(courtesy IMP Awards) Give a genre enough time in the pop culture sun and it will inevitably find itself weighed down with tropes and cliches in abundance which it is expected will be presented and accounted in every story that falls within its grasp. You can’t escape it – as Continue Reading
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Movie review: Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
(courtesy IMP Awards) You have to feel a certain amount of sympathy for anyone connected to a major franchise who is trying to steer it through the viciously opinionated waters of today’s digital age. Everyone seems to have an idea about what should, and even more emphatically what shouldn’t happen Continue Reading
Sometimes the universe leaves you a message: Voicemails for Isabelle trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTVoicemails for Isabelle charts an unexpected romance between Jill (Zoey Deutch) & Wes (Nick Robinson). After her sister Isabelle (Ciara Bravo) dies, Jill copes by continuing to leave her new voicemails. About everything from her boss Chef Bastien’s (Nick Offerman) insufferable antics to how heartbroken she is Continue Reading
Movie review: Amrum
(courtesy IMDb) Coming to a crossroads, especially an unexpected one, where you have to deal with the fact that something you believed in is no longer worth supporting or is not even remotely what you once believed it to be, is always a jarringly existential moment. It can absolutely knock Continue Reading
A world of magic awaits … Wildwood drops a sumptuously evocative first teaser trailer
(courtesy YouTube (c) 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 Continue Reading
Movie review: Hello Betty
(courtesy IMDb) Once upon a time, advertisers of food and cooking products loved the idea of stylising and propagating the ideal consumer of their products. It was a way to make their products relatable and useful in an everyday product, to put a face to a somewhat faceless product, and Continue Reading
Movie review: Swapped
(courtesy IMP Awards) If you are looking for a potent shot of animated joy into your moviegoing veins, then look no further than the vibrantly colourful and emotionally rich world of Swapped. Overflowing with gobsmackingly wonderful imaginative world-building, the best this reviewer has seen the criminally underrated wonder of Disney’s Continue Reading
Movie review: Remarkably Bright Creatures
(courtesy IMP Awards) If you had someone die who was absolutely central to your world, and whose absence makes it feel considerably smaller and barren, then you will understand the wholly disorienting sense of everything feeling like it just STOPS. The world might keep moving around you with its customary Continue Reading
There’s something magical about the creation of upcoming stop-motion wonder, Wildwood
(courtesy official LAIKA Studios YouTube channel) 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 Continue Reading
Movie review: The Sheep Detectives
(courtesy IMP Awards) No doubt the first response of many people upon seeing the whimsically touching trailer for The Sheep Detectives is that looks like precisely the sort of family film that it would’ve been fun to take the kiddies to during the recent school holidays. It looks to have Continue Reading