(via Shutterstock) Am I overwhelmed by how many TV-streaming shows are out and about and that I want to watch? YES. Do I want to keep adding to the list anyway, in the feverishly excitable hope that I will one day get to them all? Also YES. I am nothing Continue Reading
Movies
Shift into adventure: Trailer lands for Matchbox: the Movie
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTđźš— Inspired by the Mattel toys, Matchbox the Movie is an action-packed, globe-trotting adventure about a group of friends since childhood who have their lives upended when undercover CIA agent Sean (John Cena), their long-absent former leader, returns to their small town and unwittingly gets them embroiled Continue Reading
Christmas preview: Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol – a new take on a classic festive story
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTThis November, Johnny Depp is Ebenezer Scrooge. “A stingy, penny-pinching, cantankerous, lonely old man whose sheer miserly nature leads him to despise Christmas & all things which engender happiness.” The name you know, the story you don’t. From director Ti West – a Christmas fantasy set in Continue Reading
Movie review: The Odyssey
(courtesy IMP Awards) There is an epic grandeur to the works of Homer and even if you are not a learned student of his well-known works, The Odyssey and The Illiad, you will be familiar with many of the elements. This lends Christopher Nolan’s enthrallingly immersive adaptation of The Odyssey, Continue Reading
A triple movie trailers treat: Momo and the Time Thieves, Love Me Tender + & SONS
( via Shutterstock) I am a man of many and varied cinematic tastes. If fact, the more the merrier as far as genres go, with the exception of horror which frankly involves far too much hiding under blankets and peering through fingers for my tastes. There is real joy for Continue Reading
I decorated my 2026 Christmas in July tree with the Tenth Doctor Who, Bluey, Home Alone, Scooby-Doo and Snagglepuss … and more!
(via Shutterstock) When you love Christmas, it’s hard having it pop just once a year. Rather happily, some inventive soul somewhere decided that Christmas in July would work quite nicely, especially in the Southern Hemisphere where it’s cold and wintery and just right for a traditional festive celebration (though we Continue Reading
They sold what now?! Snoopy Presents: There’s No Place Like Home, Snoopy
(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTWhen Snoopy’s beloved doghouse is accidentally sold at a yard sale, he’s devastated. After all, that’s where his imagination first took flight and where he keeps all his favourite things. (courtesy AppleTV) How could they sell Snoopy’s iconic red doghouse out from under him? Sure Sally heard another word Continue Reading
Christmas in July movie review redux: A Boy Called Christmas
As origin stories go, the one that belongs to Santa Claus is a doozy. Drawn from a host of different European traditions, embellished by one Charles Dickens in the nineteenth century and prettied up with fetching red and a convivial air courtesy of a soda maker in the 20th, Santa Continue Reading
Get ready for the epic conclusion … Dune: Part Three full trailer drops
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAs Emperor of the known universe, Paul possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne—and a conspiracy conducted within Continue Reading
Movie review: Supergirl
(courtesy IMP Awards) One of the modern unsettling aspects of modern moviegoing is being caught in the often violently opinionated of dissenting opinions online. Run of the mill reviews aren’t the problem there; they’re often on the mark and they give you a reasonably cohesive consensus of whether a film Continue Reading