In this flawed worlds of ours, justice is an often elusive outcome. While we speak loftily of it, praising its many virtues and confirming its importance, it often falls foul of humanity’s propensity to entertain the lesser angels of its nature ahead of those of a more laudable nature. Complicating Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT The Good Dinosaur asks the question: What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? Pixar Animation Studios takes you on an epic journey into the world of dinosaurs where an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT American Ultra is a fast-paced action comedy about Mike (Jesse Eisenberg), a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe (Kristen Stewart), is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of Continue Reading

  Imagine if you will that you suddenly found yourself desperately short of time, required by some inexplicable deadline to watch all the films of Cameron Crowe’s oft-charming, many times insightful cinematic output and report on it in the shortest time possible. What would you do? What would you do … Would Continue Reading

  Keeping your childlike sense of wonder and boundless optimism into adulthood can be a tall order, especially when, like Frank Walker (George Clooney), you have good reason to discard it favour of well-worn cynicism and paranoid distrust. But as the Brad Bird-directed Tomorrowland reminds us over and over in Continue Reading

  Who wouldn’t want to stay in The Grand Overlook Hotel indeed? Well quite possibly everyone really, particularly if a quite mad, pre-frozen to death in the maze Jack Torrance was bashing his way into your room with an axe  while screaming “Here’s Johnny!” But what if that same hotel also Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley band of misfit teachers in the fight of their lives. Cooties is co-directed by Jonathan Milott & Cary Murnion, making their feature directing Continue Reading