(courtesy IMP Awards) If there’s one thing you likely shouldn’t do before you go to see a movie, it’s check out what one of the review aggregation sites is saying about it. Sure, it can be good to read the sites and avoid a real lemon, and that can be Continue Reading
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Movie trailer x3: Wicked: For Good + Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu + Greenland 2
(via Shutterstock) I love big, sprawling, all-encompassing blockbuster movies. Movies so epic and vast you can lose yourself in, get your escapism hit for the week/day/month and still feel some deep emotional connection and reaction to the character and stories. These three films deliver all that and a whole heap Continue Reading
Movie review: Somebody to Love aka Madly (Follemente) #IFF25
(courtesy Italian Film Festival 2025 / Palace Cinemas) In the whimsically storied realm of rom-coms, first dates are usually cutely delightful or awkwardly awful; either extreme works for establishing, and yes, we all know what’s coming, that this couple is MEANT FOR EACH OTHER. It’s obvious and lacking nuance but Continue Reading
CHRISTMAS PREVIEW: The vivaciously funny festive joy of Christmas Karma
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTAn early Xmas gift… Christmas Karma sees ones of the greatest novels – Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – transformed into a joyous, colourful, feel-good Christmas musical that celebrates modern-day London and all of its communities and cultures. Told from Chadha’s unique point of view and in Continue Reading
Movie review: Superman
(courtesy IMP Awards) If there’s one thing that I have never truly liked about superhero films, it’s how unrelatably inhuman so many of these heroes of our age seem to be. Oh, they try to make them seem like one of us, and to some extent they succeed, but even Continue Reading
Frankenstein with a delightful twist … trailer drops for adaptation of beloved book series (and graphic novel), Stitch Head
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTHigh above the little town of Grubbers Nubbin, in a castle laboratory, the maddest of all mad professors brings monstrous creations to (almost) life… and then promptly forgets all about them. So, who runs the castle? Who keeps the monsters in line, so the townsfolk don’t form Continue Reading
It’s time to Wake Up Dead Man: a Knives Out mystery (teaser trailer)
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTBenoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) returns for his most dangerous case yet in the third and darkest chapter of Rian Johnson’s murder mystery opus. When young priest Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), it’s clear that all is not Continue Reading
CHRISTMAS PREVIEW: Let it bro, let it bro, let it bro as trailer drops for A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn A Very Jonas Christmas Movie, Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas face a series of escalating obstacles as they struggle to make it from London to New York in time to spend Christmas with their families. From Disney Branded Television and 20th Television, the festive film features Continue Reading
Fall in love all over again with French Lover
(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTAbel Camara (Omar Sy) is a star, a sex symbol. A child prodigy, he grew up in front of the cameras. He who seems to have everything—success, money, and the public’s love—is going through a rough patch. Marion (Sara Giraudeau), on the other hand, is far from the Continue Reading
Retro movie review: Jaws (50th anniversary)
(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s well recognised time memories are a wholly unreliable witness. We might think we are recalling things exactly as they are, but when the truth of the matter surfaces, it soon becomes clear that we remember is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth but Continue Reading