Supernova opens over black – or so it seems. The blackness, we come to realise, is not complete. This is the night sky. There are a pinpricks of light, stars, which seem to multiply.
One flares suddenly and vanishes.…
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REVIEW DOUBLE BILL: Daphne & Final Portrait
Daphne
The feature debut of filmmaker Peter Mackie Burns, Daphne isn’t so much about finding yourself as just figuring out you’re lost.
Daphne (Emily Beecham) is a stylishly insouciant redhead in her early thirties, living and working in contemporary London.
She gets drunk on a nightly basis and hooks up with random guys.…
Spotlight digs deep and finds light in the darkness
Spotlight opens at a police station circa 1976 where representatives of the Church, in conjunction with an Assistant DA, are participating in hushing up one such incident.
“I guess the Father was ‘helping out’”, a stocky old-timer wryly comments to a redheaded rookie as a likely sex offender is ushered into the back of a snow-frosted black sedan and away from prosecution.…
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters is pure family-friendly froth
Man, it’s a difficult life being the child of a god.
It’s been three years since teenage demigod Percy Jackson (Logan Lerman) last appeared in The Lightning Thief, his equivalent of Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone. In it, Percy learned about his mystical heritage, headed over to Camp Half-Blood (a slightly more outdoorsy Hogwarts), and headed off for his first adventure with his two new best friends.…