(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAcademy Award-nominated filmmaker Phil Johnston reimagines Roald Dahl’s iconic characters, Jim & Credenza Twit, in their first feature animated adventure. The Twits tells the story of Mr. & Mrs. Twit, the meanest, smelliest, nastiest people in the world who also happen to own and operate the most Continue Reading
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Movie review: All of You
(courtesy IMP Awards) Knowledge, especially when it’s anchored in scientific truth, is a good and powerful thing. Though there are far too many in the world today who believe that facts are situational and malleable and able to bent at will to suit whatever purpose you have in mind, the Continue Reading
One week for a lifetime … Emily Henry’s People We Meet on Vacation gets the cinematic treatment
(courtesy BRIT + CO via Yahoo) SNAPSHOTFree-spirited Poppy (Emily Bader) and routine-loving Alex (Tom Blyth) have been unlikely best friends for a decade, living in different cities but spending every summer vacation together. The careful balance of their friendship is put to the test when they begin to question what Continue Reading
Movie review: The Lost Bus
(courtesy IMP Awards) Survival against all odds stories can often descend into overwrought melodrama with uncanny ease. Maybe it’s because the creators of these larger than life tales are dealing with such hyperbolically enhanced events that it’s all too easy for them to get swept up in the adrenaline-rushed facts Continue Reading
Movie review: A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
(courtesy IMP Awards) If there’s one thing you likely shouldn’t do before you go to see a movie, it’s check out what one of the review aggregation sites is saying about it. Sure, it can be good to read the sites and avoid a real lemon, and that can be Continue Reading
Movie trailer x3: Wicked: For Good + Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu + Greenland 2
(via Shutterstock) I love big, sprawling, all-encompassing blockbuster movies. Movies so epic and vast you can lose yourself in, get your escapism hit for the week/day/month and still feel some deep emotional connection and reaction to the character and stories. These three films deliver all that and a whole heap Continue Reading
Movie review: Somebody to Love aka Madly (Follemente) #IFF25
(courtesy Italian Film Festival 2025 / Palace Cinemas) In the whimsically storied realm of rom-coms, first dates are usually cutely delightful or awkwardly awful; either extreme works for establishing, and yes, we all know what’s coming, that this couple is MEANT FOR EACH OTHER. It’s obvious and lacking nuance but Continue Reading
CHRISTMAS PREVIEW: The vivaciously funny festive joy of Christmas Karma
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTAn early Xmas gift… Christmas Karma sees ones of the greatest novels – Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – transformed into a joyous, colourful, feel-good Christmas musical that celebrates modern-day London and all of its communities and cultures. Told from Chadha’s unique point of view and in Continue Reading
Movie review: Superman
(courtesy IMP Awards) If there’s one thing that I have never truly liked about superhero films, it’s how unrelatably inhuman so many of these heroes of our age seem to be. Oh, they try to make them seem like one of us, and to some extent they succeed, but even Continue Reading
Frankenstein with a delightful twist … trailer drops for adaptation of beloved book series (and graphic novel), Stitch Head
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTHigh above the little town of Grubbers Nubbin, in a castle laboratory, the maddest of all mad professors brings monstrous creations to (almost) life… and then promptly forgets all about them. So, who runs the castle? Who keeps the monsters in line, so the townsfolk don’t form Continue Reading