28 Years Later (2025): The Plot: Twenty-eight years after the “Rage virus” swept the United Kingdom (and no other countries, retconning the ending of 28 Weeks Later) a community of survivors has cobbled together a life on Lindisfarne, a small island off the coast of northeast England. Twelve-year-old Spike (Alfie Williams) accompanies his father Jamie…
When Will Arnett’s braggadocious Dark Knight grapple-lined into the spotlight in 2013’s perfect The Lego Movie, it was a refreshing contrast to the deadly serious Bats fresh off the heels of Christopher Nolan’s trilogy. In the same way that Adam West’s delightfully earnest and square caped crusader was the perfect parody of the Batman of…
I have been living in Japan for about three years and I am very much in love with this country’s culture. In my time here, I have tried to pick up various Japanese traditional crafts – one of them includes playing the shamisen, which is a three-stringed guitar-like instrument. I have been practicing the shamisen…
Stop motion animation has so much potential in its use for horror, as Tim Burton and Laika have shown us their films. Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit, puts its stop motion animation to a different use, for a more comedic and quirky, though nonetheless Halloween-y film. This is the second time that Wallace…
A Bigger Splash (2015) The Plot: Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton), a world-famous rock star, and her documentarian boyfriend Paul De Smedt (Matthias Schoenaerts) are enjoying a private vacation/medical recovery session after Marianne severely damages her vocal chords in concert. Their Mediterranean lovers’ retreat meets an early end when an old friend, Harry Hawkes (Ralph Fiennes),…
The final moments of Skyfall promised exciting things for Bond fans. After three movie saga exploring the making, unmaking, and remaking of James Bond as a man and agent, the end of Skyfall ushered in a return to the classic Bond and the elements most associated with the franchise. 2015’s Spectre, released last week in the US and…
So, about those Oscar nominations… We go through this every year, and mostly the Oscars fail to interest. This year is no different. Nothing all that interesting happens at the Oscars. Perhaps the biggest snubs were in the Best Leading Actor category, which was an admittedly tight race this year. The nominees are Michael Keaton…
Rooster Illusion 