SNAPSHOTEurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga is an upcoming American comedy film directed by David Dobkin, written by Andrew Steele and Will Ferrell and starring Ferrell, Rachel McAdams, Pierce Brosnan, Dan Stevens and Demi Lovato. The film follows Icelandic singers Lars Erickssong and Sigrit Ericksdottir as they are Continue Reading
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At home COVID-19 French Film Festival: Crash Test Aglaé
Trauma affects us all in different ways. Some people bury the resulting hurt and pain so deeply that it never sees the light of day again, pretending that everything is fine, just fine thank you, while others exhume it, sort through it and dispense with it, glad it has been Continue Reading
Movie review: Uncorked
Whether they are self-imposed or imposed from outside, the weight of expectations can weight heavily on someone’s life. While the more militant among us might decry the pressure these expectations bring and simply urge those afflicted to push them off and carry on as if they were never there, the Continue Reading
At home COVID-19 French Film Festival: Gaspard at the Wedding (Gaspard Va Au Mariage) #MovieReview
Released in 2017, Gaspard va au Mariage or Gaspard at the Wedding is a genre defier par excellence. With an adroit narrative zest courtesy of writer/director Antony Cordier, the film leaps with beguiling, quirky grace from romantic comedy to lo-fi family drama to a gently farcical comedy, all while remaining Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Hey Gunther – who are you really?
SNAPSHOT“Günther [is] a rather surreal, but humorous animated short that features a naked hot dog named Günther who dances his way across a quest to find out exactly who he is. Along the way, he comes across some very colorful characters performing all sorts of tasks of the nonsensical variety. Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The Orchestra and a world filled with beautiful music
SNAPSHOTImagine a world where a band of tiny musicians follow you and play a soundtrack for your life – communicating your emotions, fears and hopes. In this world lives elderly Vernon; a lonely man whose crippling shyness causes his orchestral musicians to perform terribly out of tune. When Vernon and Continue Reading
Movie review: The Willoughbys
You may not think that a story of horrifically neglectful parents, starving children (emotionally and physically) and gothic hilarity told through vividly manic animation where the colours and sheer force of imagination are in perfect sync would be a good idea or come even remotely close to working, but it Continue Reading
Embrace portentous mystery: Head into The Vast of Night
SNAPSHOT“In the twilight of the 1950s, on one fateful night in New Mexico, a young, winsome switchboard operator Fay (Sierra McCormick) and charismatic radio DJ Everett (Jake Horowitz) discover a strange audio frequency that could change their small town and the future forever. Dropped phone calls, AM radio signals, secret Continue Reading
What makes Chewbacca tick? Looper entertainingly explores his backstory this Star Wars Day #Maythe4thBeWithYou
SNAPSHOTWhy is his weapon so different from almost everyone else’s? Why does he talk like that when he clearly understands different languages? Is Chewbacca his actual given name? We took a deep dive into Star Wars lore to find what makes this Wookiee tick. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Poor Chewie. Continue Reading
COVID-19 self-isolation getting you down? Stress not – Kermit the Frog’s is here to sweetly cheer you up
Kermit the Frog has always the Muppet balm for a troubled soul. And it’s not exaggerating things to say that with COVID-19 troubling a great many souls in some fairly big ways, we need someone as kind, insightful, calm and sweet as Kermit (voiced since 2017 by Matt Vogel) now Continue Reading