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
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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
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