SNAPSHOT As popcorn’s wealth circulated, theaters realized they needed to sell concessions without the street vendors as the middleman. The theaters are selling popcorn, candy, and soda. Things are going great until World War II came around and the United States entered a sugar shortage. Sugar exporters were cut off Continue Reading
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Mass of movie trailers: Aladdin, Juanita, Tolkien, The Hustle, Yesterday
INTRO ALADDIN SNAPSHOT The Aladdin cast includes: Two-time Oscar® nominee Will Smith (Ali, Men in Black) as the Genie who has the power to grant three wishes to whoever possesses his magic lamp; Mena Massoud (Amazon’s Jack Ryan) as Aladdin, the hapless but lovable street rat who is smitten with Continue Reading
Ralph Breaks the Internet: Behind-the-scenes look at the creation of virus Double Dan
How do you make a truly unlikeable antagonist somewhat likeable while still keeping an air of menace to them? Most particularly, how do you do this when you’re making a reasonably-cute Disney animated feature – really, is there any other kind? – which is meant to represent the fun as Continue Reading
Movie review: Giant Little Ones
Life, as you’ve likely noticed by now, is not a straightforward undertaking. While many people of a religious or even secular persuasion may choose to argue otherwise, clinging to their black-and-white dogma like its is truth incarnate, the reality is what we think will happen or who we think we’ll Continue Reading
Do you want to watch a sequel? Frozen 2 has a trailer and a poster
SNAPSHOT We still don’t know all that much about the sequel’s plot, other than that it’ll see Anna, Elsa and co go on an adventure. Co-director Chris Buck has said that the new film will see the next evolution in the lives of the series’ stars Anna, Kristoff and Olaf, Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: An Ode to Love – one man, an island and some sticks
An Ode To Love, written and directed by Matthew Darragh and produced by Suzie Belton & Danielle Considine with music by Stefan French, and made with the generous support of Filmbase and RTE, tells the story of a man on a desert island who falls in love with a stick. Continue Reading
Movie review: Io
Pop quiz! The world is ending, yes again – once is understandable, two is just careless and beyond that, well – and you have one last chance to get aboard a ship that will take you out to the moon of Io, orbiting Jupiter, around which sits all that is Continue Reading
Purl and the tricky art of fitting in without sacrificing who you are
SNAPSHOTPurl, follows a bright pink ball of yarn who begins work at a homogenous corporate office filled with men who waste no time ostracizing her. The short is written and directed by Kristen Lester and produced by Gillian Libbert-Duncan. (synopsis (c) EW) Fitting into a new workplace is never easy Continue Reading
Little Woods: The wrong things for the right reasons
SNAPSHOT Ollie (Tessa Thompson) is a reformed drug runner now living in an economically depressed small town in North Dakota, who was caught coming back from Canada with medicine for her terminally ill mother and has been toeing the line ever since. After her mother dies, Ollie’s sister Deb (Lily Continue Reading
Mary Poppins Returns: Here’s what you might have missed
As sequels go, Mary Poppins Returns is almost within a class of its own. Released 54 years after the original Mary Poppins came out in 1964, it is every bit a much for its predecessor, drawing more faithfully off the books by P. L. Travers while also hearkening back many Continue Reading