The new Disney and Pixar animated comedy Hoppers is part of the 2026 New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF). The film confronts, with amusing gimmicks, the most discussed issues of our time: climate change, technology and the way the younger and older generations address this crisis, as Mother Nature responds in multitudinous ways. Mabel…
The 2026 edition of the New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF) is championing young women in STEM with a film like Mary Anning. The animation directed and co-written by Marcel Barelli retraces the moment in which the illustrious British paleontologist was a 12-year-old girl in Dorset who made a pioneering discovery in the field…
The New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF) — the Oscar-qualifying kermesse that takes place over three weekends in March in New York City — is back with an engaging line-up that will entertain its 3 to 18 year-old spectators. When it comes to Academy Awards, a film in this 2026 programme is the outcome…
Dandelions are flowers that encapsulate all the hope there is in Mother Nature. You see them bloom as beautiful yellow flowers, and once the petals wither away, the seed heads transform into that white fluffy ball, that we like to blow off whilst making a wish. And as those parachute-like pappus fly away, the dandelion…
Emily Brontë, along with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, was one of the most significant literary figures of the nineteenth century. Her innovative novel Wuthering Heights had a wide range of adaptations for the screen, since the early days of cinema. The first adaptation of the 1847 publication goes back to 1920 and was directed…
When the Scottish novelist Robert Louis Stevenson spent a summer honeymoon in the Napa Valley — that is renowned for its winemaking — he expressed that just like a good poem that reveals nuances each time you read it, once you open a good bottle of wine the longer it decants the more its flavor…
The visionary Sam Raimi, acclaimed for his Spider-Man trilogy and many films that possess a dynamic visual style, returns to the screen with the undauntable survival-thriller Send Help. The story shows how Linda Liddle (Rachel McAdams) — the star employee from a company’s Planning & Strategy Department— and Bradley Preston (Dylan O’Brien) — the newly…
Chloé Zhao brings to the silver screen Maggie O’Farrell’s novel, that retraces the fate of one of William Shakespeare’s children, that eventually inspired him to write his play Hamlet. In fact, the written prologue states that in Stratford, ‘Hamnet’ and ‘Hamlet’ were considered the same name. Hamnet chronicles the relationship between the Bard (Paul Mescal)…
Simon & Garfunkel sung “Hello, darkness, my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again, Because a vision softly creeping, Left its seeds while I was sleeping, And the vision that was planted in my brain, Still remains, Within the sound of silence.” This was the first verse of their famous song The Sound…
There are many films that portray how interacting with animals is a beneficial experience for suffering humans. Many motion pictures have shown this with canines, but there are also those that have portrayed the rapport with marine creatures like the Best Documentary Feature Oscar My Octopus Teacher; with equines such as Steven Spielberg’s War Horse;…
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