(courtesy IMDb) Wondrous though it often is, the road to true love, and well beyond into the thorny existential thickets of life, is rarely a smooth and trouble-free journey. Oh, there is hope and possibility and a future draped in rose-coloured romance and loveliness, but it really plays out the Continue Reading
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Happy 10th birthday to The Boxtrolls! To celebrate, here’s a brand-new trailer …
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThe Boxtrolls are monsters living below the streets of Cheesebridge, who crawl out of the sewers at night to steal what the townspeople hold most dear: their children and their cheeses. Or so the townspeople have always believed… In truth, the Boxtrolls are just a community of Continue Reading
Movie review: Memoir of a Snail
(courtesy IMP Awards) You could be forgiven for wondering if life has any redeeming features at all in master stopmotion animator Adam Elliot’s lates feature-length triumph, Memoir of a Snail. That’s not because the writer-producer-director is some kind of irredeemable pessimist; he is in fact wonderfully optimistic in the face Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Gladiator II, Thunderbolts* + Red One
(via Shutterstock) The year might be winding down – yes, already already! – but there are still plenty of great movies to see. Plus, of course, 2025 beckons and with it cinematic delights, or possible ones anyway, which we’ll get to after a brief break over the Christmas holidays to Continue Reading
Movie review: The Wild Robot
(courtesy IMP Awards) Underestimate the power of animation to tell a profoundly moving and important story at your peril. As The Wild Robot, based on the book of the same name by Peter Brown, underscores again and again during its perfectly judged 102-minute running time, animated features can move the Continue Reading
Movie review: My Old Ass
(courtesy IMP Awards) One of the strangely discordant things that hit you as you reach the age where you’re old enough to think about cutting ties to your parents, physically at least, and forging your own own place in the world, and with it your own adult identity, is that Continue Reading
Queerscreen movie review double: Turtles (Les Tortues) + Gondola
(courtesy IMDb) Turtles (Les Tortues) Turtles (Les Tortues) is a film that sits poignantly at the far end of the spectrum of love. While we are well used to seeing the beginning of Cupid’s journey, the road that marks the end of a grand love affair is not as well Continue Reading
You’ll never be the same again … gorgeous final trailer for The Wild Robot
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTFrom DreamWorks Animation comes a new adaptation of a literary sensation – Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot. The epic sci-fi adventure story follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited Continue Reading
Movie review: Thelma
(courtesy IMP Awards) Hollywood of chock full of movies based on real events, and given the predisposition and often narrative need to embellish even the most impressive of real world events, you often have to wonder just how much truth lurks within the folds of the often inventive storyline. In Continue Reading
Ho Ho (Summery) Ho! Get ready for A Sudden Case of Christmas
(courtesy YAHOO!) SNAPSHOTAn American couple bring their 10 year old daughter, Claire, to her grandfather Lawrence’S hotel in The Dolomites, Italy. They usually come for Christmas but this year it’s August. The fact is they are breaking up and want Lawrence to be the one to tell Claire, especially as Continue Reading