SNAPSHOTScooby-Doo and Shaggy’s favorite holiday is upon us! With fake monsters and candy galore, Halloween is heaven for these hungry foodies going door-to-door. But this year, their sweet holiday turns sour when the neighborhood pumpkin patch is infected by toxic ooze, creating high-flying jack-o-lanters, and a king-sized pumpkin leader squashing Continue Reading
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Pop culture festiveness! The 5 ornaments I hung on my #ChristmasInJuly tree
I have put up a Christmas in July tree! Those who know me well will not be surprised by this at all, since I love Christmas with the same fervour and passion that I reserve for caramel cheesecake and releases of new books by my favourite authors. But in previous Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: “B is for Ben” and the problems of leaving an alien planet
SNAPSHOTBen is having problems getting back to his spaceship on a stranded desert planet. He is an astronaut, he has gadgets, what could go wrong? (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Hands up anyone who wants to be stuck on an arid alien planet? No one? Thought so. Into that large number, Continue Reading
Believing is everything: Over the Moon and the magically propulsive power of hope
SNAPSHOTFueled with determination and a passion for science, a bright young girl builds a rocket ship to the moon to prove the existence of a legendary Moon Goddess. There she ends up on an unexpected quest and discovers a whimsical land of fantastical creatures. Directed by animation legend Glen Keane, Continue Reading
Movie review: Eurovision Song Contest – The Story of Fire Saga
The Eurovision Song Contest, whether you love it, hate it or are blissfully indifferent to it, is almost impossible to ignore. Taking place usually in May in the nominated city of whichever country won the event the year before (COVID-19 plagued years like 2020 aside), and established in the wake Continue Reading
Find your heart at the top of the world in The Sunlit Night
SNAPSHOTBased on author Rebecca Dinerstein’s novel, The Sunlit Night follows the story of an aspiring painter from New York City to the farthest reaches of Arctic Norway for an assignment she hopes will invigorate her work and expand her horizons. In a remote village, among the locals, she meets a Continue Reading
How far would you go to bring back the one you love? Archive asks the big questions
SNAPSHOT2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI. His latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest. Especially as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs: being reunited with his dead wife. (synopsis via ScreenRealm) When you lose someone you Continue Reading
Time to go to Palm Springs … again … and again … and again … and, well, you get the picture …
SNAPSHOTWhen carefree Nyles (Andy Samberg) and reluctant maid of honor Sarah (Cristin Milioti) have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, of each other. Alongside Golden Globe winner Samberg (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, SNL), Palm Springs also stars Cristin Milioti (The Continue Reading
Will you survive? COVID-19 and social isolation explained by a supercut of horror and sci-fi films
COVID-19 just won’t go away will it? It has wiped normal off the agenda as an everyday concept, caused untold misery, loss and heartache and changed life as we know it for the considerable future. We have all muddled through as best we can but is there a better way? Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: Alive, 7500, Blithe Spirit
Zombies and ghosts and … airline pilots? Oh my! Today’s mini-mass of trailers is a mixed bunch but all of them involve peril of one kind or another, which makes for the best kind of visceral drama. With COVID-19 continuing to lay waste to our world and to any concept Continue Reading