SNAPSHOTIn Free Guy, a bank teller who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, decides to become the hero of his own story … one he rewrites himself. Now in a world where there are no limits, he is determined to be the guy who Continue Reading
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Movie review: The Water Man
“Hope is a powerful force. It made you see what you wanted to see. It made you see … ME.” There is an immense power at the heart what might seem to be a fairly straightforward film. That power takes for the form of hope, which might be dismissed by Continue Reading
Growing up is a beast: Pixar’s Turning Red releases teaser trailer + poster
SNAPSHOTTurning Red will be led by young actress Rosalie Chiang as she lends her voice to Mei Lee, a 13-year-old who suddenly “poofs” into a giant red panda when she gets too excited. Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) voices Mei Lee’s protective, if not slightly overbearing mother, Ming, who is never Continue Reading
Movie review: Black Widow
If there is one glaring side effect of the current surfeit of Marvel films now out in an increasingly superhero-overwhelmed world, although to be fair Black Widow is the first release in the MCU since July 2019 (Spiderman: Far From Home), it’s that everything is starting to merge together into Continue Reading
Retro animated movie review: Monsters Inc. #Happy20thAnniversary
Watching Monsters, Inc. after a lamentable gap of twenty years is akin to catching up with a close friend you once adored and loved, and deep down still do, but with whom you’ve had little to no contact since you saw them last. As you begin to get re-acquainted, it Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Lorelei, Little Q, The Evening Hour, Encanto, The Addams Family 2
Still in lockdown and still in need of cinematic diversion. It seems to be that at those times when you can’t go out and see the world – I am trapped inside an apartment in a locked down city in a state shut off all the others in a country Continue Reading
Psst! We’re fairly sure that Ron’s Gone Wrong … but he might be your “Best Friend Out of the Box”!
SNAPSHOTRon’s Gone Wrong will feature a touching and hilarious look at the budding friendship between a middle-school boy and his faulty robot. It tells the story of Barney, a socially awkward middle-schooler and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally-connected device, which is supposed to be his “Best Friend Out of Continue Reading
Movie review: The Tomorrow War
There are times when you crave, when you need, a big heapin’ helpin’ of big dumb blockbuster fun. Switch off the brain, park your critical faculties in neutral and surrender yourself to a glorious onslaught of sight, sound and action that’s bonkers bananas and yet somehow weirdly satisfying. Technically that Continue Reading
Weekday poster pop art: Jungle Cruise debuts new character images
SNAPSHOTInspired by the famous Disneyland theme park ride, Disney’s Jungle Cruise is an adventure-filled, rollicking thrill-ride down the Amazon with wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff and intrepid researcher Dr. Lily Houghton. Lily travels from London, England to the Amazon jungle and enlists Frank’s questionable services to guide her downriver on La Continue Reading
Movie review: Good on Paper
The habitually cynical and mistrusting excepted, people are by and large quite willing to believe the best of someone else. It makes sense – we want a world in which people are who they say they are, in which those in whom we placed our trust and with whom we Continue Reading