SNAPSHOTA boy with muscular dystrophy and his dog go on an adventure of discovery in an old spitfire plane. (synopsis via Vimeo (c) Wonderlust) Imagination is a powerful thing. It lifts us well and truly out of the banal and the everyday, the hopeless and the can’t-be-done to a place Continue Reading
Book review: The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris
For all the beauty, love and grandeur of which humanity is capable, there is also a frightening capacity for evil on a horrifying scale. Nowhere has this dark part of our collective soul been more terribly expressly that in the Holocaust when the Nazis murdered six million Jews (along with Continue Reading
Benjamin: “It’s about my inability to love, but I’m fine now.”
SNAPSHOTIn Simon Amstell’s affecting, bittersweet comedy, a rising young filmmaker is thrown into emotional turmoil by a burgeoning romance and the upcoming premiere of his second feature. (synopsis via IMDb) If you are to believe countless representations of falling love, all it takes is openness, a romantically fairy, god or Continue Reading
Movie review: Happy Ending #SCA19
Life is, whether we like to admit it or not, a series of reckonings. Going to school for the first time. Leaving home and starting life as a newly-minted grown-up. Marrying. Having kids. Not having kids. Securing that dream job. And as explored in Hella Joof’s supremely self-assured film Happy Continue Reading
Come and take a look behind the curtain with Star Trek: Discovery and Star Wars
Not everyone likes to pull back the curtain hiding the gears and mechanisms that make a movie or TV show come alive. For some, wholly entering into that created world is sacrosanct; they want the experience of being transported far away from the everyday, to feel as if it is Continue Reading
Comics review: The Dream Merchant
We all know nightmares are frightening places to be. Which is waking from them, even if it is with a scream and a momentarily debilitating loss of certainty about where and who we are, is always a sweet and blessed, reality-embracing relief. But if your nightmares are the same each Continue Reading
Weekend movie poster art: Think your family is weird? Meet The Addams Family
SNAPSHOTGet ready to snap your fingers! The Addams Family is back on the big screen in the first animated comedy about the kookiest family on the block. Funny, outlandish, and completely iconic, the Addams Family redefines what it means to be a good neighbor. (synopsis via Coming Soon) I adore Continue Reading
Book review: Step by Step: The Life in my Journeys by Simon Reeve
One of life’s great joys is watching or listening to someone who is not only passionate about the thing or things they love, but who can talk about them in ways that inform, move and inspire you. That’s why watching any of British presenter Simon Reeve’s documentary series is such Continue Reading
A whole new undead world: New show joins The Walking Dead universe
SNAPSHOT“This new series will “focus on the first generation to come-of-age in the apocalypse as we know it. Some will become heroes. Some will become villains. In the end, all of them will be changed forever. Grown-up and cemented in their identities, both good and bad.” (synopsis via TVLine) What’s Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #12: Avicii, Agnes, Lil Nas X, bülow, Au/Ra + Eurovision 2020 update
If you’re paying attention, and not everyone does, life has some pretty big lessons to teach us. Whether it’s stepping away from the manic fray when you’re existentially on the edge or wanting to let loose but not sure now is the time to do it because of the people Continue Reading