(courtesy Laika Studios) SNAPSHOTStep inside Laika’s Wildwood, where a powerful golden eagle commands the skies and magic takes flight. Wildwood – based on Colin Meloy’s illustrated book series – will see Prue McKeel leave behind her home of Portland, Oregon, venturing into Wildwood on a dark quest to save her Continue Reading
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Movie review: Rental Family
(courtesy IMP Awards) People are not very good at bring authentic. We talk a big name about laying your heart on the line or wearing it on your sleeve, and to be fair sizeable number of people do just that, but by and large, many of us play pretend about Continue Reading
Weekend movie poster art: Character posters for GOAT
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTFrom Sony Pictures Animation, the studio behind Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, comes GOAT, an original action-comedy set in an all-animal world. The story follows Will (voiced by Caleb McLaughlin), a small goat with big dreams who gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play roarball Continue Reading
Movie review: Marty Supreme
(courtesy IMP Awards) It is a rare thing indeed in this information-saturated, preview-addicted, spoiler-suffused, endlessly-reviewed digital world of ours that anything subverts and surprises and blows expectations well and truly out of the water. Marty Supreme, starring recent Golden Globe winner Timothée Chalamet as the titular character, Marty Mauser and Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers 2025 #1: The Sheep Detectives, Jimmy + Greenland 2: Migration
(via Shutterstock) Another year and lots more movies to watch! Hurrah! Apart from reading books, my other great enduring love is losing myself in a lovely, long movie and with eclectic tastes, that opens a lot of movies to watch when I’m in the mood. Which, yes, is pretty much Continue Reading
From villain to zodiac hero: how Zootopia 2’s snake character has made the film a global hit (curated article)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Yanyan HongPhD in Media and Film Studies, University of AdelaidePublished: The Conversation Nine years after their first adventure, Zootopia’s “dream team” are back. This time, perky optimistic rabbit cop Judy Hopps and charming fox Nick Wilde must to solve a reptilian mystery. Zootopia 2 has won the Continue Reading
Popcorn and wine and a comfy seat in the dark: My top 25 films of 2025
(via Shutterstock) Due to an unrelenting level of stress, which it seems only books could address in any meaningful fashion – they are the only medium which has ever allowed me to properly switch off and escape and forget the world around me; these days, they are the only one Continue Reading
Merry Christmas in books and movies and on streaming platforms and in song … may all your pop culture festive dreams come true
(courtesy Pinterest (c) Disney) In honour of Winnie the Pooh’s first appearance in a story by A. A. Milne and the 75th anniversary of Peanuts first cartoon, this year’s Christmas greeting centres on these two groups of characters. I have loved both of them ever since I was a child Continue Reading
On 12th day of Christmas … I added another 10 new pop culture ornaments to my tree incl. Scooby-Doo, Peanuts’ Spike, Miffy + more
(via Shutterstock) Forget decking the halls … at least for right now! With Christmas almost upon us, adding more pop culture ornaments to my tree is the order of the day, and yes, while I buy far too many new ones every year – is there such a thing? I Continue Reading
Movie review: Eternity
(courtesy IMP Awards) Does love survive death? We all like to think so; the innately romantic part of ourselves, which might get trampled down by life but never really goes away, wants to hang onto the comforting idea that not even death can stand in the way of love, true Continue Reading