(via Shutterstock) Comedy is hit or miss, it’s true but if a creator gets it right, then on the soul-lightening joys that await! Life is so damn serious, dark and a thousand kinds of terrible all jostling for a place in our crowded slate of existential angst, and yet there Continue Reading
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First hunt. Last chance. Teaser trailer releases for Predator: Badlands
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThe sci-fi action movie Predator: Badlands is set in the future on a remote planet, where a young Predator (starring Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), outcast from his clan, finds an unlikely ally with Thia (Elle Fanning) and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary. Predator: Continue Reading
Movie review: The Penguin Lessons
(courtesy IMP Awards) At first glance, you may not think there’s a great deal of emotional depth to The Penguin Lessons. This is not even remotely a criticism of the film adapted from the memoir of the same name by Tom Michell; it’s simply to say that the trailer suggests Continue Reading
Trailers upon trailers upon … The Life of Chuck, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, 28 Years Later, Thunderbolts* + Jurassic World: Rebirth …
(via Shutterstock) Whenever I see a blockbuster movie trailer, and this post is packed to the epic rafters with them, I am immediately taken back to being a wide-eyes kid who would see trailers for the likes of Star Wars: A New Hope and E.T. and get a visceral, fizzy Continue Reading
AFFFF25 movie review: In the Sub for Love (A toute allure)
(courtesy Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2025) As premises for romantic comedies go, and let’s face it they are as wide and different as the days in the middle of summer are long, In the Sub for Love (A toute allure) has an absolute cracker. A handsome male flight attendant, Continue Reading
More delightfully quirky Wes Anderson goodness coming up in the beguiling The Phoenician Scheme
(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTThe story of a family and a family business. A dark tale of espionage following a strained father-daughter relationship within a family business. Wes Anderson’s unique twists revolve around betrayal and morally gray choices in this spy comedy thriller. The Phoenician Scheme is both written and directed by Continue Reading
Movie trailer double! Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and Ocean with David Attenborough
(via Shutterstock) My cinematic tastes are nothing if not eclectic, and if you need proof of that, take in the two choices for this movie trailer double. The grand finale to a two-parter of possibly one of the greatest action movie franchises ever shares space with the legendary Sir David Continue Reading
Worlds … will … collide … Tron: Ares delivers an impressively intense first trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTTron: Ares follows a highly sophisticated program, Ares (starring Jared Leto), who is sent from the digital world into the real world on a dangerous mission, marking humankind’s first encounter with A.I. beings. The highly anticipated sequel to the sci-fi classics Tron (1982) and Tron: Legacy (2010). Continue Reading
Movie review: The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
(courtesy IMP Awards) Nostalgia, handled carefully, can be a wonderful thing. You can relive and renew your love for something that gave you, and likely still gives you, great joy, and as long as it doesn’t ensnare and entrap you from adding to your living library of life experiences, you Continue Reading
AFFFF25 movie review: Meet the Leroys (Nous, les Leroy)
(courtesy IMDb) The end of something is always bittersweet. Even the final moments of something awful comes with a sense of mourning for what otherwise might have been; but when it’s something like a marriage between two people who were once genuinely in love, that sense of loss and grief Continue Reading