Today is a hard day for me. It’s my dad’s first birthday since he died on 10 June last year and as with all the first days since someone you loved dearly dies, it has left me feeling deeply reflective, a little sad and lost and not up to Continue Reading
Visit Green Gables: Come meet Anne all over again (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT Anne is a coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and many challenges, fights for love and acceptance and her place in the world. Set in Prince Edward Island in the late 1890s, the series centers on Anne Shirley (Amybeth McNulty), a young orphaned girl who, Continue Reading
Movie review: In Bed With Victoria
It pretty much goes without saying but life is a messy, often unpredictable business. While he Tony Robbins and Martha Stewarts of the world would have you believe that the chaotic business of living can be corralled and civilised, the average person knows that it’s not quite that simple. Continue Reading
Just four fingers? How most cartoon characters came to be missing an appendage
SNAPSHOT Cartoon characters have had four fingers for as long as we can remember. Sure, some cartoons have five fingers, but the majority of animation shows characters with only four fingers. How did this become the standard in the animation industry? Will cartoons always only have four fingers? We Continue Reading
Colony: “Lost Boy” / “Seppuku” (S2, E11 & E12)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND POLITICAL OPPORTUNISM, RELIGIOUS DISILLUSIONMENT … AND ONE REALL MESSY ROOF* It will surprise no one that humanity is a self-destructively contrary creature, just as apt to heroically sacrifice itself in the pursuit of a pure ideal, as it is to self-sabotage if it thinks that Continue Reading
A sequel to Love Actually? To me, that is perfect
Love Actually is one of those films that is either deeply loved, or ridiculed beyond measure (perhaps it’s the schmaltziness? Who knows). I fall most definitely into the former camp, having fallen in love with the film when it first came in 2003, having decided for reasons that still Continue Reading
Book review: Universal Harvester by John Darnielle
Life, pretty much any way you stretch it, is disconcerting. Few of us actually admit to such a thing since to do so would be to admit that the bricks-and-mortar sanity of the everyday, the bills, the commute and the meals that anchor us to comfortingly set routines, is Continue Reading
Come meet Dante! He’s a dog after a bone with a mind of its own #Coco
If the average dog could talk, and last we checked they can’t, at least not in a language we can understand (save for love, which they fluently and exuberantly), they would tell you that bones not supposed to be able to lead them on a merry dance, eluding them every Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2017: Week 2 – Czech Republic, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Iceland, Latvia
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Film and TV show icons get the stamp of approval
These stamps are gorgeous aren’t they? Not real unfortunately, and you won’t be licking them onto an envelope any time soon or at all, but they are, nevertheless, gorgeous. They are the work of Clark Orr, who has imagined in the most visually arresting of ways, what an impressive Continue Reading