic character
It won’t be immediately obvious from Disney’s 1964 classic Mary Poppins, although Julie Andrews is no pushover in the role, but P. L. Travers much-loved creation is quite the no-nonsense nanny. Caring and dedicated to the welfare of her charges she may be, but she also not inclined to suffer Continue Reading
Up and down: Pixar releases the storyboard for the impossibly romantic classic film’s opening sequence
It is, without any doubt whatsoever, one of the most heartbreakingly-beautiful, touchingly-romantic sequences in cinema, animated or otherwise. The opening 10 minutes of Up, Pixar’s tale of love, hope, dreams and second chances, where we see Carl and Ellie plan for the best but end up caught up, like all Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Hedgehog’s Home
SNAPSHOT Hedgehog’s Home is an animated Film by based on the classic story by Branko Copic, a writer from former Yugoslavia, It’s a warm and universal tale that reminds us there truly is no place like home.(synopsis via Laughing Squid) I have to say it’s not the first thing I Continue Reading
Movie review: If Beale Street Could Talk
The idea that a particular geographic place can carry great cultural importance or emotional weight for a specific group of people would make sense for most of us. After all, we all find ourselves drawn, singularly or as a group, to places that speak to us or shape us in Continue Reading
Is this the real thing? It is … welcome to the Bo-Meme-Ean Rhapsody video
SNAPSHOT Welcome to the Official Bo-Meme-Ean Rhapsody fan video!. Initially, I just collected all the images and captioned them (lyrics by Freddie Mercury), and put them in order. But when I made the image folder public & shareable on Facebook, it went viral and exploded in about 3 days. My Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “Saints of Imperfection” (S2, E5 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A REALLY NICE RECIPE FOR MUSHROOM RECIPE … WAIT, NO, AS YOU WERE … Apart from its idealistic view of the future, which given current trends looks so Pollyanna-ish that you could be forgiven for thinking we’ll blow ourselves up long before the Vulcans stop by for “Hey, you got warp!” Continue Reading
Forbidden snacks: How popcorn went from forbidden to the darling of cinema bottomlines
SNAPSHOT As popcorn’s wealth circulated, theaters realized they needed to sell concessions without the street vendors as the middleman. The theaters are selling popcorn, candy, and soda. Things are going great until World War II came around and the United States entered a sugar shortage. Sugar exporters were cut off Continue Reading
Author Annalee Newitz takes us on an alternate adventure to The Future of Another Timeline
SNAPSHOT A dark thriller from Annalee Newitz about the lengths we’ll go to protect the ones we love. In a modern-day United States that’s just a step away from our own, time travel is possible. But a secret war is brewing over access to history. Tess is a geologist desperately Continue Reading
Mass of movie trailers: Aladdin, Juanita, Tolkien, The Hustle, Yesterday
INTRO ALADDIN SNAPSHOT The Aladdin cast includes: Two-time Oscar® nominee Will Smith (Ali, Men in Black) as the Genie who has the power to grant three wishes to whoever possesses his magic lamp; Mena Massoud (Amazon’s Jack Ryan) as Aladdin, the hapless but lovable street rat who is smitten with Continue Reading