(courtesy IMP Awards) With yet another superhero movie in the form of The Marvels beckoning us to cinemas, and a few more on the way including the upcoming DC tentpole, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, it’s likely a good time to ask whether audiences are collectively over watching superhumanly empowered Continue Reading
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Movie trailer double: Ghostbusters – Frozen Empire and Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
(Photo by Denise Jans on Unsplash) Big bold intelligent blockbusters. They are the perfect mix – epic in a way that makes going to the cinema to see them eminently worth it but full of clever ideas and compelling characters which means we’re not met with empty spectacle but thrills Continue Reading
Big changes. New emotions. Teaser trailer releases for Inside Out 2
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThe little voices inside Riley’s head know her inside and out—but next summer, everything changes. Pixar’s Inside Out 2 returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Anger, Continue Reading
Movie review: Northern Comfort #BFF23
(courtesy IMDb) Being afraid of something comes with the territory of being alive. Whether it’s an evolutionary response or simply an existential stress reaction to being human where, despite all the trappings of civilisation, there’s a lot to be afraid of, human beings tend to get anxious and afraid a Continue Reading
Oh my heart: Embrace the adorably meaningful with Teddy’s Christmas and The Velveteen Rabbit
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTWhile visiting a Christmas market in her Norwegian town, 8-year-old Mariann (starring Marte Klerck-Nilssen) suddenly sees an unbelievable sight: on the top shelf of a carnival game booth, the most adorable stuffed teddy bear has just moved his head and sneezed. Feeling an instant connection with the Continue Reading
Be careful what you wish for: Wish unveils all kinds of promotional goodies
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn Disney Animation’s Wish, Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force—a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe—the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico—to save her community and prove Continue Reading
#Halloween movie review: Haunted Mansion
(courtesy IMP Awards) Creative inspiration can come from all kinds of strange, beautiful and unexpected places – a waterfall at sunset, a colourfully-dressed woman on a train at peak hour or a snippet of history, long forgotten but dredged up to fill a social media post with a fascinating factoid. Continue Reading
Retro movie #Halloween review: Scooby-Doo! and the Witch’s Ghost
(courtesy IMDB (c) Warner Bros. Family Entertainment) Halloween would not be Halloween without Scooby-Doo! somewhere in the hauntingly spooky and hilariously freaky mix and, of course, solving a great mystery which in the case of 1999’s Scooby-Doo! and the Witch’s Ghost is literally bewitching one quaint New England town. The Continue Reading
Heading out of a crabby comfort zone in Under the Boardwalk
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTFrom the director of Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie comes a hilariously fun beach adventure for the whole family! When timid Jersey crab Armen (Michael Cera) meets bold tourist sea crab Ramona (Keke Palmer), it causes shell-shocking tension in the community. But when the duo are Continue Reading
What would you do If You Were the Last?
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAdam and Jane (Anthony Mackie and Zoe Chao) are three years into a NASA mission that has gone very wrong: Their ship is broken and drifting between Jupiter and Saturn. Finding ways to pass the time as they become certain that no one is coming to save Continue Reading