SNAPSHOT Gold Circle Entertainment and HBO present the Playtone production of My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, written by Academy Award nominee Vardalos, who stars alongside the entire returning cast of favorites. The movie picks up with Toula and Ian struggling to find time for each other while managing Continue Reading
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She just kept swimming: Finding Dory drops first trailer and poster
SNAPSHOT The movie will be mostly set at the California Marine Biology Institute, a huge complex of sea life rehabilitation and aquarium, where Dory was born and raised. We will get to meet new characters, like an octopus, sea lions, a beluga whale, among others. (synopsis by Pixar president Continue Reading
Movie review: Freeheld
One of the great catch cries of the campaign for marriage equality around the world has been that love is love, no matter what your sexual orientation may be. While that claim is fiercely disputed by some, the truth is that when human beings fall in love, they are Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Stop/Eject, a magical story of love most unusual
SNAPSHOT Stop/Eject is a magical and moving fantasy drama starring Georgina Sherrington (The Worst Witch) and directed by Neil Oseman, dubbed “The Spielberg of Hereford” by The Guardian. It premiered at Raindance in 2014, and in 2015 was long-listed for a Bafta and won the Best Drama Short award Continue Reading
“Demented” reading: Kids books get a pop culture makeover courtesy of Joey Spiotto
One of my wondrous parts of my childhood was sitting down with all my Little Golden Books and reading the afternoon away. There was something so enticing about the iconic book line, with its glittering gold spine and array of storytelling possibilities, that had me hooked from the word Continue Reading
A melting pot of marvel: New stills and cast info for Zootopia
SNAPSHOT The modern mammal metropolis of Zootropolis is a city like no other. Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it’s a melting pot where animals from every environment live together—a place where no matter what you are, from the biggest elephant to the smallest Continue Reading
Love isn’t just for the movies: The enduring creative romance of Harold and Lillian
It can be tempting to think, at times, that love, true love, is an elusive concept; an overly optimistic idea whose true home is not in the rough-and-tumble of real life, but in the movies, TV, popular art. Anywhere it seems but in the rubber-hits-the-road realness of day to Continue Reading
Poster me this! Star Wars: The Force Awakens character posters
Unless you are stuck on a rock, or under it, floating somewhere in the far reaches of the galaxy, you’d have no doubt heard there’s a new Star Wars movie in the offing. Oh hell, I’m sure that even in the remotest parts of the Outer Rim Territories moviegoers Continue Reading
Tumbling every which way in Alice Through the Looking Glass (teaser trailers)
SNAPSHOT Mia Wasikowska is joined by Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, as well as franchise newbies Rhys Ifans as the Mad Hatter’s father and Sacha Baron Cohen as Time. Tim Burton returns in a Continue Reading
65 years Charlie Brown! New extended trailer for The Peanuts Movie covers a lot of ground
SNAPSHOT Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the rest of the beloved “Peanuts” gang make their big-screen debut, like they’ve never been seen before, in state of the art 3D animation. Charlie Brown, the world’s most beloved underdog, embarks upon an epic and heroic quest, while his best pal, Continue Reading