Movies

  While grandly romantic gestures like impossibly large bunches of flowers for no reason, a surprise marriage proposal at a beloved’s favourite bookstore and heart-stirring declarations of commitment on major anniversaries are usually what gets love all its fantastically positive PR, it’s what happens in the little moments, in the nitty-gritty of every Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT A cryptic message from Bond’s past sends him on a trail to uncover a sinister organisation. While M battles political forces to keep the secret service alive, Bond peels back the layers of deceit to reveal the terrible truth behind SPECTRE. (official synopsis via Screenrant) I have an Continue Reading

  Love is a complicated emotion. On the one hand, it is everything the Bible says it is – patient, gentle, kind, protective, trusting, hopeful – and yet for all those unarguably positive characteristics, its outworking can also be angry, argumentative, regretful, mournful, frustrating. You see? Not an easy thing Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Ella, a beautiful woman tired of unwanted attention from men, strolls through a carnival while reading a book. A barker talks her into trying the bumper cars, but the result is a perilous accident that leaves Ella trapped. A stranger, the handsome and muscular Jake, rescues her, and Continue Reading

  SNAPSHOT Paper Towns is directed by Jake Schreier (Robot & Frank) with a script by Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber (both of (500) Days of Summer and The Fault in Our Stars) When Margo Roth Spiegelman (Cara Delvingne) beckons Quentin Jacobsen (Nat Wolff) in the middle of the Continue Reading

  When we first meet Chappie, one of a growing number of seemingly indestructible weaponised robots or “scouts” being rolled out to augment the flesh and blood police of crime-ridden Johannesburg, he is not leading what you might call a charmed existence. So unlucky is the hapless droid, who has Continue Reading

  I know it often feels like this is Bond, James Bond’s world and we’re all just living in it with rather less panache than he does (and nowhere near enough martinis, shaken, not stirred), but I have lately had the feeling, the Bond franchise’s renaissance under the dashing Daniel Continue Reading

  It’s hard to imagine that a colourfully individualistic member of an invasive technologically highly-advanced but socially-awkward alien race, who have just picked Earth as their new home (no, humanity, as usual, was not consulted), and a small girl sheltering with her cat in an unnamed city from said extra Continue Reading

  Who among us hasn’t ever wished that the characters on the big screen in front of us would leap into our comparatively less than magical lives and make them a little more exciting than the everyday reality we’re used to? We may have perfectly wonderful, functional, highly enjoyable but Continue Reading