Two years everyone! Almost two long years! That’s how long it’s been – well, technically one year and seven months but you can’t shout that without sounding ridiculously and embarrassingly over-precise – since we saw new episodes and could grab our Szechuan Sauce and sit back and enjoy the inspired, Continue Reading
Book review: Places in the Darkness by Christopher Brookmyre
Idealism is a powerful thing. Though grim, inevitable reality might suggest that ideals will often die a quick and fiery death of the funeral pyre of exigency or the pragmatic demands of realpolitik, we cling to them anyway, convinced that this time, this time, things will be different. This is Continue Reading
What’s to eat? Lucas the Spider and his friend the fly find out in “I’m Starving”
SNAPSHOT After becoming friends with the skittish fly who got caught in his lovingly homemade web, a very happy Lucas the Spider decided that he was hungry. Lucas turned to his new friend to find out what spiders eat. Without betraying personal safety, the fly took the sweet arachnid on Continue Reading
You’re braver than you think: Thoughts on … Bonding
You have to love a show that defies expectations. Bonding is just such a show, and trust me, it is a very easy show to love. Set in the world of BDSM sex, where people pay to have their fetishistic fantasies enacted, Bonding tells the story of long time friends, Continue Reading
The Farewell: When saying goodbye isn’t said at all
SNAPSHOTDirected and written by Lulu Wang, The Farewell follows the story of a Chinese-American woman named Billi, who goes to China after her grandmother, Nai Nai has been diagnosed with a terminal lung cancer. Billi’s family chose to kept the illness from Nai Nai due to a Chinese saying. In Continue Reading
Movie review: Pokémon Detective Pikachu
Is it possible to be adorable, wisecrackingly funny and heartfelt all at once? It is if you’re Pikachu and you are the titular star of your own film in which a great mystery is solved, tables are turned, and estranged connections re-established, all against some fairly-impressive worldbuilding. Pokémon Detective Pikachu, Continue Reading
#Eurovision cultural festival book review: One Night, Markovitch by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
One of the fascinating things about life is how it can be intensely-intimate and majestically-epic all at once, and how these two extremes, as far apart as the poles of the earth, can be so closely related that one cannot exist without the other, nor keep themselves from influencing what Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2019: Week 7 – France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Spain, UK
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Weekend movie poster art: The old and new characters from Toy Story 4
SNAPSHOT Woody (voice of Tom Hanks) has always been confident about his place in the world, and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that’s Andy or Bonnie. So when Bonnie’s beloved new craft-project-turned-toy, Forky (voice of Tony Hale), declares himself as “trash” and not a toy, Continue Reading
#Eurovision cultural festival: 5 Israeli music artists you should be listening to
Israel is a country with a rich and diverse cultural life, and while some of that will be on display during Eurovision, there’s much of it that might pass you unless you’re paying attention. To ensure that doesn’t happen, I have checked our five brilliantly-good Israeli artists who are creating Continue Reading