Transitions in life are never easy. Exciting, sure. Ripe with possibilities, certainly. But easy? Rarely, if ever. That becomes abundantly clear in the fourth season of Insecure where Issa Dee (Issa Rae) is trying to get her event organising career off the ground. The plan is to stage a big Continue Reading
Retro movie review: Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure
“Be excellent to each other.” “Party on dudes!” You may not think those two pieces of California stoner dude life advice would be sufficiently worldchanging in scope or intent to form the basis of a future Utopian society but then you are not Ted “Theodore” Logan (Keanu Reeves) or Bill Continue Reading
Book review: Again Again by e. lockhart
Linear time occupying a single, rather crowded universe can feel constricting at times. Everything we do, from catching a certain bus to repairing a relationship with an estranged friend or relative is a one-shot deal, condemned to a single moment in time, whether successful or not, from which there is Continue Reading
This is No Time to Die — but to watch a new Bond trailer? Absolutely, yes
SNAPSHOTConfirmed cast members returning for [No Time to Die] include Daniel Craig reprising his iconic role as James Bond for the last time, Ralph Fiennes as M, Lea Seydoux (Spectre), Naomie Harris as Moneypenny, Ben Whishaw as A, with Rory Kinnear as Tanner and Jeffrey Wright as Felix Leiter. New Continue Reading
Blink if you’re in trouble: The Duchess and love and motherhood
SNAPSHOTCreated by and starring Ryan in her scripted series debut, The Duchess follows the powerful and problematic choices of a fashionably disruptive single mom living in London. Her daughter, Olive, is her greatest love so she debates a second child with her greatest enemy — Olive’s Dad. Can two wrongs Continue Reading
Movie review: Tenet
On the surface, time might seem a beguilingly simple concept. There is a past, a present and future and all things being equal, and an enormously talented and imaginative British-American film director not being involved, time moves forward, quickly and smartly, one event leading reasonably sequentially to another. Nice and Continue Reading
Book review: The Miseducation of Evie Epworth by Matson Taylor
One of the most delightful parts of reading a book is discovering the characters who, if written well, play a key role in the story of which you are now, as a reader, a part. While you are not part of the story per se, it can often feel like Continue Reading
Movie review: Missing Link
Among the great animation houses of our time, there are four nearest and dearest to this reviewer’s heart – Pixar, Aardman Animations, Studio Ghibli and Laika, who have gifted us with the inestimable delights of Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, and most recently, Missing Link. Laika, Continue Reading
Book review: The Lightest Object in the Universe by Kimi Eisele
When it comes to the end of the world, a subject with which humanity, especially in pandemic-plagued 2020, seems to have an endless fascination, the assumption almost always is that nothing good can come of it. That’s fair enough – on the surface, and even deep down among the zombies, Continue Reading