(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTSwapped is a buddy comedy about a small woodland creature (voiced by Academy Award winner Michael B. Jordan) and a majestic bird (voiced by Juno Temple). When these two natural sworn enemies of The Valley suddenly swap bodies, they must team up, while walking in each other’s Continue Reading
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Movie review: Cycle of Time (C’était mieux demain) #AFFF26
(courtesy IMDb) In every way that matters to the social mores of 1958, Hélène and Michel Dupuis (Elsa Zylberstein and Didier Bourdon respectively) are a typical, happy married couple, each operating within their narrow, heavily-proscribed lanes. Hélène, immaculately displayed in tightly fashionable, figure hugging dresses and with a not a Continue Reading
Movie trailer double: Captain Tsunami and Remarkably Bright Creatures
Ah, movies I love you. Being able to sit back in the dark of a cinema, and yes, while I appreciate the convenience of streaming as a catch-up device, my heart still very much sits with going and joining fellow moviegoers in a public space. These two films looks delightful Continue Reading
Movie review: The Magic Faraway Tree
(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s a tale as old as, well, not time exactly, but certainly since the day movies arrived just over a century ago and began adapting books into films, setting in train a titanic battle between those who believe solely in the purity of the written word and Continue Reading
Movie review: Project Hail Mary
(courtesy IMP Awards) At the heart of every great and enduring sci-fi story, sits an impressive amount of evocative humanity. It’s easy just to see the spaceships and the planetary expanses and aliens and wars and epic space opera sprawling across millennia and impossibly far light years of stars and Continue Reading
“Oh my God, run!!” The End of Oak Street releases a prehistorically intriguing trailer
(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
Movie review: Hoppers
(courtesy IMP Awards) Really believing in something, in its purest and least judgmental form, is among life’s greatest joys. There’s nothing like the passion that courses through your veins, the sparkle of idea fizzing with excitable urgency around your brain and your heart being fully engaged in something that really Continue Reading
Movie review: What is Love? (C’est quoi l’amour ?) #AFFFF26
(courtesy French Film Festival/Palace Cinemas) The end of romantic love is generally portrayed as a piece of cataclysmic, antagonistic trauma with hopes sullied, joy vanquished and that cost sense of belonging messily ripped asunder. In short, it is very much a Dickensian worst of times. But in What is Love? Continue Reading
A monstrously fun family adventure: Trailer debuts for Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTShaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom sees the residents of Mossy Bottom Farm looking forward to Halloween – until the clumsy Farmer trashes the Flock’s beloved pumpkin patch! When Shaun turns into mad scientist to help fix the problem, things rapidly spiral out of control… Continue Reading
Movie review: Leave One Day (Partir un Jour) #AFFFF26
(courtesy IMDb) Mixing the past and the present can always be a little awkward and more than a bit emotionally unsettling. But much of the time that’s not an issue for anyone, with the past and the present separated by a sizeable gap of years; that is, of course, until Continue Reading