If only real life could be as good as the ones we imagine for ourselves. Twelve-year-old Ricky Bird, the titular protagonist of The Improbable Life of Ricky Bird, knows how good these made-up wafts of storybook confection can be; while her actual life falls apart around her as her parents Continue Reading
Movie review: Belfast
All of us, to one fundamental degree or another, have a powerful need to belong. It is often what defines and shapes, and gives us a soul-nourishing sense of time and place, and when it is broken or taken away, we lose an immeasurable part of ourselves. This sense of Continue Reading