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
First impressions: Dark Matter
If you were to pick one place, and one place only, to wake up, devoid of all your memories and sense of self, there’s a high likelihood it wouldn’t be aboard a largely powered-down, dead-among-the-stars spaceship whose only sign of life, and the term should be used loosely, 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
You can help but be touched by the story of Ricky & Doris: An Unconventional Friendship in New York City. With Puppets
SNAPSHOT Ricky Syers is an off-beat 50 year old street performer who found his calling as a puppeteer after a lifetime of manual labor. While performing in New York City’s Washington Square Park, he met Doris Diether, an 86 year old community activist. They became friends and he made Continue Reading
Bring Him Home: Matt Damon fights for survival in The Martian (poster + trailers)
SNAPSHOT During a manned mission to Mars, Astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet. With only meager supplies, he must draw upon his ingenuity, Continue Reading
Book yourself some laughs with Jeff Wysaski’s series of parody bookstore titles
Let’s be honest – who of us hasn’t walked into the bathroom and wondered what the hell that reflective slab of wall is in front of us, in which is imprisoned an unsettlingly eerie likeness of ourselves? Hands up! Oh, just me? Right, moving on … But wait, you must have Continue Reading