May 20, 2026 – SparklyPrettyBriiiight

(courtesy First Showing (c) Pixar) SNAPSHOTMother’s Nature is a series of vignettes with a playful twist on what it means to be a mom, whether you’re a turtle, parrot or anything in between. Directed by Valerie LaPointe and Produced by Claire Munzer and Paige Johnstone. (courtesy YouTube (c) Pixar) This Continue Reading

“Three makes it a murder mystery!” Is there a killer Among Us?

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAmong Us follows a premise similar to that of the original video game from 2018. A crew team aboard the spaceship The Skeld discovers there is an alien shapeshifter who plans to cause chaos, sabotage the ship, and kill each member. Thus, the Crewmates must find out Continue Reading

It’s coming in HOT! Ice Age: Boiling Point fries up a sizzlingly funny teaser trailer

(courtesy IMP Awards) Ice Age: Boiling Point is an upcoming American animated adventure comedy film directed by John C. Donkin. It is the sixth main installment in the Ice Age film series following Collision Course (2016), and the seventh Ice Age feature film overall. The film features Ray Romano, Denis Continue Reading

Movie review: Masters of the Universe

(courtesy IMP Awards) The 21st century is not exactly a laughfest of goofy silliness. That’s been obvious for quite some time but when you compare it to the ’70s and ’80s when all kinds of fabulous strangeness was not only play but exuberantly celebrated, it feels very grim and serious Continue Reading

Songs, songs and more songs #137: Emei, METTE, MARIS, Scratching + Holly Humberstone

(via Shutterstock) Can a danceable song really speak to your heart? Damn straight it can and here are five artists who really give substance to the idea that your music can have really bounce and vibrancy to it and yet have you feeling all of the deep and sometimes painful Continue Reading

You think your last move was bad? Wait ’til you see the one in The End of Oak Street

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“Our house, our neighborhood, our whole street has moved.” Filmed for IMAX. After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their Continue Reading

Latest releases May book review: John of John by Douglas Stuart

(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) There’s a real joy to reading a novel by someone who wields their words not simply with artistry but with a sense of deeply affecting humanity. It’s easy enough if you’re a masterful writer, to make sentences and paragraphs and chapters that sing with the sparkling Continue Reading

Graphic novel review: Moonstruck by Grace Ellis and Shae Beagle

(courtesy Image Comics) When you first come as a queer, in whatever fabulously diverse form that takes, one of the first questions that crosses your mind is “How on earth am I going to feel anything but alone?” It’s an understandable question to ask after you’ve usually spent far too Continue Reading

Show them who’s boss: Thoughts on Running Point S2

(courtesy IMP Awards) Families, the kind that inhabit Christmas movies, heartwarming novels and feel-good streaming shows, are supposed to be all kinds of warm and fuzzy unconditionally loving and supportive, a calm port in the tossed and roiling seas of life. The Gordons are NOT one of those families. Oh, Continue Reading

Have the toys finally met their match? Toy Story 5’s final fantastic trailer

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn Toy Story 5, we’re introduced to a new character Lilypad, a high-tech frog-shaped smart tablet voiced by Greta Lee that makes Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang’s jobs exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to Continue Reading

Latest releases May book review: We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune

(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) It’s a constant feature of end-of-the-world stories that there’s a sizeable reckoning for any of the protagonists involved in the story; it makes sense – the world is about to go the way of the Dodo, life in all its forms is vapourising into nothing and, Continue Reading

The short and the short of it: motherhood in the spotlight in Pixar artist’s Mother’s Nature

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