In the newest addition to the “chillogy” of five films (just go with it), Ice Age: Collision Course finds Manny (Ray Romano), Sid (John Leguizamo), Diego (Denis Leary) and the gang of various prehistoric creatures, all running from an apocalyptic chain of asteroids bringing the end of the Ice Age with it.
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In the film’s newest, extended TV spot, rambunctious squirrel Scrat is yet again the cause of much of the movie’s plot, as his quest for the perfect acorn leads him into a crashed UFO.
Once he tries to leave the planet and jet off into space, he bumps into a series of comets and accidentally sets off a chain of earth-shattering events that could spell doom for Manny and his friends.
Prior to Collision Course, there have been four Ice Age movies since the original’s debut in 2002. Despite the enormous financial success story that is the Ice Age franchise, the films are simply great family fun.
The BFG
More satisfying than delightful, Steven Spielberg's The BFG is a companion piece to his own classic release from that same year: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
Separated by more than three decades but both written by the late Melissa Mathison, the two films pair hopeful children with fantastic creatures who become their closest companion.
The BFG is a reasonably faithful adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1982 children's book about the friendship between a big friendly giant and a little girl.
Ten-year-old Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) is first seen in the middle of the night, prowling a London orphanage.
She is a no-nonsense loner, shushing drunks in the street outside with a blunt "oi!" before covertly reading a book that features a far worse academy for unwanted children: Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby.
She has an everyday defiance, but not a hint of precocious entitlement, which aids the movie immeasurably.
Drawn again to the dormitory window by noise outside, Sophie witnesses a giant sneaking through quiet streets – this London, vaguely situated in the early 1980s, has no 24-hour kebab shops – and flees to the safety of her bed.
It is no safety at all, as the oversized being reaches into the room and snatches her up, carrying her through the city via camouflage and great strides, across the countryside and above the clouds.
Source: Craig Mathieson, SMH
