(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“This is a fight for our very existence.” Amid a future sci-fi war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, Joshua, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect Continue Reading
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Never underestimate a Dublin woman with a guitar: The transformative power of music comes to the fore in Flora and Son
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTSingle mom Flora (Eve Hewson) is at a loss about what to do with her rebellious teenage son, Max (Orén Kinan). Encouraged by the police to find Max a hobby, Flora tries to occupy him with a beat-up acoustic guitar. With the help of a washed-up LA Continue Reading
Where the real world and imagination meet: Winnie-the-Pooh & the Hundred-Acre Wood
(courtesy Wikipedia) SNAPSHOTIn this video, we’ll look at the story of how Winnie-the-Pooh pays so much attention to place, and how the map of the Hundred-Acre Wood, drawn by E.H. Shepard, allows us all to visit childhood for a little while. (courtesy Laughing Squid (c) Great Maps Explained) One of Continue Reading
Old flames reconnect in Meg Ryan rom-com What Happens Later
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTTwo ex lovers, Bill (David Duchovny) and Willa (Meg Ryan) get snowed in at a regional airport overnight. Indefinitely delayed, Willa, a magical thinker, and Bill, a catastrophic one, find themselves just as attracted to and annoyed by one another as they did decades earlier. But as Continue Reading
Movie review: Theater Camp
(courtesy IMP Awards) Mockumentaries are curious beasts. On the one hand, they give creators a golden opportunity to skewer a whole herd of sacred cows purely by positioning a person in a situation that is so eerily close to what it is in real life that telling the difference between Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Shortcomings, A Fluorescent Sky, Landscape With Invisible Hand, Grey Matter + Fremont
(Photo by Meg Boulden on Unsplash) There are times, and granted they are few, where I begin to tire of going to the cinema, feeling as if I have watched too many films and gone out too many nights after work and that I should just rest up and forgo Continue Reading
War comes to every world: Rebel Moon releases official teaser 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: Nimona
(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s a rare thing indeed to walk away from a movie, any movie, glorying in how absolutely perfect it is. There’s always an imperfection somewhere, a moment, however fleeting where you think the narrative baton was dropped or some dialogue jarred a little too much, and while Continue Reading
Mini mass of movie trailers: Maestro, A Million Miles Away, Uproar, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt and Poor Things
(via Shutterstock) When life feels like a ton of bricks weighing down upon a bowing back, stories are the one thing you an count on to transport you away from it all and make things feel less heavy, more full of life. It’s even better when you can experience the Continue Reading
Movie review: Asteroid City
(courtesy IMP Awards) If you head into Asteroid City, Wes Anderson’s latest retro pastel-toned opus expecting a coherent story and a hard-hitting message-rich narrative you may be disappointed. That’s not to say it’s lacking in either of those two things; in fact, as storytellers go, Anderson is very good at Continue Reading