SNAPSHOT“Wolfboy and the Everything Factory follows Wolfboy (voiced by Kassian Akhtar), an imaginative oddball who discovers a strange realm at the center of the earth where fantastical beings called ‘Sprytes’ create things for the natural world on the surface—clouds, trees, rabbits, dreams, hiccups, memories, time… everything! With his newfound Spryte Continue Reading
Book review: Shelf Life by Livia Franchini
You have likely read this type of novel a thousand times over. Couple breaks up over reasons devastatingly huge and languishingly trivial, one half of a once-tonight partnership finds themselves reeling and without initially wanting to, finds themselves being forced to reinvent themselves with heartwarmingly and predictably uplifting results. It’s Continue Reading
“Not without my team”: Finch celebrates being alive in an all-new trailer
SNAPSHOTIn the film, a man, a robot, and a dog form an unlikely family in a powerful and moving adventure of one man’s quest to ensure that his beloved canine companion will be cared for after he’s gone. Hanks stars as Finch, a robotics engineer and one of the few Continue Reading
Book review: My Name is Monster by Katie Hale
With the human experience awash in apocalyptical tales, including a pandemic one that sits rather uncomfortably at the heart of modern reality, you could be forgiven for thinking that one of the end of the world story looks much like the other. And while it’s true that all of them Continue Reading
Movie review: Tove #Queerscreen
When you love someone’s creation with the unvarnished innocence and enthusiasm of childhood, and yes, this can persist well into adulthood since it retains for perpetuity the shape and ardour with which it was formed, it’s hard to conceive of its creator as someone with raw, troubled humanity, in other Continue Reading
Further animated adventures far from the Bridge: Thoughts on Lower Decks (S2, E1-5)
Star Trek has a reputation for being very, VERY serious. It’s not undeserved, of course, since the franchise as a whole has its eyes firmly on the bettering of the human race in particular and the galaxy as a whole, an undertaking far into the future that is, by its Continue Reading
What might the near future be like? The City Inside has some ideas
SNAPSHOTJoey is a Reality Controller in near future Delhi. Her job is to supervise the multimedia multi-reality livestreams of Indi, one of South Asia’s fastest rising online celebrities—who also happens to be her college ex. Joey’s job gives her considerable culture-power, but she’s too caught up in day-to-day crisis-handling to Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Pixar’s newest SparkShorts’ Twenty Something
SNAPSHORTAdulting can be hard. Some days you’re nailing it, while other days, you’re just a stack of kids hiding in a trench coat hoping no one notices. Gia finds herself in this exact scenario the night of her 21st birthday. This is a story about the insecurities of adulting and Continue Reading
Book review: Thursdays at Orange Blossom House by Sophie Green
We like to think in this hyperconnected digital age of ours that we are closer than ever to those around us, and even those far, far away. And while there is some intimacy and value that comes from trading thoughts on everything from politics to cake recipes on social media Continue Reading
Weekday movie poster art: New character posters for Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch
SNAPSHOTA love letter to journalists set at an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city, centering on three storylines. It brings to life a collection of tales published in the eponymous The French Dispatch. Inspired by Anderson’s love of The New Yorker, and some characters and Continue Reading