Any way you look at it, Game of Thrones is a clever, complex, multilayered show. Part of its appeal is that it invest meaning in every scene, every characters words and actions, with nothing left to chance. As the knowledgeable people at ScreenPrism beautifully explain, this extends to its use Continue Reading
Do the Dance of Joy! Perfect Stranger Things is here!
A sitcom staple in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Perfect Strangers was a delightful, if unchallenging, tale of two distant cousins, one American-born, another an immigrant, who have to overcome all kinds of cultural and other hurdles to arrive at something approaching domestic bliss. The humour was more Continue Reading
Comics review: Bodie Troll
Bodie Troll won’t like me telling you this so shhhhh, but good lord, he’s freaking adorable. Yes, yes I know, trolls aren’t supposed to be adorable or sweet or lovely or Anne of Green Gables meets Pollyanna wonderful or in fact anything good, wholesome and kind. They are, as Continue Reading
The Florida Project: Summer is long but is the living easy?
SNAPSHOT Set on a stretch of highway just outside the imagined utopia of Disney World, The Florida Project follows six-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) and her rebellious mother Halley (Bria Vinaite) over the course of a single summer. The two live week to week at “The Magic Castle,” a budget Continue Reading
Retro movie review: Forces of Nature
From pretty much every conceivable angle, getting married is a pretty wonderful thing. There’s all that true love forever after (well until the divorce papers are served; whoops, kinds broke the romantic spell there), committing yourself to that special someone, friends and family looking on, dressing up, dressing down Continue Reading
Is there nothing that Rogue One’s Chirrut Imwe can’t do? NO #StarWars
If you saw Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and seriously if you haven’t why not, you will remember it is one of the darkest, most bloody films in the franchise’s considerable canon. Telling the story of the intrepid band of brave rebels who successfully managed to get the Continue Reading
Musicals review: Muriel’s Wedding
Have you ever wished ABBA could be your life guides, there in the tough times with words of advice, leaping out of your bedroom wardrobe to give you company when you’re all alone, and, of course, singing you into a better frame of mind with songs like “Dancing Queen”, Continue Reading
Book review: The Lustre of Lost Things by Sophie Chen Keller
Walter Lavender Jr is a remarkable young man. Gifted with a preternatural ability to locate missing objects in a dazzlingly wide variety of circumstances the length and breadth of New York City, he lives with his mother Lucy at a bakery where the pastries and desserts come alive with Continue Reading
Movie review: Goodbye Christopher Robin
You would be hard-pressed to find anyone who didn’t spend their childhood, in some form or another, wandering through the Hundred Acre Wood with Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Eeyore, Piglet and the rest of A. A. Milne’s wonderful coterie of honey-loving friends. There was something, and still Continue Reading
Happy Birthday Bert! (5 months late) #SesameStreet
I love birthdays. My birthday. Other peoples’ birthdays. And pop culture characters birthdays. If it involves cake, friends and a party, real or imagined I am there with figurative bells on (or depending on the party, actual bells). I also don’t restrict these celebrations to the actual day of Continue Reading