SNAPSHOTThe upcoming musical … centers [sic] on Regina Fuller (The Good Fight‘s Christine Baranski), “a rich and nasty woman [who] returns to her small hometown after her father’s death to evict everyone and sell the land to a mall developer, right before Christmas. However, after listening to stories of the Continue Reading
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Movie review: On the Rocks
Ah, the bright and fizzy effervescence of new love! When Cupid’s arrow does its much-romanced about thing, and we are swept up into the gushing thrills of getting to know that special someone, it’s almost impossible to believe that there will be any dimming of the ardour and the passion. Continue Reading
Will Christmas endure? Find out in The Christmas Chronicles 2
SNAPSHOTIt’s been two years since siblings Kate (Darby Camp) and Teddy Pierce (Judah Lewis) saved Christmas, and a lot has changed. Kate, now a cynical teenager, is reluctantly spending Christmas in Cancun with her mom’s new boyfriend and his son Jack (Jahzir Bruno). Unwilling to accept this new version of Continue Reading
Movie review: The Forty-Year-Old Version
Is there an expiry date on your hopes and dreams? There shouldn’t be since, if you’re open to them, hopes and dreams should be the magical momentum that sustains you throughout the course of your life, but for Radha in The Forty-Year-Old Version, it is increasingly feeling like any chance Continue Reading
Movie review: The Last Black Man in San Francisco
Belonging is a powerful thing for anyone. Whether it is to a person or a place or a group of some kind, we all need to feel like we have somewhere to call our own, a sanctuary from the vicissitudes of life, an anchor in a world all too ready Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: Hillbilly Elegy, Sylvie’s Love, I’m Your Woman + news on new Sandra Bullock film
Let’s hear it for streaming platforms when it comes to watching films in the time of COVID. While my preference is always to see films on the big screen in the darkness and escape of a movie theatre, the reality is that even where cinemas are open and operating, getting Continue Reading
COVID-19 retro movie festival: Farmageddon #MovieReview
One of the great enduring joys of any movie or TV show that comes from Aardman Animations is the cheekiness and sense of fun that infuses every last frame. Movies like Chicken Run (2000), Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005) and Arthur Christmas (2011), and now, of Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The whimsical joy of Accidentally Wes Anderson
SNAPSHOTJoin us to discover the most interesting and idiosyncratic places on Earth. Inspired by the unique vision of director Wes Anderson’s films, this book travels to every continent to tell the extraordinary and unexpected true stories behind more than two hundred stunning locations. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Plague-ridden 2020 has Continue Reading
Movie review: The High Note
There are, so we are told, only so many story types in circulation. Which means, of course, that even when you try to be blisteringly original, you are usually, no matter how hard to try or how much imagination you bring to the narrative table, repeating much of which has Continue Reading
Haha – Free Guy may be coming to a cinema near you in December … or not … or it might … or it might not …
SNAPSHOTIn the vein of hits such as Wreck-It-Ralph, Free Guy will follow a background character who discovers he lives in a video game and works to prevent the makers of the game from shutting it down with the help of an avatar. (synopsis courtesy Coming Soon) If there was a Continue Reading