(via Shutterstock) Super Bowl is HUGE. HUGE HUGE … HUGE. Apparently it’s a football game, so I’m told and – and here’s who won if that matters to you – but it’s also a chance for a metric ton of advertising of all kinds of items and, happily for those Continue Reading
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Movie review: Orion and the Dark
(courtesy IMP Awards) Human beings are built to be afraid. Not in a debilitating way, of course, but in a good, fight-or-flight piece of evolutionary triumphing where we assess threats and get away from them before they can get to us. In that respect, it works well; but what if Continue Reading
Movie review: Riceboy Sleeps
(courtesy IMDb) Identity cuts sharply and deeply into what it means to be human. This foundational truth is on affectingly thoughtful display throughout Anthony Shim’s 1990s-set Riceboy Sleeps, which tells the story of So-Young (Choi Seung-yoon), a single mother from South Korea who emigrates to Canada, and specifically Vancouver, in Continue Reading
Shhh! Hear how it all began with the trailer for A Quiet Place: Day One
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTA Quiet Place: Day One is an upcoming American post-apocalyptic horror prequel. A woman fights for survival during an alien invasion in New York City – the rest of the plot is being kept under wraps for now. A Quiet Place: Day One is directed by American Continue Reading
“Every life ends …” Facing death in the most unexpected way with upcoming film, Tuesday
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTA mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird. From debut filmmaker Daina O. Pusić, Tuesday is a heart-rending fairy tale about the echoes of loss and finding resilience in the unexpected. Tuesday is both written Continue Reading
Movie review: Poor Things
(courtesy IMP Awards) Despite all the abundant evidence to the contrary, most people still adhere to the fairytale notion that life is orderly and predictable, a rom-com meets Hallmark card mentality that believes wholeheartedly that everything will work out just fine in the end, just believe. But of course, fervently Continue Reading
Who ya gonna … well, you know … Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire debuts full trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the Spengler family returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the discovery of Continue Reading
Movie review: All of Us Strangers
(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s a distinctly odd thing when grief finally and fully gets its murderous hooks into you. All of your life up until that point, you are told what grief is, what it looks like and the kind of trajectory it will follow which is, we’re told, much Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie and streaming trailers: Spaceman, Robot Dreams, Constellation, Ripley + Alexander: the Making of a God
(via Shutterstock) Isn’t it weird to be a little relieved that things a tad quiet on the movie and streaming front atm? Clearly not whisper quiet since this post has five trailers, among many currently out there in the world, but quieter than the usual end-of-year-get-this-thing-eligible-for-the-Oscars frantic which is fun Continue Reading
Movie review: The Holdovers
(courtesy IMP Awards) You only have to be alive and in the thick of life for a very short time to realise that at any given time, our lives balance on a wafer thin ledge between bracing hope and searing reality. We obviously want to believe we will tip over Continue Reading