SNAPSHOT An interstellar Jekyll and Hyde, Arrowhead tells the tale of survival set amongst the distant stars. Kye is a prisoner of war caught between two armies that he doesn’t believe in. When offered an opportunity for freedom, Kye sets out on one last mission only to become stranded Continue Reading
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The short and the short of it: Wire Cutters by Jack Anderson shows the importance of robotic teamwork
Once upon a time on a faraway desolate planet, two mining robots meet. While the meeting of these two souls, albeit artificially birthed ones, bodes well for companionable cooperation, things don’t quite work out as you might expect. The smaller more Wall-E-esque of the two supplies eagerly leads the bigger Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The force is strong with this office Star Wars Post-It art
Much as I hate to disparage the dedicated interior design professionals who toil to come up with the office environments in which we spend much our walking hours, the truth is most corporate places of work could do with a little more pep and pizzazz. Or Star Wars. Specifically, Continue Reading
Movie review: Maze Runner The Scorch Trials
Given it is a part of a recent cinematic tsunami of Young Adult dystopian films, it won’t surprise you to learn that there are zombies in the Wes Ball-directed Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, the sequel to 2014’s The Maze Runner. Lots and lots of seriously aggrieved, Flare Plague-created, fastmoving, Continue Reading
Be prepared! Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put their scouting skills to the test to Continue Reading
“Well here’s another nice (dancing) mess you’ve gotten me into!” – Laurel and Hardy dance to Morrissey’s “Hairdresser on Fire”
I have long been a fan of classic comedy duo Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, known of course as Laurel and Hardy, who were popular from the late 1920s through to the mid-1940s. Way back in the dim dark days of the mid-1970s, Australia’s national broadcaster ABC used to broadcast a Continue Reading
Movie review: Dope
Malcolm Adekanbi (Shameik Moore) is a young man who likes to defy expectations. And in writer/director Rick Famuyiwa’s Dope, a hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Malcolm and his geeky besties, Jib (Tony Revolori) and Diggy (Kiersey Clemons) certainly have quite a few expectations to defy. For one Continue Reading
Life is about knowing how to take a hit: Ashby (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT “Ed Wallis (Nat Wolff) and his spirited single mom (Sarah Silverman) are new in town. At school, Ed struggles to fit in. He secretly desires to make the football team although the jocks disapprove, and he connects with only one other student, brainy Eloise (Emma Roberts). Given an Continue Reading
Movie review: Ricki and the Flash
Following your dreams is one thing. Following your dreams, moving to California, abandoning your family in Indiana who grow to resent you (mostly), and finding your dreams aren’t quite what they’re cracked up to be; ah, well, that is quite another. It’s a lesson Ricki Rendazzo aka one time Continue Reading
Movie review: Mission Impossible Rogue Nation
Ladies and gentlemen, this is how you begin an espionage action movie. Particularly one as gloriously over the top, in all the best possible ways, as Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, the latest instalment in the classic TV show-cum -movie franchise that literally shows no sign of slowing down anytime Continue Reading