Being loved unconditionally and truly belonging are two of the greatest gifts anyone can ever receive. They bolster the heart, restore the soul and they are utterly alien to Oxnard Matheson, protagonist of TJ Klune’s latest masterpiece, Wolfsong. Not because he hasn’t been loved at all – he has always Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Unexpected, We Have a Ghost and The Strays
I love going out to the movies. Yes, sometimes thoughtless idiots talk through the film and there’s always popcorn on the floor and there’s the effort of getting out and about BUT it’s lovely just being with other people and experiencing a film together that is so magically intoxicating. But Continue Reading
Book review: Sincerely, Me by Julietta Henderson
There’s something entirely and innately satisfying about reading about someone who’s life has not even gone remotely where they want it to and who manages through sheer force of will or happy circumstance to turn things around. Maybe it’s because that so rarely happens in real life, at least to Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: The Stuff of Legend: Book 1 – The Dark by Mike Raicht & Brian Smith (illustrations by Charles Paul Wilson III)
We have grown accustomed through Pixar’s Toy Story franchise to the appealing idea that childhood is largely and wondrously trouble-free. That’s not to say that Andy and later Bonnie don’t go through some emotionally troubling experiences; they definitely do and it informs and propels the narratives in all four of Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #81: YARLIE, Ava Max, Sgt Slick, Laura Mvula and Montaigne + new ABBA lyric videos
Love is supposed to be always wonderful. That’s the PR anyway, and yes, it can be absolutely glorious when everything goes well as some of this post’s artists attest, but sometimes it’s a car crash in the midst of a natural disaster cratering towards an apocalypse, and we have no Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune
SNAPSHOTIn a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots—fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family, hidden and safe. The day Continue Reading
Movie review: The Fabelmans
We are accustomed in this age of constant fame and unceasing veneration of achievement to assume that the great and the iconic among us have always been that way. And while, yes, true greatness or talent is often embryonic in a person, the idea that their rise to their current Continue Reading
Book review: When Franny Stands Up by Eden Robins
Discovering who you actually are, assuming you are bothering to look in the first place (not everyone is), is one of life’s great gifts. It’s not always the easiest of things to uncover sometimes, and can involves a huge amount of blood, sweat and tears and challenges to who you Continue Reading
Times change. Teenagers don’t. Thoughts on That ’90s Show S1
Can you ever really go back? Or in the case of sequels to much-loved shows go forward whilst also going back? It’s a huge question and one increasingly being asked as streaming platform scour the televisual and cinematic past for properties that might have a shot at another life in Continue Reading
Mini mass of movie trailers: iMordecai, Rye Lane + Your Place or Mine
Love is a wonderful thing. Whether it finds it forms in a romantic comedy, or a touchingly comedic story, it’s good for the soul to sit through a film where the world actually feels like it could be good, funny and lovely. There’s certainly been enough of the dark stuff Continue Reading