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…
A Scream movie without Sidney Prescott made about as much sense as Smokey and the Bandit Part 3, without the Bandit. In the latest installment, even a psychopathic killer admits you cannot have a Ghostface attack without Prescott. The married survivor of multiple slashings now goes by Sidney Prescott Evans, but whether she likes it…
©Courtesy of Netflix Miyamoto Musashi was the greatest samurai of the Edo Era, who, according to legend, cut through the Shogunate’s enemies like butter during the Battle of Sekigahara. Much to his surprise, a cutting-edge cloning project reincarnates him (with a little magical help from a “medium”) to fight the worst scourge of the 21st…
Courtesy of Apple TV+ The first season of the show, born from the collaboration between Apple TV+ and Legendary Television, had opted for the interesting choice of bringing the “Titans” of the Godzilla/King Kong universe into the streaming format. An interesting, perhaps even innovative idea, which played rather well with the expectations of serial viewers,…
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…
©Courtesy of Amazon MGM Studios Matthew Schuchman : In the early 90s, while at the video store with his friends who wanted to rent Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Matthew asked the clerk if they had any copies of Naked Lunch available. A film buff from an early age, he would turn his fascination into his…
©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival The most endearing family dramas are often those that avert expectations. The unique stories explore themes of identity, belonging and the emotional bonds between parent and child as a tender character study. The new movie, Hot Water, is one such feature, as it grapples with the definition of home during…
©Courtesy of Netflix Her name means love in Japanese, but the pronunciation sounds very similar to “I,” as in the English singular first-person pronoun. Clearly, the title of her new life-story was intended to carry that double meaning. In 2009, Ai Haruna became the first Japanese contender to win the Miss International Queen transgender pageant…
©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival The most confident, compelling films trust acting and craft ability over spectacle. Like its American and Korean counterparts, the new romantic drama, Bedford Park built its foundation on the accumulation of small, human moments. It further succeeds as a result of varying element working in careful balance with each other….
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