SNAPSHOT After living in Denver for nearly a year, Patrick returns to San Francisco for the first time to celebrate the wedding of old friends. In the process, he must face the unresolved relationships he left behind and make difficult choices about what’s truly important to him. Starring Jonathan Continue Reading
Movie review: Mustang
Life can change in the blink of an eye. That this all-too-knowing sage observation of the business of living is made at the start of Mustang, written (with Alice Winocour) and directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven isn’t necessarily a surprise; what does surprise is how all the wistfulness and longing implicit in Continue Reading
Independence Day for kids: Who’s that at the door? It’s aliens
With Independence Day: Resurgence currently in theatres – it is by the way not the extraterrestrial mess some critics would have you believe – it’s a timely thing indeed that Jeff Goldblum and Mashable have joined forces for the ultimate in bedtime reading sessions for kids. Yes sirree, big Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Let’s Not Panic at the end of the world
So it’s the end of the world – like the actual asteroid about to crush New York City end of the world (no zombies or viral plague thank goodness) – and life hangs in the balance, with only your teddy bear and some peanut brittle to provide any form Continue Reading
Book review: The Mirror World of Melody Black by Gavin Extence
If you’ve ever had the feeling that your life isn’t your own, that the life you’re living is just a little bit off-kilter, than you’ll find a lot to identify with in Gavin Extence’s second novel, The Mirror World of Melody Black. Creatively-titled since the titular character isn’t the Continue Reading
Brienne and Tormund in love: GoT’s cute new couple imagined as a 90s rom-com duo
Even in Game of Thrones, a show not exactly noted for its love stories or the longevity of those that somehow manage to fall in love in between scheming and plotting, death and explosive moments, it is possible for Cupid to get a look in. He may not get Continue Reading