SNAPSHOT “Every child comes into the world full of promise, and none more so than Chappie: he is gifted, special, a prodigy. Like any child, Chappie will come under the influence of his surroundings – some good, some bad – and he will rely on his heart and soul Continue Reading
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Movie review: Paper Souls (Les Âmes de papier) #AFFFF2015
Grief is a most peculiar thing. While its effects are reasonably universal no matter who you are, how it manifests itself is a different as each person cursed to live through its torturous, soul-eviscerating cycle of loss, sadness, regret and loneliness, an unpalatable reality of being that Belgian director Vincent Lannoo captures in a charmingly Continue Reading
Movie review: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Time is a cruel mistress/master/old man with a scythe and not much in the way of new opportunities past a certain point, an often less than palatable fact of life that formed the centrepiece of the charming British comedy with a message The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012). In Continue Reading
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious goes death metal: Mary Poppins as you’ve never heard her before
It will come as no surprise to anyone that movies often significantly depart from the books upon which they are based. That doesn’t necessarily mean they are a diminished form of the story; simply different. Some authors, however such as J. D. Salinger and Roald Dahl, most certainly thought the movie adaptations Continue Reading
Movie review: Queens and Cowboys #mgff2015
Food, water and shelter aside, one of the most basic needs a person can have is the one to belong. Whether we are conscious of it or not, or even admit to its existence, all of us are looking for a group of likeminded people we can call family, Continue Reading
Velociraptors on motorcycles! This Jurassic Park parody video is pre-hysterically funny
I have no doubt that the upcoming Jurassic World film, which features Chris Pratt as velociraptor-wrangling, Indian Jones-arua emitting, dinosaur DNA-fiddling averse hero-in-the-making Owen Grady will be a tour deforce of edge-of-your-seat prehistoric thrill-making. And I am also fully convinced that the dinosaurs that will fill the film, from said Continue Reading
You know we can’t Let It Go: new short Frozen Fever gets a trailer worth holding on to
As you may have noticed if you haven’t been trapped under an ice floe for the past 15 months or so (and possibly still even then), Frozen, Disney’s music-filled, visually-stunning, heartwarming take on Hans Christian Anderson’s fairytale “The Snow Queen”, is a BIG DEAL. I mean, grossed $1.2bn [insert Dr. Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: Félix And Meira (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT In Maxime Giroux’s latest feature, an unusual romance blossoms between two lost souls who inhabit the same neighbourhood but vastly different worlds. Meira (Hadas Yaron) is a young Hasidic Jewish mother in Montreal’s Mile End district who secretly rebels against her faith by listening to soul music and Continue Reading
Movie review: A Most Violent Year
The clock is ticking, ticking loud and fast in J. C. Chandor’s slow-burning tale of one man’s pursuit of the American Dream, A Most Violent Year. It is 1981, statistically one of the most violent in New York’s history, and aspiring businessman, Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) is intent on Continue Reading
Movie review: Lilting #queerscreen
Anyone who has ever experienced any form of profound loss will know all too well that grief is a peculiar, never ending lament with a thousand different reminders everywhere you turn. The truth of this painful reality is authentically conveyed in starkly moving, intimate terms in Hong Khaou’s largely assured Continue Reading