If you were looking for a quick and easy way to describe director Paul Feig’s latest comedy blockbuster, Spy, and who doesn’t like a pithy tagline, you could do worse than calling it a reverse Get Smart. Embodying much of the spirit of Mel Brooks’ 1960s sitcom satirisation of Continue Reading
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Every legend has a beginning: New Pan movie trailer is a visual delight
SNAPSHOT From director Joe Wright comes “Pan,” a live-action feature presenting a wholly original adventure about the beginnings of the beloved characters created by J.M. Barrie.Peter (Levi Miller) is a mischievous 12-year-old boy with an irrepressible rebellious streak, but in the bleak London orphanage where he has lived his Continue Reading
Movie review: Mad Max Fury Road
Humanity is manifestly, irretrievably broken. That much is clear within seconds of the bleak opening of Mad Max: Fury Road when the eponymous hero, staring out into the burnt orange desert surrounds that spread out remorselessly in every direction, acknowledges that the Earth is broken, humanity is broken, and Continue Reading
Simon Pegg will do Absolutely Anything to save the world (trailer + posters)
SNAPSHOT A group of aliens bestow upon a random Earthling (Simon Pegg) the ability to make absolutely anything happen, to see if he uses the power for good. If he uses it for evil, the Earth will be destroyed. (synopsis via Tribute) Monty Python have reunited in a movie! Continue Reading
Movie review: When Marnie Was There (Omoide no Mānī)
As Anna Sasaki (Sara Takatsuki) knows only too well, it is never easy being the outsider. Remarking in the first luminously-rendered scenes of When Marnie Was There, the light, colour and attention to detail confirming that Studio Ghibli’s breathtakingly beautiful artistic trademarks are very much in place for what may Continue Reading
To the world beyond: Poster Posse’s magnificent alternative posters for Tomorrowland
SNAPSHOT Tomorrowland is directed by Brad Bird (of The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol) who co-wrote the script with Damon Lindelof (Star Trek Into Darkness, Prometheus). Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen (Britt Robertson) bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor (George Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: One film. Two images. Three amazing posters (and then some)
It takes a huge amount of skill to describe a movie in just two instantly recognisable frames but talented Swedish artist and graphic designer Viktor Hertz has managed it with his series of pictograms, an art form with which he has a particular affinity. Created by the graphic designer Continue Reading
Movie review: Ex Machina
It’s often ben said that humanity is its own worst enemy, given that our collective shortcomings and flaws often coming close to outweighing our propensity for innovation, advancement and renewal. It’s a thesis explored with gusto, tension and an artistic film noir aesthetic in Alex Garland’s (28 Days Later, Never Let Me Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Seth Boyden’s delightful animated film An Object at Rest
Time takes its toll on us all. Body parts sag, all those things we thought we’d get done don’t get done, or at least not in the way we envisaged, and we find ourselves tumbled along by life to places we never ever thought we’d be. It’d not necessarily Continue Reading
Movie review: Clouds of Sils Maria
It is truth well-recognised that time passes quickly. What is often not so well recognised is that as it moves onward, ever onward, it doesn’t do so in a clean, uncomplicated way that leaves us unscathed; rather it leaves behind part of who we were which inevitably merges with who Continue Reading