(courtesy IMDb (c) Netflix) In the third instalment of the Dutch Christmas film series – read reviews of Claus Family 1 and Claus Family 2 – it becomes increasingly apparent that, rather joyfully the grief that marked the first entry in the series and its lingering effects in movie number Continue Reading
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On 1st day of Christmas … I put 15 new pop culture ornaments on my tree incl. Ted Lasso, Schitt’s Creek, Shazam, Peter Pan, Peanuts … and more!
(via Shutterstock) Take one look at this blog and you realise I love pop culture. LOVE IT! So while the first ornaments I bought for my own grown-up tree in 1992 were relatively standard baubles and department store trinkets, soon followed by Hallmark ornaments by the metric ton, I soon Continue Reading
Festive movie review: The Naughty Nine
(courtesy Twitter / X) If there’s one trend emerging in this year’s crop of streaming Christmas releases – this is quite apart from the usual Hallmark etc romcoms which exist in blissfully trope-heavy world of their own – it’s that the writers and producers have taken a look at what’s Continue Reading
Christmas movie review: Candy Cane Lane
(courtesy First Showing) Decorating for Christmas is supposed to be one of life’s sparkly, pretty quiet joys. Throw some lights onto your house and thread them through the trees and bushes of your front garden, put up a few figures or two of Santa and his sleigh or some elves Continue Reading
Animated festive movie festival: The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday + Trolls Holiday
(courtesy IMP Awards) The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday So, you’re likely used to the rather appealing idea that Christmas is all giving and doing unto others etc and not about grabbing and stealing and having a narcissistic time of it. Well established as that may be as a Continue Reading
Festive movie review: 1000km From Christmas (A mil kilómetros de la Navidad)
(courtesy IMDb (c) Netflix) If you’re a Christmas-aholic or a Christmas tragic or whatever term of festive devotion is near and dear to your tinsel-filled heart, you might find it odd, nay perplexing, that anyone might not love the most wonderful time of the year quite like you do. After Continue Reading
Birthday movie review: One Life
(courtesy IMP Awards) If you haven’t directly exposed to the horrific vague ways in which people treat each other in war, violence and conflict, and how malevolently destructive extremist beliefs can be, it can be hard for them to move beyond the realm of dark and terrible things. We know Continue Reading
Time to face your fears with Orion and the Dark
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTOrion (Jacob Tremblay) seems a lot like your average elementary school kid – shy, unassuming, harboring a secret crush. But underneath his seemingly normal exterior, Orion is a ball of adolescent anxiety, completely consumed by irrational fears of bees, dogs, the ocean, cell phone waves, murderous gutter Continue Reading
Movie review: Quiz Lady
(courtesy IMP Awards) Everyone who’s ever undergone trauma has their own personal port-in-a-storm coping strategy. Some aren’t healthy while some are so beige healthy they border on a benign obsession which is precisely where Quiz Lady, directed by Jessica You to a script by Jen D’Angelo, finds its titular protagonist Continue Reading
There are no heroes. Only rebels. Blast off with the Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire 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