SNAPSHOT Courtesy of BBC Two’s Black Hollywood, this short clip pairs John Boyega’s incredibly charming story about being cast in The Force Awakens with equally charming animation, making the story pop. See how Boyega became Finn, a fun little story that involves some white lies, an expensive cab ride, Continue Reading
Book review: The Lost Book of the Holy Grail by Charlie Lovett
We all love a good treasure hunt. Even more so when it involves lost and fabled treasures from the distant past which thanks to ever more expansively-hyperbolic storytelling have taken on an aura so captivating that the very idea of them gets our collective pulse racing with only the Continue Reading
Our Last Summer: The emotionally-evocative geography of ABBA’s songs
ABBA is the great musical love of my life. Every single last one of their songs summon up some kind of powerful memory, including as a man in his ’50s a joyous/melancholic recalling of past memories, a theme that is common to many of the group’s epically-good songs. One Continue Reading