A lot can happen in just one day! Just ask Jimmy MacDonald (Dick Powell), the protagonist of the 1940 Preston Sturges film, Christmas in July, who’s a grunt office worker from a working class neighbourhood of New York City who heads off to his menial day job in an office Continue Reading
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Movie review: The Fantastic Four: First Steps
(courtesy IMP Awards) Most superhero movies, if you look beyond the bangs and the booms and the epic struggles for curdely painted yet titanic struggles between god and evil, are about connection. Friendship, camaraderies, even family figure strongly, even with figures like Batman or Iron Man who might otehrwise be Continue Reading
Movie review: A Nice Indian Boy
(courtesy IMP Awards) If you’ve been paying attention, you will have noticed a decidedly welcome tilt towards queer themes in romantic comedies that aren’t simply of the tokenistically inclusive kind. While good old-fashioned heteronormative rom-coms are a joy and delight and good for this gay reviewer’s heart, there’s something soul Continue Reading
It’s just like Avatar! Or is it? Check out the bouncily fun teaser trailer for Pixar’s Hoppers
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTWhat if you could talk to animals and understand what they’re saying? In Disney / Pixar’s all-new feature film Hoppers, scientists have discovered how to “hop” human consciousness into lifelike robotic animals, allowing people to communicate with animals as animals! The adventure introduces Mabel, an animal lover Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Everything’s Going to Be Great, The Travellers + Magnetosphere
(via Shutterstock) My happy place, well one of them anyway, is a cinema where for anyone between 1.5 hours and god knows how long – overlong blockbusters I am looking at you – I can forget the world outside and lose myself in some cinematic magic. It’s a bliss and Continue Reading
Movie review: Jurassic World: Rebirth
(courtesy IMP Awards) It will come as exactly no surprise to anyone that life is hard. Very hard, in fact. Oh, we dress it up in all sorts of diversionary bells and whistles, and even manage to have some fun along the way but enjoyable though it is to be Continue Reading
Movie review: The Quiet Maid (Calladita)
(courtesy IMDb) This may be news to the producers of many a Hollywood blockbuster – this reviewer loves many of them but subtle they are not – but there is real power in telling an emotionally impactful story quietly. While the temptation, especially in our cliffhanger-addicted, streaming algorithm modern digital Continue Reading
He’s gone too far! Trailer releases for a feisty and fun Cat in the Hat movie
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“Today is going to be THE. BEST. DAY. EVER!” Meet the Cat in the Hat you don’t know! In the whimsical tradition of Dr. Seuss, The Cat in the Hat comes to the big screen in his animated theatrical feature film debut, an all-new, epic adventure with Continue Reading
One last roll of the planetary dice … Project Hail Mary releases its first gripping trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAstronaut Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) awakens with no memory of himself or his mission. He deduces he is the sole survivor of a crew sent to the Tau Ceti solar system in search of a solution to a catastrophic event on Earth. In his search for answers, Grace must Continue Reading
Movie review: Flow
(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s a rare thing indeed to emerge from watching a movie of any kind and feel both soothed and euphoric. Surely the two states are antithetical, with the more active one bludgeoning the other into emotional oblivion with boundlessly energetic vivacity? Or the former chilling you the Continue Reading