(courtesy IMP Awards) When a schism develops slowly and over time between you and someone foundationally woven into your life, it can feel well nigh impossible to bridge it in any meaningful way. Years of quiet warfare, not wished for or intended can leach the bedrock of this primal connection Continue Reading
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She’s gloriously unique: Thoughts on watching One-of-a-kind Marcie
(courtesy IMP Awards) One of the great joys of Peanuts, the warmly iconic comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, is how he always loved and revered the underdog. He was realistic enough to know that underdogs didn’t always have the easiest time of it, but in Charlie Brown, Linus, and Continue Reading
Phantoms begone! It’s Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too!
(courtesy IMDb / (c) DC Comics/Warner Bros Entertainment) SNAPSHOTThe world’s greatest heroes, DC’s Justice League, have mysteriously vanished and a terrifying phantom has taken up residence in The Hall of Justice. Now it’s up to the world’s greatest super sleuths, Scooby and the gang, to solve the mystery and save Continue Reading
Movie review: Blue Beetle
(courtesy IMP Awards) Impressive though they are, with blockbuster epicness leaking from their every oversized, CGI-enhanced narrative pore, one thing that superhero often don’t have in abundance is a bold and affecting sense of real affecting humanity. Oh, they have pivotally impactful moments – well, moments engineered to be that Continue Reading
Movie review: Past Lives
(courtesy IMP Awards) There’s something achingly affecting about the relationship many of us have with the past. Whether it was a sad or happy time, and regardless of where it left us in the present, there’s a certain mourning that takes place, a melancholic nostalgia for what might have been Continue Reading
The tide is turning: First trailer drops for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
(courtesy IMP awards) SNAPSHOTHaving failed to defeat Aquaman the first time, Black Manta, still driven by the need to avenge his father’s death, will stop at nothing to take Aquaman down once & for all. Now Black Manta is more formidable than ever, wielding the power of the mythic Black Continue Reading
Movie review: A Brighter Tomorrow (Il sol dell’avvenire)
(courtesy IMDb) It’s all too easy to fall into ruts in life. What seems like the perpetuation of something good and rewarding, the sustaining of ritual and performance which has worked for so many years, suddenly becomes a weight around your neck, or more accurately around the necks of those Continue Reading
Streaming special: Everything Now, The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar, Our Flag Means Death S2, Lessons in Chemistry + Frasier
(via Shutterstock) Gird your loins people because the tsunami of streaming content continues to race towards us at great speed. Getting through it all is likely next-to-near impossible, but while that may be true, this reviewer is going to be giving these five shows a red-hot go because they all Continue Reading
“They’re coming to get me.” Humanity fights for its existence against future AI in final trailer for The Creator
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“This is a fight for our very existence.” Amid a future sci-fi war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, Joshua, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect Continue Reading
Never underestimate a Dublin woman with a guitar: The transformative power of music comes to the fore in Flora and Son
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTSingle mom Flora (Eve Hewson) is at a loss about what to do with her rebellious teenage son, Max (Orén Kinan). Encouraged by the police to find Max a hobby, Flora tries to occupy him with a beat-up acoustic guitar. With the help of a washed-up LA Continue Reading