(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
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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
Mini-mass of marvellous trailers: Harold and the Purple Crayon, The Fall Guy, Alien: Romulus, House of the Dragon S2 + Star Trek: Discovery – Season 5 … and Heartstopper S3
(via Shutterstock) Is your streaming and cinematic schedule full to bursting? Then get ready to have it bulging even more dangerously at the seams, with all kinds of great and varied movies and TV shows heading your way. It’s imagination writ large, action everywhere and danger and intrigue around every Continue Reading
Movie review: A Great Friend (Les choses simples)
It’s often not until you are placed in a situation way outside your norm that you discover that your satisfaction with the way your life may not as substantial as you think it is, and that what looked like rock-solid and certain is far more fragile than you could ever Continue Reading
Movie review: Dune – Part Two
(courtesy IMP Awards) There is something about science fiction that lends itself to big epic storytelling. Maybe it’s the sprawling, limitless imagination that fuels its endlessly expansive narratives, the big ideas that find a ready home in a genre ready made for high-impact messaging, or simply the fact that you Continue Reading
Weekend movie poster art: Character posters anxiously emerge for Inside Out 2
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThe little voices inside Riley’s head know her inside and out—but next summer, everything changes. Pixar’s Inside Out 2 returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Continue Reading
What a wonderful world … The Wild Robot’s naturally beautiful journey to becoming more than they were programmed to be
(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
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