SPOILERS AHEAD … AND GRIEF AND GRUBBY SELF-PRESERVATION (GUESS WHO … GO ON, YOU’LL NEVER GUESS … OK, YES YOU WILL … Grief is a perniciously unpredictable thing. Much as we might like to think we have a neatly-categorised, five stages delineated grip on it, the reality is that Continue Reading
That’s *NOT* all folks! New Looney Tunes shorts arriving in 2019
One of the great joys of my childhood, and yes my adulthood too, has been watching Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the gang go through their madcap, often surreal, wittily clever and riotously funny paces. The cartoon shorts in which they appear, known collectively as Looney Tunes, ran from Continue Reading
Movie review: A Season in France (Une saison en France) #SydFilmFest
One look at the poster for A Season in France (Une saison en France) might lead you to believe that this film, written and directed with great insight and empathy by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, is a feel-good triumph against considerable odds. It is anything but of course, with the understated nuanced narrative Continue Reading