SNAPSHOT Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey (Alison Brie) and Jake (Jason Sudeikis) meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a Continue Reading
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Film review: Minions
Which supporting player, looking on enviously as the star of the show receives all the applause, accolades and kudos, hasn’t wondered when they will get their, naturally well-deserved, moment to shine? While it’s hard to know definitively if the Minions, the banana-loving sidekicks to reformed villain Gru in the Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Poster Posse’s imaginative take on Inside Out
Inside Out, Pixar’s latest transcendent animation triumph, takes us, in the most gloriously poignant and colourful way possible, into the mind of an 11 year old girl named Riley, who is struggling to cope with some pretty major changes in her hitherto untroubled young life, precipitated by her family’s move from Continue Reading
Movie review: Terminator Genisys
Movie franchises have a curiously complicated relationship with the moviegoing public. While there is an almost universal desire to see new instalments as quickly as the slow-moving development behemoth of Hollywood will allow – the near religious mania over the upcoming new instalment in the Star Wars saga is evidence of this Continue Reading
Bibliophilia: Wes Anderson’s wonderful world of cinematic books
You only have to see one Wes Anderson film to know how literate his filmmaking style is and to realise how much his obvious love of literature influences pretty much every scene that makes it onto the screen. Here is a man not only in possession of some wondrously Continue Reading
Ta-dah! A trio of animation trailers (Kung Fu Panda 3, The Secret Life of Pets, Hotel Transylvania 2)
That giggling, red food colouring-powered sound you hear is my inner child doing cartwheels at the the thought of yet more animated films coming our way in the not too distant future (if you consider late 2016 the “not too distant future” which the way time is currently racing past, Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: What Cheer?’s musical exploration of the five stages of grieving
Losing someone you love deeply is never, ever easy. No matter how much positive thinkers encourage us to celebrate life, look on the bright side of things, and believe life will go on and be even better than it was before our great loss, the reality is a good Continue Reading
“It’s just time for us to be in the real world”: The moving trailer for Boulevard, Robin Williams’ final performance
SNAPSHOT In Boulevard, the routine of everyday life quietly peels away to reveal the struggle of a loving husband in conflict with his inner-self. Nolan Mack (Williams) and his wife Joy (Baker) wake up under the same roof each morning, their separate bedrooms underscoring the disparate worlds they’re living Continue Reading
Whistle while you work: Todrick Hall sings his way through Disney’s musical catalogue
If you’re a parent, or frankly anyone closely related to or looking after a child under five – guilty as charged; I’m the happy uncle to four adorable nieces and nephews – there is a better than average chance the only song that has been lodged in your earworm since about Continue Reading
Z For Zachariah: Love and lust in a time of apocalypse
SNAPSHOT In the wake of a nuclear war, a young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers the most astonishing sight of her life: another human being. A distraught scientist, he’s nearly been driven mad by radiation Continue Reading