Ever wonder as an older adult, and yes that is where I find myself these days, wondering if it is ever possible to recapture the thrill and excitement of youth? Well, it is possible I have recently discovered, very recently in fact with news that ABBA have recorded and plan Continue Reading
Movie review: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The past is something you never really escape. It embeds itself in you, shapes you, moulds you and lodges itself irretrievably and irrevocably in your memories, with forgetting, true forgetting, never really on the cards. That’s not always a bad thing since our past are usually a mix of Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The whimsical vivacity of Deux Escargots S’ent Vont (Two Snails Set Off)
Oh, this film is a whimsical joy! Based on a classic children’s poem by Jacques Prévert entitled “Chanson des escargots qui vont à l’enterrement (Song of the snails who are on their way to a funeral)”, this short film, Deux Escargots S’ent Vont (Two Snails Set Off), by Romain Segaud Continue Reading