(courtesy IMP Awards) There’s a strangely superficial idea floating in the collective thinkosphere that if something is colourful and confected and fun, it can’t possibly having any weight to it – thematic, emotional or otherwise. And while sure that’s true with some deliberately light and bright things, the collective catch-all Continue Reading
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The legend has arrived: The Monkey King makes his hilarious presence felt in new trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThe Monkey King is an action-packed family comedy that follows a rebellious and charismatic Monkey and his magical fighting Stick on an epic quest for victory over 100 demons, an eccentric Dragon King, and Monkey’s greatest foe of all — his own ego! Along the way, a Continue Reading
From Love Actually to Christmas On The Farm: how rom-coms became a festive season staple (#ChristmasInJuly curated article)
(courtesy IMP Awards) This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. It is a visual language with which we are almost all familiar. It’s cold and snowing outside, but inside, next to a crackling fire, it’s warm and cosy. The tree is Continue Reading
Featurette: How did Asteroid City come to be?
(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
Movie review: Carmen
(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
Everything good thing in this world started with dreams: Wonka drops its magically aspirational first trailer
(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
Movie review: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part 1
(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
#ChristmasInJuly movie review redux: The Grinch
(courtesy IMP Awards) For a film that’s ostensibly about a person who hates Christmas with such a ferociously ill-tempered passion that he steals it away from everyone else, The Grinch wears its Christmas-loving heart very much on its tinseled sleeve. Which really makes perfect sense since at heart The Grinch, Continue Reading
Movie review: Alcarràs #SpanishFilmFestival
(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
Movie review: Too Many Chefs (La Vida Padre) #SpanishFilmFestival
(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