(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
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Look! Lots o’ movie trailers: Dune 2, Bank of Dave, Scrapper, Happiness for Beginners and Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
(Photo by Dim Hou on Unsplash) The middle of the year is a busy one for moviegoers. Whether you’re darkening the doors of your favourite cinema complex or flicking on your preferred streaming platform, there’s a lot of cinematic content to get to and a lot of deliciously immersive storytelling Continue Reading
Retro movie review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
(courtesy IMP Awards) While review aggregation sites like Rotten Tomatoes may give Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull a buoyantly healthy 77% rating, there seems to an anecdotal tendency to dismiss the film as the weakest of the four Indy films released before, of course, the just-released Continue Reading
Weekend movie character poster art – Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One
Tom Cruise (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the Continue Reading
Movie trailer double: The Beanie Bubble + Millie Lies Low
(Photo by Dayne Topkin on Unsplash) Quirk and drama go together more easily than you might expect. These two trailers prove that you can be both narratively dramatic and quirkily upbeat and still live to tell a wholly engaging and meaningful cinematic story. Because when you think about people are Continue Reading
Movie review: You Hurt My Feelings
(courtesy IMP Awards) Even the most honest among us has, at some point or another (or, let’s be honest, many, many points), told a white lie to grease the wheels of social interaction. We may not like something someone’s created or the way they do one aspect of their job Continue Reading
Retro movie review: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
(courtesy IMP Awards) The meek, the Bible opines, shall inherit the Earth, but after the riotously fun and religiously-laden delights of 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, you might wonder whether the titular character doesn’t have a better than average chance of taking that inheritance as his own. Five Continue Reading
Movie review: Elemental
(courtesy IMP Awards) We are paradoxical creatures when it comes to watched entertainment. We want to both escape into places so wildly different and vibrantly escapist that the humdrum of the day-to-day world fades to the lingering whispers of a dull roar but we want to find something in all Continue Reading
They did what?! Yup, They Cloned Tyrone (poster + trailer)
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTA pulpy, sci-fi mystery caper in which an unlikely trio investigates a series of eerie events, alerting them to a nefarious conspiracy lurking directly beneath their hood. Fontaine, a neighborhood drug dealer, is shot dead by rival Isaac and then is very shocked to wake up in Continue Reading
A mini-mass of animated trailers: Elio, Nimona and Mickey Mouse’s Steamboat Silly
(via Shutterstock) As an artform, animation promises so much and often delivers even more. Not constrained by the bounds of physics or probability, animated creations can tell all kinds of unlikely and heartfelt stories, fuelled by vibrant imagination and clever inventiveness, and immerse us in worlds we might never have Continue Reading