SNAPSHOT Rock The Kasbah is the story of Richie Lanz, a rock manager with a golden ear and a taste for talent, who has seen better times. When he takes his last remaining client on a USO tour of Afghanistan, she gets cold feet and leaves him penniless and Continue Reading
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Goofy gets his motoring Jekyll and Hyde on in the 1950 animated short Motor Mania
Goofy has always been my favourite Disney character. There’s something incredibly appealing about his innate, well, goofiness, an innocent, fun likeability that makes him somehow more relatable for me than say Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck. First appearing in Mickey’s revue in 1932, Goofy, described by the good folks Continue Reading
This blog post will self-destruct in … 5 … 4 … Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation debuts new trailer + character posters
SNAPSHOT “Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate – an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the IMF. “Directed by Christopher McQuarrie and produced by Tom Cruise, J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk. The executive producers are David Continue Reading
“It’s the Little Red-Haired Girl, Charlie Brown!”: New trailer for The Peanuts Movie
SNAPSHOT Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the rest of the beloved Peanuts gang make their big-screen debut, like theyve never been seen before, in state of the art 3D animation. Charlie Brown, the worlds most beloved underdog, embarks upon an epic and heroic quest, while his best pal, Continue Reading
Movie review: Inside Out
Have you ever been to see a movie and felt like the filmmaker has somehow managed to peer into your very heart and soul, eerily and yet delightfully channeling everything you’ve ever seen, felt or heard into their cinematic creation? That kind of emotional universality, of readily identifiable insight Continue Reading
May imagination be with you: Craig Davison’s Star Wars art reawakens the child in each of us
I learnt a long time ago how powerful imagination can be. A budding writer from the moment I realised two words could come together with devastatingly brilliant effect, leaving wonderment, thrills, excitement, fear, adventure and a whole host of other authentically real human emotional reactions in their wake, I have Continue Reading
Movie review: The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (La mafia uccide solo d’estate)
Ask the average lovestruck moviegoer to suggest the ideal location for a rom-com and you’d likely be peppered with Cupid-friendly locales like Paris and New York, Koh Samui and Greek Islands, and a thousand chocolate-filled, red rose-strewn places in-between. The odds are pretty good though they wouldn’t nominate Palermo, Sicily as the ideal sunset-drenched Continue Reading
Movie review: People, Places, Things #sff2015
We all know life can be a messy, complicated business. But knowing that about life, and actually having having it get all messy and complicated, with no real warning, are two completely differently things as graphic novelist and would-be published author Will Henry (Germaine Clement, Flight of the Conchords) discovers in Continue Reading
The world is ending AGAIN in Dawn of the Planet of the Zombies and the Giant Killer Plants on Some Serious Acid
Cancel all your plans people! The world is ending and this time it’s at the hands of zombies and giant helicopter-felling killer plants who don’t seem inclined to share the planet with those of us still living and non-botanical in nature. It’s all been brilliantly documented in this hilariously Continue Reading
Zootopia teaser trailer: Like nothing you’ve seen be-fur
SNAPSHOT The modern mammal metropolis of Zootopia is a city like no other. Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it’s a melting pot where animals from every environment live together—a place where no matter what you are, from the biggest elephant to the smallest Continue Reading