(courtesy IMP Awards) Humanity is anchored and defined by its relationships. While romantic love steals much of the showy, relationally performative limelight, it is friendship that often sustains us and endures long beyond the flashy pop and fizz of eros, giving us a sure point of return in the chaotic Continue Reading
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Find your rhythm and sparkle on … Thelma the Unicorn drops a funny, colourful and heartfelt trailer
(courtesy First Showing (c) Netflix) SNAPSHOTThelma is a small-time pony who dreams of becoming a glamourous music star. In a pink and glitter-filled moment of fate, Thelma is transformed into a unicorn and instantly rises to global stardom. But this new life of fame comes at a cost. Thelma the Continue Reading
Movie review: Monkey Man
(courtesy IMP Awards) Revenge is a common enough them in storytelling that having it anchor yet another action thriller feature film might seem a little been-there-done-that-don’t-really-think-I-need-the-T-shirt. After all, the John Wick series aside which is as superlative as this well-worn genre gets and which deserves all the accolades bountifully handed Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2024: Week 4 – Albania, Armenia, Austria, Belgium, Czechia (Semi final 2, part 1)
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Weekday movie character poster art: The many faces of IF
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTWhat if everything you believed as a kid was real? From the imagination of John Krasinski, enter a world you have to believe to see. From writer and director John Krasinski, IF is about a girl who discovers that she can see everyone’s imaginary friends — and Continue Reading
Movie review: Civil War
(courtesy IMP Awards) One of the great joys of going to see movies in the cinema is when a film moves way beyond simply being something projected onto the screen and becomes an immersive experience that is so all-consuming that the real world ceases to exist and all that matters Continue Reading
The complications of life, love and family: Janet Planet trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) spends the summer of 1991 living at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet (Julianne Nicholson). Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker captures a child’s experience of time passing, and the ineffability of a Continue Reading
You are not your thoughts … trailer lands for Turtles All the Way Down
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTHannah Marks’ new film Turtles All the Way Down tackles anxiety through its 17-year-old protagonist, Aza Holmes (Isabela Merced). It’s not easy being Aza, but she’s trying… trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, and a good student, all while navigating an endless barrage of Continue Reading
Movie review: A Difficult Year (Une année difficile)
(courtesy IMDb) Beginnings are everything when it comes to storytelling – sure you need an engaging middle and a decisively satisfying ending but if things go awry at the start, you’re not going to be waiting around for anything that comes after – and A Difficult Year (Une année difficile) Continue Reading
Movie review: Ghostbusters – Frozen Empire
(courtesy IMP Awards) Is it possible to stuff too much into the gargantuan frame of your average blockbuster? Yes, as it turns out, it is; no matter how big and epic they might seem, it is entirely too throw far too many ideas and plot points and character moments into Continue Reading