(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTFrom DreamWorks Animation comes a new adaptation of a literary sensation – Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot. The epic sci-fi adventure story follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited Continue Reading
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Movie review: Thelma
(courtesy IMP Awards) Hollywood of chock full of movies based on real events, and given the predisposition and often narrative need to embellish even the most impressive of real world events, you often have to wonder just how much truth lurks within the folds of the often inventive storyline. In Continue Reading
Ho Ho (Summery) Ho! Get ready for A Sudden Case of Christmas
(courtesy YAHOO!) SNAPSHOTAn American couple bring their 10 year old daughter, Claire, to her grandfather Lawrence’S hotel in The Dolomites, Italy. They usually come for Christmas but this year it’s August. The fact is they are breaking up and want Lawrence to be the one to tell Claire, especially as Continue Reading
Movie review: Touch (Snerting)
(courtesy IMP Awards) There is an aching beauty and hopefulness to Touch that very quickly digs down into your soul. In this exquisitely soulful and thoughtful film, directed by Baltasar Kormákur to a screenplay by Kormákur and Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson (who wrote the book on which it’s based), themes of Continue Reading
“I believe in glasses half-full and silver linings…” First trailer for stop-motion gem, Memoir of a Snail by Adam Elliot
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTOriginal intro from Annecy: “Grace Pudel is a lonely misfit with an affinity for collecting ornamental snails and an intense love for books. At a young age, when Grace is separated from her fire-breathing twin brother Gilbert, she falls into a spiral of anxiety and angst. Despite Continue Reading
Movie review: Alien – Romulus
(courtesy IMP Awards) An inescapable part of every movie that falls into the now venerable Alien franchise, now in its 45th year, is how starkly monstrous and otherworldly the xenomorphs are. Everything about them feels alien, hence the title, and it horrifies us that anything that primal and darkly dangerous Continue Reading
“The mood swings! That one looks fun.” Inside Out 2’s delightfully funny missing scene
(courtesy Inside Out 2) SNAPSHOTThe little voices inside Riley’s head know her inside and out—but this summer, everything changes. Pixar’s Inside Out 2 returns to the mind of newly minted teenager Riley as headquarters is undergoing a sudden demolition to make room for something entirely unexpected: new Emotions! Joy, Sadness, Continue Reading
“I LOVE epic journeys!” Join Nemo & Dory and Coco and the Incredibles and more on all-new LEGO Pixar Bricktoon adventures
SNAPSHOTLEGO Pixar: BrickToons is a TV series for Disney+ featuring classic Pixar characters. Join some of your favorite LEGO Pixar characters for all-new adventures! Sing along with Miguel in the Land of the Dead (from Coco), help Merida and her brothers through a beary rocky situation (from Brave), take an Continue Reading
Movie review: IF
(courtesy IMP Awards) There is a fine line between laudable intent and misfired execution in Hollywood and IF, unfortunately sails right through and over it, and around it, landing somewhere far away from where you can tell writer-director John Krasinski meant it to. It’s a pity because there’s such a Continue Reading
Wi-fi is not the only connection that matters: Thoughts on Backyard Wilderness
There is always something inherently restorative about watching a nature documentary that takes you quietly and with real fascination through the seasonal cycles of one specific location. You feel, almost immediately, as if you are immersed in this world, a feeling heightened to a wholly rewarding degree in Backyard Wilderness, Continue Reading