(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTA little fox. A flying saucer. An alien world. A journey that will change his life forever. Abducted from his home and taken across the cosmos, Rex is paired with a mysterious being named Aven and forced to face a series of extraordinary trials. As they struggle Continue Reading
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Movie review: The History of Sound
(courtesy IMP Awards) Love in its purest form is supposed to elevate, enlarge, enthrall us, building and growing what was into something altogether bigger and better and different. That’s the grandly idealistic promise that romantic love makes to us and much of the time, if allowed free and full expression, Continue Reading
Movie review: Enola Holmes 3
(courtesy IMP Awards) In an age where everything feels more than a little serious and there’s nothing, it seems at least, but doom and freaking gloom, then we should all give thanks for franchise such as a Enola Holmes which, on its third sprightly outing, proves there’s great diversionary and Continue Reading
Movie review: The Dog Stars
(courtesy IMP Awards) When I read The Dog Stars by Peter Heller, the novel on which the great Ridley Scott’s latest movie is based, I was struck by how forcefully hope sat at the centre of a post-apocalyptic tale of a world brought to its civilisational knees by a virus Continue Reading
Movie review: One Night Only
(courtesy IMP Awards) Romcoms are usually fairly straightforward affairs. Two people of any kind of gender mix meet, find themselves attracted to each other, do and say cute things, fall in love, stuff it up a little (or a lot), recover and sail off metaphorically into the sunset, hardly believing Continue Reading
Christmas movie preview: Violent Night 2
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIf you’re nice, you get presents from the Big Guy. If you’re naughty, you get justice. In 2022’s bare-knuckle holiday sensation, Violent Night, an embittered Santa, armed with lethal combat skills, took out a team of mercenaries to rescue a girl & her family. Now, not-so-jolly Saint Continue Reading
Movie review: The End of Oak Street
(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s likely one of the greatest tests any person can face – what do you do when your world changes, literally in an instant, and you have to confront and deal with a brand new set of circumstances with no time to prepare and no real understanding Continue Reading
Movie review: A Light That Never Goes Out (Jossain on valo joka ei sammu)
(courtesy IMDb) When we are young and brimming with self confidence and optimistic expectation, it’s near impossible to think of a time when all the certainties of our youth might fall away in a kind of existential cataclysm that will make us wonder if there’s a future worth having at Continue Reading
One big angry family … The Angry Birds Movie 3 trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTParenthood is a game-changer.” The birds are all back! This holiday season, one angry bird will face his greatest challenge yet, surviving fatherhood… while saving the world! The Angry Birds Movie 3 is once again directed by animation filmmaker John Rice, director of The Angry Birds 2 Continue Reading
Movie review: Heartstopper Forever
(courtesy IMP Awards) Is anyone really and truly a fan of goodbyes? There’s a saying that flies round when someone skips out on a fond and meaningful farewell that goes something along the lines of “I’m not good at goodbyes”, and it’s said like that person, and that person alone, Continue Reading