(via Shutterstock) One of my happy places is a cinema. Or perhaps more accurately, going to see movies; much of that has to do with the film itself of course, of which there are three fine upcoming titles showcased in this post, but it also means time with a good Continue Reading
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Movie review: One Day This Will All Be Yours (En dag kommer allt det här bli ditt)
(courtesy IMDb) Getting through life is hard enough without carrying along a metric ton of long buried pain and blame which neither you nor your family acknowledges but which comes along for the ride anyway but that is where Lisa (Karin Franz Körlof) finds herself in One Day This Will Continue Reading
“It’s almost time.” Loki season 2 drops a trailer, a poster and rushes off to save time and space
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“It’s almost time.” The second season of Marvel’s series Loki sees the Asgardian villain Loki working with Mobius M. Mobius, Hunter B-15, and other members of the Time Variance Authority (TVA) to navigate the multiverse in order to find Sylvie, Ravonna Renslayer, and Miss Minutes. It is Continue Reading
“This musical resistance needs us, Ernest!” Trailer drops for the adorable Ernest and Celestine: A Trip to Gibberitia (Ernest et Célestine: Le voyage en Charabie)
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTErnest and Celestine return in this delightful, joyous follow-up to their first Academy Award-nominated adventure, about a bear and a mouse as the unlikeliest of friends. Ernest remains an ursine troubadour dedicated to a life of music and art, and his constant grouchiness is softened by the Continue Reading
Movie review: Oppenheimer
(courtesy IMP Awards) As a general rule, we like to think of history as a thing of clean, linear beauty – x happens, y results and time marches inexorably and uncomplicatedly on, consequence following action over and over until fact stacks upon fact and the story of humanity is told Continue Reading
Higher. Further. Faster. Together. The Marvels has a new trailer and poster
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTCarol Danvers (Brie Larson) aka Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. But unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe. When she discovers an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers Continue Reading
Movie review: The Land of Short Sentences (meteri sekundet)
(courtesy IMDb) Marie (Sofie Torp) and Rasmus (Thomas Hwan) are in love. Really, really, all-in, in love, the beating of Danish film Meter i sekundet (The Land of Short Sentences). He’s an up-and-coming poet, big on the Copenhagen artistic scene, and she’s a bon vivant city dweller and writer who Continue Reading
#ChristmasInJuly review redux: Dare to fall in love with Dash & Lily
If you are one of a more romantic persuasion than most, then you will find a great deal to like about a show that combines romantic comedy and Christmas, two genres that together account for much of the swoon-worthy, sigh-worthy, rose-coloured glass wearing wonder that makes the escapist part of Continue Reading
Weekend character poster pop art: The multi-coloured fun and meaning of Barbie
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTBarbie is a … 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
Mini mass of movie trailers: Aporia, Problemista Jules, Love at First Sight and Migration
(via Shutterstock) Cinema is back baby! Fresh from attending a mid-week preview of screening of Barbie which was packed full of men and women in shockingly fabulous shades of luminescent pink, and hearing tales of subsequent sold-out nights of Barbie and Oppenheimer – released on the same day in a Continue Reading