(courtesy Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2025) As premises for romantic comedies go, and let’s face it they are as wide and different as the days in the middle of summer are long, In the Sub for Love (A toute allure) has an absolute cracker. A handsome male flight attendant, Continue Reading
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More delightfully quirky Wes Anderson goodness coming up in the beguiling The Phoenician Scheme
(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTThe story of a family and a family business. A dark tale of espionage following a strained father-daughter relationship within a family business. Wes Anderson’s unique twists revolve around betrayal and morally gray choices in this spy comedy thriller. The Phoenician Scheme is both written and directed by Continue Reading
Movie trailer double! Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and Ocean with David Attenborough
(via Shutterstock) My cinematic tastes are nothing if not eclectic, and if you need proof of that, take in the two choices for this movie trailer double. The grand finale to a two-parter of possibly one of the greatest action movie franchises ever shares space with the legendary Sir David Continue Reading
Worlds … will … collide … Tron: Ares delivers an impressively intense first trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTTron: Ares follows a highly sophisticated program, Ares (starring Jared Leto), who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings. The highly anticipated sequel to the sci-fi classics Tron (1982) and Tron: Legacy (2010). Continue Reading
Movie review: The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
(courtesy IMP Awards) Nostalgia, handled carefully, can be a wonderful thing. You can relive and renew your love for something that gave you, and likely still gives you, great joy, and as long as it doesn’t ensnare and entrap you from adding to your living library of life experiences, you Continue Reading
AFFFF25 movie review: Meet the Leroys (Nous, les Leroy)
(courtesy IMDb) The end of something is always bittersweet. Even the final moments of something awful comes with a sense of mourning for what otherwise might have been; but when it’s something like a marriage between two people who were once genuinely in love, that sense of loss and grief Continue Reading
Movie review: Bob Trevino Likes It
(courtesy IMP Awards) People need people. No, that is not inspired by the 1964 Barbra Streisand track of almost the same name but by the simple recognition of the innate sociability of the human species. We need to belong. We need to matter, and at a profound level, and when Continue Reading
“What if the thing you were searching for… found you first?” Elio debuts first full trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTEleven-year-old dreamer Elio (voiced by Yonas Kibreab) is artistic, creative, and an avid indoorsman who finds it hard to fit in. Meanwhile, Mom Olga, who runs a top-secret military project, is working to decode a strange alien signal from outer space. But it’s Elio who makes contact, Continue Reading
Take a special look at the upcoming second series of Andor: A Star Wars Story
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTWhile Season 1 followed Cassian’s reluctant journey from cynical nobody to revolutionary volunteer, the long-awaited conclusion in Andor season 2 will see the characters and their relationships intensify as the horizon of war draws near and Cassian becomes a key player in the Rebel Alliance. Everyone will Continue Reading
AFFFF25 movie review: All Stirred Up! (Tous toqués!)
(courtesy Alliance Francaise French Film Festival) Having your world upended is not always the best of outcomes. But when it results in life getting way better, and in defiance of every expectation you may have held to that point, then rather than collapsing in good old sack cloth and ashes Continue Reading