(courtesy The Movie Database) Diving back into a film you haven’t seen for 42 years can be an interesting and yes, let’s be honest, fraught experience. Will it be as good as you remember? Is it still an escapist wonderland or schlocky ’80s pulp? And does it hold up as Continue Reading
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Weekday character poster movie character art: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTA fifth movie in the Indiana Jones franchise, continuing the story after Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Starring Harrison Ford as adventurer Indiana Jones and Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Helena. The full cast also features Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Kretschmann, Boyd Holbrook, Shaunette Renée Continue Reading
A meet-cute snippet of Elemental … and some fun international character posters too
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn a city where fire, water, land, and air residents live together, a fiery young woman and a go-with-the-flow guy are about to discover something elemental: how much they actually have in common. [Elemental] features the voice talents of Leah Lewis as Ember; Mamoudou Athie as Wade; Continue Reading
Loved ones, addiction and the struggle to Stay Awake
(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTIn the debut feature, STAY AWAKE, by writer-director Jamie Sisley, brothers Ethan (Wyatt Oleff) and Derek (Fin Argus) try their best to navigate the pressures of teenage life while tending to their mother’s (Chrissy Metz) debilitating prescription drug addiction. Based on the filmmaker’s adolescence in small-town America, Stay Continue Reading
Retro movie review: The Day After Tomorrow
(courtesy IMP Awards) It turns out that the old adage that you get different things out of a film depending on in which stage of life you watch it is actually quite true. It makes sense since time does tend to change perspective and thoughtful consideration and even emotional response Continue Reading
Dance the (choreographed) night away! Barbie drops a weirdly wonderful new trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTBarbie is an upcoming romantic comedy film based on the eponymous fashion doll line by Mattel and directed by Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the screenplay with Noah Baumbach. It serves as the franchise’s first live-action film adaptation after a number of computer-animated direct-to-video and streaming TV films Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: The Creator, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 and Killers of the Flower Moon
(via Shutterstock) It’s almost blockbuster time, people! That time of the year when the movies go BIG based on budgets that are BIG with (hopefully) BIG stories and characters of depth and quality to match. We don’t always get that but a guy can hope, can’t he? Certainly, these three Continue Reading
Movie review: Franky Five Star (German Film Festival)
(courtesy IMDb) Beloved though the established romantic comedy tropes and cliches may be, there is something refreshing about a film that dares to take them all, throw them in the air, and smartly and quirkily rearrange on their way down. A film like Franky Five Star which takes the rom-com Continue Reading
Heroically beyond Gaul: Asterix & Obelix – The Middle Kingdom (L’empire du milieu)
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTPrincess Fu Yi, the only daughter of the Chinese Emperor Han Xuandi, escapes from a rogue prince, Deng Tsin Qin, and flees to Gaul, seeking help from Asterix and Obelix. (courtesy Wikipedia) I can remember exactly when in my long-go childhood that I discovered the comic book Continue Reading
“Look alive, foolish mortals!” First full-length ghostly trailer releases for Haunted Mansion
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTInspired by the classic theme park attraction, Disney’s Haunted Mansion is about a woman and her son who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters. Disney’s Haunted Mansion movie is directed by the American filmmaker Justin Simien, director Continue Reading