(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
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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
Movie review: Bon Voyage, Marie (On Ira) AFFFF26
(courtesy IMDb) Saying a final goodbye to anyone you love who is dying is one of the hardest things you can do in life. But it becomes even more devastating when it arrives out of nowhere, which is precisely what happens in Bon Voyage, Marie (On Ira) when a lovingly Continue Reading
Movie review: The Pout-Pout Fish
(courtesy IMP Awards) Based on the book of the same name by Deborah Diesen with art by Dan Hanna, The Pout-Pout Fish is of those films that comes with a fairly simple premise but which becomes so much more thanks to clever writing and some mischievously inventive animation. Adapted from Continue Reading
Why is he in space? Behind-the-scene sneak peek of Project Hail Mary
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAstronaut Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) awakens with no memory of himself or his mission. He deduces he is the sole survivor of a crew sent to the Tau Ceti solar system in search of a solution to a catastrophic event on Earth. In his search for answers, Continue Reading
Movie review: She’s the He! #MGFF26
(courtesy IMDb) Identity cuts to the core of who we are as people. But for something so intrinsic to our sense of self and expression, identity is often twisted into all sorts of unrecognisable shapes by societal pressure, familial expectations, bullying and bigotry and even our personal journeys to figuring Continue Reading
All the joy … K-Pops! and the hard work and happiness of second chances
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTMeet BJ (Anderson .Paak), a fish-out-of-water musician on the search for stardom carrying a bruised heart from a complicated past relationship. On his journey to revive his music career, BJ lands a gig with a house band in Seoul for a K-Pop competition show. While working on Continue Reading