With Luna, Chip & Inkie: Adventure Rangers Go, Knowledge Network finally step into the world of children’s animation. With fun and silliness, these three miniature heroes look to help solve problems of their friends in the forest! The following comes from their press release: Toronto and Vancouver, January 25, 2022 ??British Columbia?s trusted viewer-supported public…
Forget John Wick. Enter Saint Nick. Directed by Tommy Wirkola, Violent Night is the sort of holiday film that stands in the gap for fans who demand that Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Although the film is utterly nonsensical from start to finish, Violent Nightenters the festive season with such aplomb and bombast that one cannot help go for…
Salt in My Soul?introduces the world to Mallory Smith, a young woman with cystic fibrosis who remains resolute in her desire to live a full life. Diagnosed at the age of three, Mallory entered into her twenty-five-year battle with the disease with ferocity, managing to spark joy wherever she went. Based on Mallory?s posthumously-released bestselling…
In Jane Campion’s THE POWER OF THE DOG, Benedict Cumberbatch plays gruff cowboy, Phil Burbank. After his brother returns with a new wife and son, Phil does his best to put on a show of toxic masculinity and dominance, even as his conflicted soul suffers underneath. This week, Seeing & Believing‘s Kevin McLenithan and author…
Sometimes, the year?s best moments don?t always happen in the best films. Even though we associate the best moments with awards-calibre films, that?s simply not always the case. The most memorable moments that hit us differently can happen at any time, whether we?re sitting in a blockbuster film with a giant bucket of popcorn or…
Spin-offs are hard to make work. Still, that doesn?t stop us from trying. From That 80s Show to Joey and countless others, networks have tried for years to recapture the magic of their original series. In theory, it should work. Take an established setting and a character (or more) that?s already beloved, set them up with a few new…
?We want real stories. Romance sells.? ? Carmen, Cabin Connection Holding up the phrases ?real stories? and ?romance sells? together in the same sentence has a certain ring of irony to it. After all, even the best romance films lean into the most fantastic (and fictional) of coincidences and circumstances. Even so, Cabin Connection manages to find…
Every?Hotel?has to close its doors eventually? but hopefully, it gets to do so when the time feels right. In its fourth film, Hotel Transylvania: Transylvania comes at a time when Drac (Brian Hull, formerly Adam Sandler) is considering stepping away from the hotel game so he can spend more time with his new wife, Ericka (Kathryn Hahn)….
As we continue to move through the haze of the pandemic, sometimes it can feel like an endless haze has descended upon us all. Stuck in a seemingly endless mid-point, we continue to look beyond the COVID world, squinting to see some form of hope on the other side. It?s for that reason that actor…
This winter, you?re allowed to start believing in June Again. Set in Australia, June Again tells the story of June Wilton, an elderly woman who has been suffering from dementia for the past five years. Although she has been lost within herself over that time, an astonishing bout of lucidity suddenly awakens her as if no time…
