(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTDeadpool will change the history of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with Wolverine. Or will he?! The third movie in the Deadpool franchise, Deadpool & Wolverine, formerly known as just Deadpool 3, is directed by the American producer / filmmaker Shawn Levy, director of many movies including Just Continue Reading
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A trio of enticing trailers: Trap, Hit Man and I Used to be Funny + a sneak peek at Kinds of Kindness, the new film from Poor Things’ director Yorgos Lanthimos
(via Shutterstock) As the years goes screaming up, its calendar days begging to be filled with content, there’s absolutely no risk we’ll run out of things to watch. While the writers’ strike of 2023 may yet create some kind of short-term content storage, for now there’s more than enough to Continue Reading
Movie review: Wicked Little Letters
(courtesy IMP Awards) What would you do if a letter arrived in the mail full of grossly insulting expletives that accuse in swearing-laden ribald terms that you are the very worst and lowest of people? Well, for a start in the third decade of the digitally-savvy 21st century you’d likely Continue Reading
Movie review: Robot Dreams
(courtesy IMP Awards) Humanity is anchored and defined by its relationships. While romantic love steals much of the showy, relationally performative limelight, it is friendship that often sustains us and endures long beyond the flashy pop and fizz of eros, giving us a sure point of return in the chaotic Continue Reading
Find your rhythm and sparkle on … Thelma the Unicorn drops a funny, colourful and heartfelt trailer
(courtesy First Showing (c) Netflix) SNAPSHOTThelma is a small-time pony who dreams of becoming a glamourous music star. In a pink and glitter-filled moment of fate, Thelma is transformed into a unicorn and instantly rises to global stardom. But this new life of fame comes at a cost. Thelma the Continue Reading
Movie review: Monkey Man
(courtesy IMP Awards) Revenge is a common enough them in storytelling that having it anchor yet another action thriller feature film might seem a little been-there-done-that-don’t-really-think-I-need-the-T-shirt. After all, the John Wick series aside which is as superlative as this well-worn genre gets and which deserves all the accolades bountifully handed Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2024: Week 4 – Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Czechia (Semi final 2, part 1)
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Weekday movie character poster art: The many faces of IF
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTWhat if everything you believed as a kid was real? From the imagination of John Krasinski, enter a world you have to believe to see. From writer and director John Krasinski, IF is about a girl who discovers that she can see everyone’s imaginary friends — and Continue Reading
Movie review: Civil War
(courtesy IMP Awards) One of the great joys of going to see movies in the cinema is when a film moves way beyond simply being something projected onto the screen and becomes an immersive experience that is so all-consuming that the real world ceases to exist and all that matters Continue Reading
The complications of life, love and family: Janet Planet trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) spends the summer of 1991 living at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet (Julianne Nicholson). Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker captures a child’s experience of time passing, and the ineffability of a Continue Reading