A boy goes on a quest for his father’s samurai armour in Kubo and the Two Strings. Kubo (Art Parkinson) is a boy who lives with his mother in a small village, where he tells stories to the villagers about his samurai father Hanzo, using magical origami controlled by Kubo’s shamisen. One day Kubo ignores…
The classic characters created by Charles M. Schulz head to the big screen in The Peanuts Movie. Charlie Brown is an awkward boy, whose most trusted companion is his beagle Snoopy. Together they hang out with Charlie’s friends Linus, Lucy, Schroeder, Peppermint Patty, Marcie, Franklin, Pig-Pen, and Charlie’s sister Sally. When a Little Red-Haired Girl moves…
Those lovable yellow henchmen get their own movie in Minions. Minions have existed since the dawn of time, with their primary goal being to serve the most despicable of masters. Having caused the inadvertent deaths of all their previous masters, the Minions are on the bring of depression in their Antarctic hideaway. This results in…
The President of the United States relies on a 13 year old Finnish boy for survival in the action/adventure Big Game. Oskari (Onni Tommila) is a boy in Northern Finland, who is sent out into the wilderness on a coming-of-age hunting trip. He comes across the escape pod of US President William Allen Moore (Samuel L….
The President of the United States relies on a 13 year old Finnish boy for survival in the action/adventure Big Game. Oskari (Onni Tommila) is a boy in Northern Finland, who is sent out into the wilderness on a coming-of-age hunting trip. He comes across the escape pod of US President William Allen Moore (Samuel…
The heroes in a half shell are reintroduced for a new generation in this Michael Bay-produced reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. New York City is being terrorized by a criminal organization known as the Foot Clan, which are lead by the armoured warrior The Shredder (Tohoru Masamune). Young reporter April O’Neil (Megan Fox) is…
Indie Spotlight is a series focusing on reviews of independent films This is a repost of a review originally posted during TIFF13, under the film’s original name The Station The Austrian sci-fi/horror film Blood Glacier focuses on a team of scientists on a Climate Research Base in the German Alps. Lead by Janek (Gerhard Liebmann),…
One year after jointly winning the 74th annual Hunger Games, Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) go on a Victor’s Tour of the districts of Panem, where Katniss has become a symbol for a slowly brewing rebellion against the Capital. While Katniss is disturbed by the increasingly violent behaviour of the “Peacekeepers,”…
While most would automatically assume The Bourne Legacy is a reboot of the Bourne franchise, it is more a side-story that takes place during and after the events of The Bourne Ultimatum. It turns out that Jason Bourne and the Treadstone and Blackbriar programs that created him were just a small peace of a larger network of…
That fact that Hugo is directed by none other than Martin Scorsese was probably the first sign that it wouldn’t be just your average family film. In fact, the film turns out to be a celebration of the history of early cinema, most notably the work of Georges Méliès, played in the film by Ben Kingsley. For…
