SNAPSHOTAfter a heartbreaking loss, a grandfather struggling to reclaim his passion for painting finds the inspiration to paint again. (synopsis vis Netflix) Grief, more often that not, is accompanied by an almost palpable sense of limbo. While the world might keep racing on around you, and all the things you Continue Reading
#ChristmasInJuly Book review: The Cosy Christmas Chocolate Shop (Cosy Chocolate Shop #1) by Caroline Roberts
There appears to be a neverending streak of cosy Christmas noels out there. Many of them are delightfully written, giving us 300 or so pages in which to sink into a world, usually composed of a quirky but loving English village, a shop of some kind that usually serves comfort Continue Reading
It’s time to join the gang at Superstore for “Christmas Eve” #ChristmasInJuly
Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, right? Right? I mean, how can it not be with all the lights and the merriment and the joy and “winter barn displays” (aka nativity scenes) and such? And yet in “Christmas Eve”, the season 3 episode of Superstore which goes Continue Reading
Retro animated movie review: Monsters Inc. #Happy20thAnniversary
Watching Monsters, Inc. after a lamentable gap of twenty years is akin to catching up with a close friend you once adored and loved, and deep down still do, but with whom you’ve had little to no contact since you saw them last. As you begin to get re-acquainted, it Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Lorelei, Little Q, The Evening Hour, Encanto, The Addams Family 2
Still in lockdown and still in need of cinematic diversion. It seems to be that at those times when you can’t go out and see the world – I am trapped inside an apartment in a locked down city in a state shut off all the others in a country Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #51: bülow, Em Beihold, Tones and I, John Errol, Baby Queen (feat. MAY-A)
As the city I live in hurtle into a third straight week of lockdown with more to come, it’s heartening that there is so much great music to keep spirits higher than they might otherwise be. Even better, this music comes with thoughtful, observant and playful lyrics that poetically reflect Continue Reading
Book review: The Long, Long Afternoon by Inga Vesper
It will be a news flash to precisely no one that people are very good at trying to create the reality they desire. It usually bears no resemblance to life as it actually is, and can be irritating at best and murderously destructive at worst, and in Inga Vesper’s The Continue Reading
Psst! We’re fairly sure that Ron’s Gone Wrong … but he might be your “Best Friend Out of the Box”!
SNAPSHOTRon’s Gone Wrong will feature a touching and hilarious look at the budding friendship between a middle-school boy and his faulty robot. It tells the story of Barney, a socially awkward middle-schooler and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally-connected device, which is supposed to be his “Best Friend Out of Continue Reading
Thoughts on The Kominsky Method: The final season
Chuck Lorre, sitcom creator extraordinaire is not normally known for his subtlety. His sitcoms are designed to be brash, obvious and funny and if ratings success is any guide – he is the creative force behind Dharma & Greg, Mom, and The Big Bang Theory, among many others – he Continue Reading
Movie review: The Tomorrow War
There are times when you crave, when you need, a big heapin’ helpin’ of big dumb blockbuster fun. Switch off the brain, park your critical faculties in neutral and surrender yourself to a glorious onslaught of sight, sound and action that’s bonkers bananas and yet somehow weirdly satisfying. Technically that Continue Reading