My love for Firefly is damn near legendary. (OK it’s not but that makes for a dramatic opening sentence and so shall it stay.) I love the show beyond words, as well the constant tributes paid to it by fervent dedicated fellow Browncoats such as Joey Spiotto who has Continue Reading
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Movie review: Kubo and the Two Strings
If you must blink … do it now American-based production house Laika has firmly established itself over the course of the last seven years and four luminously good feature films such as Coraline and The Boxtrolls, as a master storyteller of the highest order. Their gift for enchanting films Continue Reading
What’s up Doc?! The origins of Bugs Bunny that’s what!
SNAPSHOT He doesn’t seem like a character from the nineteen forties. His anarchic gender-bending wiseass personality is pretty progressive even by today’s standards and he’s aged so well because he isn’t locked in any one specific pool of relatability. Something like the Flintstones can be revived again and again Continue Reading
Movie review: Truman
Losing someone to death is a harrowing experience by any estimation. So harrowing in fact that Tomás (Javier Cámara), married and living in Canada, and one of the central characters in director Cesc Gay’s Truman, has strenuously resisted visiting his terminally-ailing actor best friend Julián (Ricardo Darín) in Madrid Continue Reading
Life upends spectacularly in the highly-emotional Manchester by the Sea
SNAPSHOT After the death of his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler), Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is shocked to learn that Joe has made him sole guardian of his nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges). Taking leave of his job, Lee reluctantly returns to Manchester-by-the-Sea to care for Patrick, a spirited 15-year-old, Continue Reading
Mars: National Geographic takes us on a breathtakingly expansive journey
SNAPSHOT The year is 2033, and mankind’s first manned mission to Mars is about to become reality. This is the story of how we make Mars home, told by the pioneers making it possible. (synopsis via YouTube) There are a lot of people trying to get to Mars at Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: A Love Story that urges us to cultivate a better world
I am not usually a fan of promoting brand campaigns since creative though they might be, they are still, in the end, an ad designed to sell product. But there is something about this ad for Chipotle, which frankly could use all the help it can get in the Continue Reading
Hollywood or Bus! reminds us to never take public transport with Hollywood stars
Generally when you bring two things you like together the result is usually quite wonderful. Peanut butter and honey (or jelly if you’re American). Wine and Friday nights. Lorelai and Rory Gilmore. Buses and Hollywood stars. Wait what? Well think about it, we like buses. They us places we Continue Reading
Movie review: Sausage Party
Prepare to see your kitchen as a killing field, the supermarket as a place of crushed and broken dreams and takeaway pizza as an exercise in violent dismemberment. For Sausage Party, Seth Rogen’s gloriously foulmouthed, absolutely hilarious tale of relgiously-devoted sentient food that discover their faith may have more Continue Reading
KAPOW! New animated 1960s-era Batman film is on its way
SPLATT! SPLOSH! BIFF! Holy past and present colliding Batman! Let’s face it – if you grew up in the ‘60s or ‘70s, the odds of watching some pretty quirky TV programs were pretty high. And so it was that as young boy growing in the 1970s one of the Continue Reading