(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 adventure follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must Continue Reading
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Movie review: Iris and the Men (Iris et les hommes)
(courtesy IMDb) Ruts – some people love and crave them; most people though hate them, grudgingly only accepting their existence because life is so busy and full and unrelenting, that stopping to blender them up exuberantly into something refreshingly and excitingly new seems like far too much trouble. And who Continue Reading
Movie review: Housekeeping For Beginners #MGFF24
(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s tempting to think of families are solely places of bountiful joy and unconditional love; after all, in a world that seethes with contempt and cruelty and seems to delight in isolation and aloneness, families are a selfless bastion of all that is good and wonderful, and Continue Reading
“Overflowing with handcrafted charm…” … Robot Dreams drops a beautiful first full trailer
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTDog lives in Manhattan and he’s tired of being alone. One day after seeing a commercial on television, he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of 80’s NYC. One summer night, Dog, with great sadness, Continue Reading
Movie review: Damage
(courtesy IMDb) Taglines on film posters are often quite pithy, one sentence sneak peeks into what a film has to offer, and while they often do that job briefly and intriguingly well, you’d be hard pressed, most of time to attribute any real weight to them. They are disposable marketing Continue Reading
Mini-mass of marvellous trailers: Renegade Nell, Boy Kills World + Damsel
(via Shutterstock) So much to see, so little time! But are we daunted? No! Well, maybe a little bit – I mean who’s got the time to see everything? None of us, really but that doesn’t mean we won’t give it a red hot go and fire up a streaming Continue Reading
Movie review: The Mattachine Family #MGFF24
(courtesy IMP Awards) Working out what we want from life is one of the greatest challenges we’ll ever face. In theory, it all sounds delightful and empowering, a chance to really know yourself, to set your existential sails off in pursuit of things you are passionate about and to live Continue Reading
Indulge your major issues with the trailer and character posters for Borderlands
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT[In Borderlands] Lilith (Cate Blanchett), an infamous bounty hunter with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home, Pandora, the most chaotic planet in the galaxy. Her mission is to find the missing daughter of Atlas (Edgar Ramírez), the universe’s most powerful S.O.B. Lilith forms an unexpected Continue Reading
Movie review: Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
(courtesy IMP Awards) Adopting any book to film is a fraught exercise but especially so when it is as beloved and treasured as Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, a book about young gay love released in 2012 which has gone to become Continue Reading
Slightly late Valentines Day movie review: Fallen Leaves (Kuolleet lehdet)
(courtesy IMP Awards) In most romantic tales, love is writ big, large and heart-swooningly bold. We’re told that falling in love is the stuff of epic legend and transformative change, and true, it often can be, and so the stories we see, often on the big screen, are massive in Continue Reading