I am not a car person. Not even a little bit. But the only sphere in which I will make an exception for vehicles, and really just about anything (bar pretty anything the extreme right advocates), is pop culture where transportation of all kinds has long been associated with Continue Reading
Movies
Movie review: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
If there is one thing you know to the very marrow of your movie-loving bone walking into a Luc Besson film, it’s that it will be gorgeously, extravagantly, luxuriously and immersively imaginative. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets lives up to this justifiable expectation, delivering up a Continue Reading
How *jolly*! The Nightmare Before Christmas gets a comic-based sequel and emoji retelling
SNAPSHOT “From the creative team of DJ Milky and Studio DICE, the book will be released as full-color floppies, then collected into graphic novels, and then finally collected in manga-sized editions.” (synopsis via Bleeding Cool) Can you ever really get enough of Tim Burton’s inspired piece of festive storytelling The Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The endangered voice of the Sun Bear
SNAPSHOT Sun Bear imaginatively embodies the life of a sun bear and discusses the issues of poaching and habitat loss due to palm oil in Borneo from the bear’s perspective. It’s all too easy these days to look at the state of the world and see only a giant Continue Reading
Monday is missing in the first Steven Sisters movie trailer
SNAPSHOT In a not so distant future, where overpopulation and famine have forced governments to undertake a drastic “One Child Policy,” seven identical sisters live a hide-and-seek existence pursued by the Child Allocation Bureau. The Bureau, directed by the fierce Nicolette Cayman (Glenn Close), enforces a strict family-planning agenda Continue Reading
Inside Big Bird: Witness how one of Sesame Street’s most-loved residents comes alive
Big Bird is one of Sesame Street‘s most beloved characters, the perfect embodiment of sweet childlike innocence, playfulness and an eagerness to learn. For much of his time on Sesame Street, he was given life by Caroll Spinney, a charming man who devoted much of his life to his Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The thoughtful fun of Joey Spiotto’s Firefly Back From the Black
I love the work of Joey Spiotto. He has a keen eye and obvious love for pop culture and invests all this art with a playful sensibility that still manages to convey everything you love about the characters and shows or movies he draws inspiration from. Take his Little Continue Reading
Movie review: War for the Planet of the Apes
Despite its many great achievements, humanity often fails spectacularly at one critically-important thing – being human. It is an existential Achilles heel, witnessed in our ongoing lack of willingness to show mercy instead of vengeance, pursue peace in place of conflict, practice love over hate, and it proves to Continue Reading
Is marriage dead? The fun and angst of I Do … Until I Don’t
SNAPSHOT In Vero Beach, Florida, a trio of couples at various points in their relationships become the subjects of a film about marriage being an antiquated idea that needs a reboot: Why not turn marriage into a seven-year deal with an option to renew? For Alice and Noah (Lake Continue Reading
Dead Friends: Even zombies need loyal companions
SNAPSHOT Decades after a mysterious incurable zombie virus spreads throughout the world mankind is in danger of going extinct. Among the infected there is an old zombie and a dog that remains loyal to his master and hopes he will become human again one day. (synopsis via Laughing Squid Continue Reading