Life does not usually afford us too many do-overs. Captive to a headlong rush down the chronological racetrack, you’re lucky if you have the chance to get it right the first time, let alone again and again until, maybe, possibly, you get it right. Netflix’s latest smash hit, Russian Doll, Continue Reading
Pixar SparkShorts: Kitbull and the joy of unexpected friends
SNAPSHOT Kitbull, directed by Rosana Sullivan and produced by Kathryn Hendrickson, reveals an unlikely connection that sparks between two creatures: a fiercely independent stray kitten and a pit bull. Together, they experience friendship for the first time. (synopsis (c) Disney/Pixar) Kitbull is, you might be surprised to learn, the culmination Continue Reading
Comics review: Nuclear Winter
Ordinarily, an apocalyptic event like a nuclear winter wouldn’t form a lasting premise for a quirky, character-based comic that surges with wit, whimsy and more than a little action (much of it on ski-doos as it happens). But in Nuclear Winter (Hiver nucléaire) by Montreal-based artist Caroline Breault, known by Continue Reading
A killer second act: Barry debuts second season trailer
Barry was, hands down, one of the best TV shows of the last year. Violent and yet tender, expansive and yet intimate, it was a show that beautifully balanced humour and horror, severe existential angst and nascent hope and possibility, an insightful study of humanity that was as moving as Continue Reading