SNAPSHOT Ginger is a little girl living in the wake of a zombie apocalypse. While most of the planet has perished because they stuck to the cities, Ginger lives way out in the country and thus far hasn’t seen a single zombie. She also hasn’t seen a living person Continue Reading
Book review: The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin
In the West, where sensitivity to free flowing spirituality often finds itself subsumed to logic and consumerism more often than not, the idea of reincarnation is often treated with outright scepticism and ridicule, or at the very least, benign neglect. For some reason, the idea that we are not wholly Continue Reading
Fantastic worlds beneath: Guillermo del Toro’s Trollhunters
SNAPSHOT Trollhunters follows 15-year-old Jim (Anton Yelchin) and his two best friends, Toby (Charlie Saxton) and the benevolent troll Blinky (Kelsey Grammer), who make the startling discovery that beneath their hometown lies a hidden battle between good trolls and bad. Ron Perlman also lends his voice as Bular, a Continue Reading
Road to Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life #7: “Those Are Strings, Pinocchio” (S3, E22)
Once of the great enduring strengths of the Gilmore Girls is the way in which it beautifully balanced the quirky joys of small town life, and specifically the BFF bubble within that inhabited by Lorelai and Rory (Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel respectively) with the reality that life is not always Continue Reading
Daria the sequel? College Humour hilariously speculates on what form this might take
If you were never one of the cool kids in the hell they call school – as you might be able to tell from oh-so-subtle swipe, I was never a member of the movers-and-shakers, an outcast who was bulled throughout – then it’s highly likely you’ll have an affinity Continue Reading
Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Fox proves there are all kinds of families
Being a parent is not for the fainthearted. Even so more so when you not planning to be a parent, and your meal, in this case eggs stolen by a fox looking for a deliciously yolky meal, hatches unexpectedly and declare you momma, poppa and every other surrogate parental Continue Reading
Now this is music #79: Fleurie, SIGNAL, Sannie, Jessica Says, Bishat
To its detractors pop music is vacuous, musical slop for the uncritical masses. But for those of us who know it well and see it at its best, it’s vibrant, inquiring, combining thoughtfulness and an irresistible way of getting its message across. That’s very much the case with these Continue Reading
Moonlight and the struggle to be true to yourself
SNAPSHOT Moonlight is the tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality. Anchored by astonishing performances and the singular vision Continue Reading
Comics review: Future Quest (issues 1-4)
As previously reviewed modern comic book iterations of Scooby Doo, The Flintstones and Wacky Races have illustrated, reviving an old pop culture property, in the case of Future Quest, quite a number of them, comes with a unique set of challenges. Not insurmoutable challenges of course but fairly sizable Continue Reading
Aardman goes way, way back for their new prehistoric feature Early Man
SNAPSHOT Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of how plucky caveman Dug [Eddie Redmayne], along with sidekick Hognob, unites his tribe against the mighty Bronze Age in a battle to beat them at their own Continue Reading