(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTWhen Santa’s (Arnold Schwarzenegger) iconic red bag is stolen by a rogue elf with a grudge (Awkwafina), Christmas is suddenly at risk. With his biggest night of the year fast-approaching, Santa recruits a thief (Alan Ritchson) from his ‘Naughty List’ who quickly assembles a crew of criminally Continue Reading
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“I just want everything to be … like it used to be.” Streaming trailer highlight: Phony
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTPhony is a coming-of-age mystery series about a teenager named Sonny (Sam Nivola) who wakes up in the hospital after a car accident to discover his mom Ellen (Connie Britton) — his only parent & best friend — appears to have been replaced by an impostor. Phony Continue Reading
Trio o’ terrific trailers (September 2026): MADFABULOUS, Treasure Island + Onwards and Sideways
(via Shutterstock) In an act of huge pop culture consuming nerdery, I keep lists of movies and TV/streaming shows I’d like to watch. I apologise for none of it because frankly with the sheer volume of content happily sliding down onto streaming platforms and into cinemas, it seems the only Continue Reading
Honest players in a crooked game … Ray Gunn drops its first retro future film noir trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT‘Academy Award winner Brad Bird, the visionary director of The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and The Iron Giant, brings you a whole new world to investigate…’ Set within Metropia, a gigantic city in an alternate future as seen from 1939, private eye Raymond Gunn is drawn into a case Continue Reading
Movie review: Separate Beds (2 cuori e 2 capanne)
(courtesy IMDb) Doing something fun and interesting with a well-trod and cliche-saturated genre like romantic comedy is always a challenge. It’s why many romcoms, delightful though they are, are barely discernible riffs on well-worn tropes and cliches, serving up just enough escapist romanticism to keep eager audiences happy; occasionally, though Continue Reading
They’re not back … they never left: Trailer drops for Ghosts: The Possession of Button House
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT‘This Halloween, secrets will be unlocked…’ The beloved and award-winning BBC comedy Ghosts arrives on the big screen this Halloween. Ghosts‘ stars, writers and creators Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard, and Ben Willbond are all back, along with Lolly Adefope, Charlotte Ritchie Continue Reading
Movie review: Coyote vs. Acme
(courtesy IMP Awards) We’ve become so used to the well-structured cycle of movie hype and promo, which always finishes with the release of said ballyhooed film either in the cinema or a streaming platform, that the idea that you could make a film and actually never released it, not because Continue Reading
A trio of triumphantly tantalising trailers: Whalefall, The Cat in the Hat and Below
(via Shutterstock) How can you not love going to the movies? Look at the dazzling variety in these three films alone – a gripping if fantastical thriller, a garrulously chaotic animated delight based on an iconic Dr Seuss book and some seriously Halloween adjacent supernatural goings-on in an otherwise ordinary Continue Reading
Italian Film Festival movie review: Life is Life (La vita va così)
(courtesy IMDb) If there’s one thing audiences love, it’s a David vs. Goliath tale. In the real world, we sigh inwardly and rail with quiet fury, and often not-so-quiet fury, at the gross injustices of companies not paying tax and in effect screwing over the public they serve, fascistic politicians Continue Reading
Aliens and foxes and a journey across the cosmos: The Saga of Rex trailer
(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