When you have something good going on, change can be a very hard thing to deal with. That applies even when the change that comes along is eventually good, the product of life bestowing all kinds of happy eventualities on people who face great adversity and come out the other Continue Reading
Turn the colour and fun up! Trailers for Barbie and The Muppets Mayhem brighten up life
Does life feel a little drab? The edges are a little blurred and indistinct, the in-fill lacking in vivacity and zest? Well, fear dear friends also caught in a beige tide, for Barbie and The Muppets Mayhem have arrived to make your world pop with a technicolour and some whimsical Continue Reading
The end is closer than we think: Get ready for the Secret Invasion
SNAPSHOTSecret Invasion is a newly announced series heading to Disney+ that stars Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Ben Mendelsohn as the Skrull Talos—characters who first met in Captain Marvel. The crossover event series showcases a faction of shape-shifting Skrulls who have been infiltrating Earth for years. Secret Invasion Continue Reading
Witness the world-changing events of Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City (poster and trailer)
SNAPSHOTWes Anderson’s latest film Asteroid City takes place in a fictional American desert town circa 1955. The itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition) is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events. Asteroid City is directed by acclaimed Continue Reading
Book review: Taken by Dinuka McKenzie
There can surely no greater terror for a parent than coming out one day to find that someone has stolen your child right from under your nose in your very own home. This is exactly the kind of diabolically awful scenario which confronts one young parent in Dinuka McKenzie’s gripping Continue Reading
Movie review: Broker
Finding a place to belong, and by extension, people to belong to, is central to what makes us human. We are a tribal people, and without the emotional touchstone of those whom we consider family, we can find ourselves strangely unmoored, our experience of human interaction truncated by being rendered Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: A Tourist’s Guide to Love, Trolls Band Together and Master Gardener
If ever you needed proof that I have eclectic taste in movies, may I present this post as Exhibit A right through to Z. In just three movies, you have a rom-com – likely garden variety but warmly sweet and uplifting, anyway – a kids animated feature (hello Christmas outing Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2023: Week 2 – Israel, Latvia, Malta, Moldova and Netherlands (Semi-final 1, part 2)
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Book review: The Minuscule Mansion of Myra Malone by Audrey Burges
Life may not seem all that magical much of the time, largely because for all the beauty and romance it is capable of, there’s a great deal of pain and loss too. So overwhelming can that grief become that finding something wondrous in its midst can feel like an impossible Continue Reading