Life, you may have noticed, doesn’t really come with a manual. We have to make the best of it we can, usually, and for most people, that means putting one foot in front of the other, getting a job, making a family of some kind and finding small moments of Continue Reading
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A mini-mass of movie trailers: You Hurt My Feelings, When Time Got Louder and Rye Lane
Being alive can be hard. It’s better than the alternative, obviously, but it comes with a host of loaded situations, emotional minefields and the gnawing sense that we might not be quite up to the job. Existential imposter syndrome, anyone? In these three films, life goes under the microscope, both Continue Reading
Movie review: Shazam – Fury of the Gods
If you think about, you rarely see superheroes smile or really exult with wild abandon in what they do. Sure, you’ll see moments of quiet celebration or the exhilaration of a job well done as the Big Bad of the moment is banished into the darkness from which they first Continue Reading
Discover the hero just below the surface: Meet Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
SNAPSHOTSweet, awkward 16-year-old Ruby Gillman (Lana Condor) is desperate to fit in at Oceanside High, but she mostly just feels invisible. She’s math-tutoring her skater-boy crush (Jaboukie Young-White), who only seems to admire her for her fractals, and she’s prevented from hanging out with the cool kids at the beach Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: The Disappearance of Mrs. Wu, Simulant and My Happy Ending
I love movies with a huge amount of heart. They can live in any genre and plots outlandish or sweetly nuanced but they must have some real humanity front and centre, something to stir the soul and make you feel something. These three films well and and truly fit the Continue Reading
Movie review: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Pinocchio is one of those stories that we think we know intimately and well, thanks to the 1940 Disney animated version of the book by The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (with illustrations by Gris Grimly) which has gripped the public consciousness ever since its release and which defines for many Continue Reading
Hail the Best Pictures of the year: Montage showcases all 10 nominees
SNAPSHOTThe Best Picture nominees from 2022: All Quiet on the Western Front (directed by Edward Berger), Avatar: The Way of Water (directed by James Cameron), The Banshees of Inisherin (directed by Martin McDonagh), Elvis (directed by Baz Luhrmann), Everything Everywhere All at Once (directed by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert), The Fabelmans (directed by Steven Spielberg), Tár (directed by Todd Field), Top Gun: Maverick (directed by Joseph Kosinski), Triangle Continue Reading
Movie review: Aftersun
Normally the remembrance of a pivotal holiday is a thing of wonder and nostalgic charm. A respite from the incessantly exhausting demands of the everyday world, holidays usually represent something to be treasured and held in rose-tinted awe, an escape from the failings of the world-weary present that’s wrapped in Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Love According to Dalva, Past Lives and Wildflower
Movies that takes you deeply and sensitively into the human condition are perhaps the rewarding of films to watch. While they don’t possess the bigness and brightness of blockbusters, what they do have in spades is a beguiling sense of human relatability, the sense that even though the characters may Continue Reading
Light those vanilla candles! We’re headed to the Haunted Mansion where things are seriously unhinged
SNAPSHOT“Look alive, foolish mortals!” Inspired by the classic theme park attraction, Disney’s Haunted Mansion is about a woman and her son who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters. Disney’s Haunted Mansion movie is directed by the American filmmaker Justin Simien, Continue Reading