(courtesy IMP Awards) There is a fine line between laudable intent and misfired execution in Hollywood and IF, unfortunately sails right through and over it, and around it, landing somewhere far away from where you can tell writer-director John Krasinski meant it to. It’s a pity because there’s such a Continue Reading
Animation
Big Disney animation reveal! Win or Lose, Toy Story 5, Moana 2 + news on Elio, Frozen III, Hoppers, Zootopia 2, Dream Productions and Incredibles 3
(via Shutterstock) If you are a super passionate Disney fan, then the odds are very good that you were in Anaheim, California just a few days ago for D23 billed as the “ultimate Disney fan event”. But if you couldn’t make the event itself, and without a Mary Poppins to Continue Reading
Movie review: Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
(courtesy IMP Awards) If you have ever gone through that messy period somewhere in your teens, and let’s face it, you must have unless some god or another equally mythical being simply threw you down to earth with creational bombast, you will be well acquainted with that sense of who Continue Reading
Come November, we’re all going to get a little Spellbound …
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTSpellbound follows the adventures of Ellian, the tenacious young daughter of the rulers of Lumbria who must go on a daring quest to save her family and kingdom after a mysterious spell transforms her parents into monsters. Spellbound also features an original score from EGOT-winning composer Alan Continue Reading
Festive animated Peanuts special: I Want a Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown
(courtesy IMDb) Remember when you were a kid and as Christmas approached, all you wanted, all you could think to ask for from Santa, was one particular toy or thing. You were, in a way only kids can ask for, obsessed, and all that mattered was getting that present and Continue Reading
The short and the Christmas in July short of it: The life-transforming, cocoa-sipping revelations of Hey Deer!
(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTHey Deer! Short Animated Film about an adorable, cocoa-drinking deer who is eager to tidy and shoveling in front of his house every day. However, there is a suspicious earthquake every night which causes the mess day by day and make unbearable our fella’s life. Between two cups Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Happily ever after takes some work to pull off in The End
(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTThe End is an award-winning animated film about Hilderose, a determined princess who must go back in time and save her Happily Ever After when her gallant knight and fiancé Sir Maximilian dies on the day of their wedding. Voice Acting by Samantha Cooper and Will AkanaScore by Continue Reading
During #ChristmasInJuly 2024 I decorated my tree with 10 pop culture ornaments incl. Popeye, Grover, 101 Dalmatians, Winnie the Pooh, Garfield, The Partridge Family + more
(courtesy IMP Awards) Yes, my friends, I put up a Christmas in July tree. Well, to be fair, it’s a plain white tree that sits on a table in our loungeroom all year round and which is bedecked in Christmas ornaments in July and December (and yes, just into February Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Fast and different is no bad thing in Lazy Bloom (Graine De Paresse)
(courtesy TheCGBros) TheCGBros Presents Lazy Bloom (Graine De Paresse) [in which] in a small peaceful world, lives a people of lazy creatures called the Blobs. One day their calm is broken by the birth of Zip, a hyperactive blob. He will try to fit in this world despite his differences. Continue Reading
Boldly going where no Starfleet person has gone before … Star Trek: Prodigy S1 and S2
(courtesy IMP Awards) Season 1Thanks to the raw viewing immediacy that streaming offers, it doesn’t take much for any would-be watcher of a series to be left far behind, very quickly. There is, simply out, way more content than there are hours in the waking day, and by a considerable Continue Reading