(courtesy IMP Awards) Mockumentaries are curious beasts. On the one hand, they give creators a golden opportunity to skewer a whole herd of sacred cows purely by positioning a person in a situation that is so eerily close to what it is in real life that telling the difference between Continue Reading
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Mini-mass of movie trailers: Shortcomings, A Fluorescent Sky, Landscape With Invisible Hand, Grey Matter + Fremont
(Photo by Meg Boulden on Unsplash) There are times, and granted they are few, where I begin to tire of going to the cinema, feeling as if I have watched too many films and gone out too many nights after work and that I should just rest up and forgo Continue Reading
War comes to every world: Rebel Moon releases official teaser trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTFrom Zack Snyder, the filmmaker behind 300, Man of Steel, and Army of the Dead, comes Rebel Moon, an epic science-fantasy event decades in the making. When a peaceful colony on the edge of a galaxy finds itself threatened by the armies of a tyrannical ruling force, Continue Reading
Movie review: Nimona
(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s a rare thing indeed to walk away from a movie, any movie, glorying in how absolutely perfect it is. There’s always an imperfection somewhere, a moment, however fleeting where you think the narrative baton was dropped or some dialogue jarred a little too much, and while Continue Reading
Mini mass of movie trailers: Maestro, A Million Miles Away, Uproar, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt and Poor Things
(via Shutterstock) When life feels like a ton of bricks weighing down upon a bowing back, stories are the one thing you an count on to transport you away from it all and make things feel less heavy, more full of life. It’s even better when you can experience the Continue Reading
Movie review: Asteroid City
(courtesy IMP Awards) If you head into Asteroid City, Wes Anderson’s latest retro pastel-toned opus expecting a coherent story and a hard-hitting message-rich narrative you may be disappointed. That’s not to say it’s lacking in either of those two things; in fact, as storytellers go, Anderson is very good at Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Sitting in Bars With Cakes, The Book of Solutions and Ballywalter
(via Shutterstock) One of my happy places is a cinema. Or perhaps more accurately, going to see movies; much of that has to do with the film itself of course, of which there are three fine upcoming titles showcased in this post, but it also means time with a good Continue Reading
Movie review: One Day This Will All Be Yours (En dag kommer allt det här bli ditt)
(courtesy IMDb) Getting through life is hard enough without carrying along a metric ton of long buried pain and blame which neither you nor your family acknowledges but which comes along for the ride anyway but that is where Lisa (Karin Franz Körlof) finds herself in One Day This Will Continue Reading
“It’s almost time.” Loki season 2 drops a trailer, a poster and rushes off to save time and space
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“It’s almost time.” The second season of Marvel’s series Loki sees the Asgardian villain Loki working with Mobius M. Mobius, Hunter B-15, and other members of the Time Variance Authority (TVA) to navigate the multiverse in order to find Sylvie, Ravonna Renslayer, and Miss Minutes. It is Continue Reading
“This musical resistance needs us, Ernest!” Trailer drops for the adorable Ernest and Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia (Ernest et Célestine: Le voyage en Charabie)
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTErnest and Celestine return in this delightful, joyous follow-up to their first Academy Award-nominated adventure, about a bear and a mouse as the unlikeliest of friends. Ernest remains an ursine troubadour dedicated to a life of music and art, and his constant grouchiness is softened by the Continue Reading