SNAPSHOT Since it hit theaters we started building this episode. Some How It Should Have Ended’s take longer than others and this one was one of those longer ones. One because there are so many characters in this movie we had to actually cut out some of our ideas. Continue Reading
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Hello man’s best friend: Go way WAY back with Alpha
SNAPSHOT An epic adventure set in the last Ice Age. Europe, 20,000 years ago. While on his first hunt with his tribe’s most elite group, a young man is injured and left for dead. Awakening to find himself broken and alone — he must learn to survive and navigate Continue Reading
Life is quirky and miserable and just plain weird says Lemon
SNAPSHOT Lemon: a person or thing that proves to be defective, imperfect, or unsatisfactory. Isaac Lachmann is a dud. Isaac Lachmann is 40. Isaac Lachmann is a man in free fall immobilised by mediocrity. His career is going nowhere. His girlfriend of ten years is leaving him. And his Continue Reading
Wes Anderson and the fine art of cooking up an artistic storm
Cooking is in. Probably because eating, which has never really gone out of style because #starvation, remains very firmly in. And since cooking is in, in this digital age, that means cooking tutorials are in. But what if the likes of Wes Anderson or Quentin Tarantino joined the lifestyle Continue Reading
Movie review: The Big Sick
There was time, lo many days, nay years ago, when romantic comedies burst forth upon the cinematic firmament, fully-formed, delightfully-engaging, possessed of a fairytale-esque romantic sensibility and a sense that life, for all its many banal obstacles and nasty stumbling blocks, could actually be something quite magical. The cynic Continue Reading
Humans, elves, orcs and fairies oh my! Bright has them all
SNAPSHOT Set in an alternate present-day where humans, orcs, elves and fairies have been coexisting since the beginning of time, this action-thriller directed by David Ayer (Suicide Squad, End of Watch, writer of Training Day) follows two cops from very different backgrounds. Ward, a human (Will Smith), and Jakoby, Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: It’s time for your favourite character to put pedal to metal
I am not a car person. Not even a little bit. But the only sphere in which I will make an exception for vehicles, and really just about anything (bar pretty anything the extreme right advocates), is pop culture where transportation of all kinds has long been associated with Continue Reading
Movie review: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
If there is one thing you know to the very marrow of your movie-loving bone walking into a Luc Besson film, it’s that it will be gorgeously, extravagantly, luxuriously and immersively imaginative. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets lives up to this justifiable expectation, delivering up a Continue Reading
How *jolly*! The Nightmare Before Christmas gets a comic-based sequel and emoji retelling
SNAPSHOT “From the creative team of DJ Milky and Studio DICE, the book will be released as full-color floppies, then collected into graphic novels, and then finally collected in manga-sized editions.” (synopsis via Bleeding Cool) Can you ever really get enough of Tim Burton’s inspired piece of festive storytelling The Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The endangered voice of the Sun Bear
SNAPSHOT Sun Bear imaginatively embodies the life of a sun bear and discusses the issues of poaching and habitat loss due to palm oil in Borneo from the bear’s perspective. It’s all too easy these days to look at the state of the world and see only a giant Continue Reading