(courtesy IMP Awards) The really great animated films, the one that capture your heart and delight the eyes, are the ones that give you something to really connect to and which make you feel like you’ve come home. Yes, home. That might seem like an odd thing to say about Continue Reading
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Short film review: The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar
(courtesy IMDb (c) Netflix) Talk about a marriage made in storytelling heaven. The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar brings together the Roald Dahl story which is part of a 1977 short story collection by the author entitled The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar and Six More – the book also Continue Reading
Movie review: Killers of the Flower Moon
(courtesy IMP Awards) Though people are apt to embrace the past with its proven ability to soothe with nostalgia and to warm with sweet memories, they are less inclined to wade into its sometimes murky waters when there is an accounting to be made. Especially when such an accounting lays Continue Reading
Weekend movie poster art: The magical chocolatey wonder of Wonka
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTBased on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl’s most iconic children’s book & one of the best-selling children’s books of all time, Wonka tells the wondrous story of how the world’s greatest inventor, and magician, and chocolate-maker became the Continue Reading
Movie review: Eight Mountains #IFF23
(courtesy IMP Awards) At one key point in this quietly immersive but immensely emotionally powerful film, one of the two men, Pietro aka Berio (Luca Marinelli), whose lifelong friendship forms the beating hear of Le Otto Montagne (The Eight Mountains) admits that he and his bestie Bruno (Alessandro Borghi) are Continue Reading
Mallards in a rut find a whole world waiting for them in Migration’s third trailer
SNAPSHOTThe Mallard family is in a bit of rut. While dad Mack is content to keep his family safe paddling around their New England pond forever, mom Pam is eager to shake things up and show their kids—teen son Dax and duckling daughter Gwen—the whole wide world. After a migrating Continue Reading
“Every good thing in this world started with dreams… so you hold onto yours.” Wonka drops its second fabulous trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTBased on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl’s most iconic children’s book & one of the best-selling children’s books of all time, Wonka tells the wondrous story of how the world’s greatest inventor, and magician, and chocolate-maker became the Continue Reading
What’s Christmas without a little terror? Be careful what you wish for with Candy Cane Lane teaser
(courtesy YouTube (c) Prime Video) SNAPSHOTEddie Murphy stars in this holiday comedy adventure about a man on a mission to win his neighborhood’s annual Christmas home decoration contest. After Chris (Eddie Murphy) inadvertently makes a deal with a mischievous elf named Pepper (Jillian Bell) to better his chances of winning, Continue Reading
Movie review: The Creator
(courtesy IMP Awards) One of the things that’s so appealing about science fiction and that makes it such an engrossing genre in which to immerse yourself is its seemingly infinite capacity for carrying all kinds of ideas, both big and small. All storytelling does this, of course, but somehow science Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: A Happy Day, Match Me if You Can, Nyad, Quiz Lady, One life + Fingernails
(via Shutterstock) Whether it’s heading out to a darkened cinema with wine and popcorn in hand, or snuggled up at home streaming on a device on your choice, there’s no doubt that movies gift with us with some pretty amazing stories. The fact that we can lose ourselves in these Continue Reading