It’s hard to say when it happened but somewhere along the way, people have lost their ability to empathise. Rather than putting themselves in someone else’s shoes and trying to understand what drove or drives them to act in a certain way, people too often condemn and decry, letting fear Continue Reading
Retro movie review: Toy Story
No one likes to feel there’s easily replaceable, either in usefulness or lovability. Yet that’s precisely what happens to Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) in Pixar’s classic Toy Story, released in 1995 and almost immediately hailed as an animation classic, not simply because it contains groundbreaking 3D animation but because Continue Reading
Movie review: The Dead Don’t Die
What would happen if you invited a slew of A-list actors to the zombie apocalypse and everyone just kind of lost interest? Why, then, you’d have Jim Jarmusch’s gloriously-uneven The Dead Don’t Die which over the course of ever-more-inert one hour and forty-three minutes rather ironically loses its will to Continue Reading
They’re back Doc! Looney Tunes revived with 200 new cartoons on the way
SNAPSHOTWarner Bros. Animation is announcing its most ambitious Looney Tunes content initiative to date with Looney Tunes Cartoons, a series of new short-form cartoons starring the iconic and beloved Looney Tunes characters. With multiple artists employing a visual style that will resonate with fans, each “season” will produce 1,000 minutes Continue Reading
Comics review: Supers – A Little Star Past Cassiopeia by Frédéric Maupomé & Dawid
One of the greatest gifts that the creator of any comic book can give a reader is to present their creation as a fully-formed entity with a minimum of exposition. There’s nothing wrong with exposition per se, of course; the key thing is that it must be done well or Continue Reading
Book review: The Nancys by R.W.R. McDonald
By any idealistic measure, childhood is supposed to be an untouched idyll, a place of innocence and untrammelled happiness where the sun shines, the birds sing and anything wonderful is possible. 11-year-old Tippy Chan, however, inhabits a wholly different world in The Nancys, one where the bounteous escapism of youth Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #9: FKA Twigs, Anna of the North, The Marías, Barrie, Winona Oak
Sit down! Set a spell. Think quiet thoughts. Don’t think at all. We live in a busy, frantic, manic, noisy world and taking some time out to just ruminate, smell the roses and let your mind wander is one of the greatest gifts we can gift ourselves. These five amazingly Continue Reading
Frozen 2: Giants, equine water spirits and grave threats to the kingdom
SNAPSHOTWhy was Elsa born with magical powers? The answer is calling her and threatening her kingdom. Together with Anna, Kristoff, Olaf and Sven, she’ll set out on a dangerous but remarkable journey. In Frozen, Elsa feared her powers were too much for the world. In Frozen 2, she must hope Continue Reading
Movie review: Bellbird
There’s an idea prevalent in society that grief unexpressed isn’t grief at all. In other words, if you’re not wailing and crying and gnashing your teeth like an Old Testament prophet clad in sackcloth and ashes, then are you really grieving? It’s an idea that is gently and thoughtfully challenged Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “The Hurt That Will Happen” (S5, E2 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … RADIOACTIVE ZOMBIES, FRIENDLY CATS AND THE SOUND OF GOOD INTENTIONS COMING UP HARD AGAINST HARD REALITY … Continuing the season 5 theme of doing good even when everyone else is doing bad, or at best, being protectively ambivalent, “The Hurt That Will Happen” celebrated the idea that, Continue Reading