Movies

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTDirector Wes Anderson spoke to Kodak about how he created the distinctive desert town for his film Asteroid City. He explained how they first had to find the perfect location (Chinchón, Spain) and then built era-appropriate buildings and theme-centred accoutrements from there. He then shot it all Continue Reading

(courtesy IMP Awards) Losing yourself in a film is one of life’s greatest gifts. There’s something about the aura and atmosphere of a well-made, lushly-conceived movie, especially seen as the cinema gods intended on the big screen, that lets slip all the cares and concerns of the world and plunges Continue Reading

(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

(courtesy IMP Awards) Blockbusters, at least the big, loud, sprawling modern variant that take up gigantic screen but leave little lasting impression in their wake, aren’t supposed to have any emotional impact on you. They are supposed to come in , wow you with spectacle writ large, impress with breakneck Continue Reading

(courtesy IMP Awards) Having your world blown apart is never an easy thing to handle, especially when that world has been formed over decades and generations and occupies a place in your heart and family lore that is woven into the fabric of who you are so deeply, strongly and Continue Reading

(courtesy IMDb) It takes a deft hand to make a sparkling comedy also hum meaningfully with emotional substance but director Joaquín Mazón, working to a story he co-penned with Olatz Arroyo which as written by Joaquín Oristrellm manages it near flawlessly in Too Many Chefs (La Vida Padre). The film Continue Reading

(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTAkira Tendo (Eiji Akaso) works at an abusive, soul-crushing company where he suffers endless late hours, power harassment from his boss, and illogical tasks. He spends his days feeling more dead than alive. One morning, the town is overtaken by zombies and the familiar landscape is already Continue Reading

(courtesy IMP Awards) Approaching the ending of anything feels fraught and emotionally difficult. We all want and need goodbyes because open-ended anything isn’t good for the answers-hungry soul, unless it applies to indie and arthouse storytelling in which bring it on, but we dread them too because, for obvious reasons, Continue Reading