Movies

  It is always an interesting exercise watching the movie adaptation of a just-read book. While literary adaptations are always fraught undertakings with rusted-on readers often holding widely divergent opinions on what should or shouldn’t be included to the producers, the effect is further amplified when the book itself is still Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Suicide Squad is a DC Comics movie from Warner Bros, directed by David Ayer (End of Watch, Sabotage, Fury) from a script by David Ayer based on the comic books. Will Smith is Deadshot, Joel Kinnaman is Rick Flagg, Margot Robbie is Harley Quinn, Jared Leto is Joker, Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT NEW is a 16-minute drama about an elderly couple who, after dying in the 21st century, are cryonically preserved. Many decades later they are revived, awakening to find their health and youth totally restored. Together they face the joys and challenges of a second life in the distant Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT In this fifth fully animated feature collaboration, the studios which brought you Despicable Me present a fast-paced, hilarious thrill ride following the secret lives that domesticated pets lead each day while their humans are away at work or school. The film stars Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, Continue Reading

  SURPRISE! That’s not something you often hear when it comes to new movie projects; birthday parties and unexpected gifts yes, movies, no. And it’s especially so in our hyper-connected age where it’s enough for an influential blogger or industry insider to hear a movie producer murmur about a new project in Continue Reading

  Humanity has a natural predilection for justice. It’s why so much of our storytelling pivots around the idea that justice is not only possible, through fair means or foul, but desirable, that the idea of someone or something such as an institution getting away with something is unacceptable and Continue Reading

  Cats and Star Wars characters together? Surely that is a combination made in heaven! Well, if you’re a Star Wars-obsessed, cat-loving guy like me it is. Two talented Disney feature animation artists, Griz and Norm Lemay have seen fit to bring these two groups together and the resulting artwork, Continue Reading

  There are a great many things to love about Pixar. Their ability to conjure up a fully-formed world whether it’s a child’s room or a facility where monsters go out to scare children and harvest their fright energy. Their attention to detail, their rich characters who leap off the Continue Reading

  We see it again and again. A new technology comes along sweeping all before it, and we’re breathlessly told by visionaries with rose-tinted glasses on it and a glass half-full in their hand, that the world will be a far better place when it has supplanted all those pesky Continue Reading