If there’s one thing that Hollywood, and in this case director Garry Marshall, likes more, well quite possibly than mothers themselves, it’s a good old, well-used formula. Worry not about well-rounded characters, authenticity of any kind and emotions that even come close to ringing true; no, what you need Continue Reading
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You know his name: Welcome back Jason Bourne! (Trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Matt Damon returns to his most iconic role in “Jason Bourne.” Paul Greengrass, the director of “The Bourne Supremacy” and “The Bourne Ultimatum,” once again joins Damon for the next chapter of Universal Pictures’ Bourne franchise, which finds the CIA’s most lethal former operative drawn out of the Continue Reading
Looking for Mr. Right? Be careful what you wish for
SNAPSHOT Mr. Right, written by Landis and directed by Paco Cabezas, stars the ever-talented Sam Rockwell and the ever-likeable Anna Kendrick. Kendrick plays the quirky Martha who gets her heart broken after catching her boyfriend cheating on her. She seems to give up on finding a good man until Continue Reading
Movie review: Midnight Special
If you have ever wondered how completely and to what ends a father could believe in and love his son, then look no further than Mike Nichols’ latest masterpiece, Midnight Special, for the answer. While the film is ostensibly about a remarkable 8 year old boy Alton Meyer (Jaeden Continue Reading
Imagining Zootopia: What it took to make this amazing animated film
SNAPSHOT What did it take to bring the world of ‘Zootopia’ to life? Fusion spent two years with the production team of Disney’s smash hit film. In ‘Imagining Zootopia,’ you will travel with the team to Africa to explore the animals in their natural habitat and find out how Continue Reading
Movie review: The Jungle Book
It is a rare and wondrous thing indeed to be transported by a film so completely far away from the everyday grind that you almost forget you are sitting in a cinema watching it all unfold. But that miraculous feat is accomplished within seconds of Jon Favreau’s delightful live Continue Reading
The short and the short of it film festival : 3 quirky animated films with unlikely heroes
Short films are a wonderful thing. They allow you to enter someone’s world for a brief point in time, catch a ride on the narrative of their life for a stop or two and then leap, wiser, enthralled and amused for having met them. The really good ones, and Continue Reading
Most Unusual Marvel: Doctor Strange and Suicide Squad
Marvel likes its narrative templates. I get it – if I was pumping as many well-made, largely (though not always – see Avengers: Age of Ultron) I’d probably stick to a template as often as I could too. After all the fan boys and fan girls love it, it Continue Reading
It’s a Hanna-Barbera Universe and you and Scooby Doo are just living in it
As you might have noticed, cinematic universes are very much a thing these days. Marvel has one, a very successful one at that which is now entering its third phase, DC wants one but seems unable to make it work on the big screen as well they do on Continue Reading
Movie review: Rams (Hrútar)
Having the bottom ripped of your world isn’t a pleasant experience for anyone. But when you’re a sheep farmer out in a remote valley of Iceland, and your world is tending to your herd, all of whom you know by name and look after with commensurate affection, then their Continue Reading