(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
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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
Welcome to Wonka Land: Go behind-the-scenes with 2023’s most deliciously fantastical film
(courtesy IMP Awards) “So quiet up, and listen down. Nope. Scratch that, reverse it.” When it comes to diving behind the scenes of a favourite movie or TV show, you either relish the chance to have the curtain pulled back or you blanche in horror at the idea that you’ll Continue Reading
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown #ValentinesDay
(courtesy IMDb) Love, sweet love … ain’t it the greatest? Well, yes, but not if you’re Charlie Brown sadly and no one, I repeat no one, is giving you Valentines, and in public, on the big day! The attitude, as expressed by Lucy (Melanie Kohn) in her trademark scornfully dismissive Continue Reading
A massive mass of Super Bowl trailers: Twisters, Wicked, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Deadpool & Wolverine, Kung Fu Panda 4, Despicable Me 4 + The Fall Guy
(via Shutterstock) Super Bowl is HUGE. HUGE HUGE … HUGE. Apparently it’s a football game, so I’m told and – and here’s who won if that matters to you – but it’s also a chance for a metric ton of advertising of all kinds of items and, happily for those Continue Reading