(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
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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
Movie review: The Marvels
(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
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