If there is one consistent theme in much of American popular culture, it’s the Manifest Destiny-inspired notion that anything is possible in the land of the free and the home of the brave. This idea, while borne of some truth, is in many ways more ideal than reality, a Continue Reading
Movies
On 10th day of Christmas … I read A Die Hard Christmas picture book
Way back in 1988 when I first saw Die Hard, which is as much a love letter (albeit a violent one) as an action thriller – you may recall that John McClane (Bruce Willis) is in L.A. from New York where’s he’s a cop to see his estranged wife Continue Reading
Feeling festively frazzled? Watch this soothing short film of Mojave Desert ghost towns at night
SNAPSHOT SKYGLOWPROJECT.COM presents Mojave Forsaken — a timelapse journey through ghost towns of the Mojave Desert and the magnificent night skies there. Flanking the infamous Death Valley to the north, west and east, once-booming mining towns of Bodie, Cerro Gordo and Rhyolite now sit in decay at mercy of Continue Reading
Movie review: Star Wars – The Last Jedi
There comes a time in every franchise, even one as venerable and deeply-loved at George Lucas’s Star Wars when the old must give way to the new and the characters we know and love hand over, in this case at least, their light sabres and midi-chlorians and fly off Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The serenity of the Fox and the Whale
Even a Christmas-aholic such as myself has to admit that there are times when the wonderful time of the year also feels like the most unendingly stressful. With pressure, internal and external to get everything in the bag, work and otherwise by 25 December – it’s an arbitrary line Continue Reading
On 7th day of Christmas … I reviewed The Man Who Invented Christmas
While it’s safe to say that the justly-celebrated British novelist Charles Dickens (Dan Stevens) did not, in fact, invent Christmas – that honour belongs, I think we can safely say to one Jesus Christ – he was very much its saviour when it came to rescue the holiday from Continue Reading
Kevin is Home Alone again – this time in an 8-bit video game!
No one really wants to spend Christmas alone – then again for some people with off-the-charts dysfunctional families, it’s an appealing prospect – but if you have to, and robbers or other n’er-do-wells come a-calling with less than festive intentions, then you should tackle your solo decking of halls Continue Reading
Movie review: Just to be Sure (Ôtez-moi d’un Doute)
It goes without saying, but this being a review it shall be said anyway, that identity is core to who we are as people. Take it away, or even one or some of its constituent building blocks that have been assembled over a lifetime and you can be handed, Continue Reading
Weekend movie poster art: Star Wars The Last Jedi
SNAPSHOT Rey took her first steps into a larger world in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and will continue her epic journey with Finn, Poe, and Luke Skywalker in the next chapter of the continuing Star Wars saga. The Last Jedi is written and directed by Rian Johnson and Continue Reading
On 2nd day of Christmas … I reviewed A Bad Mom’s Christmas
Hollywood, generally speaking, does not have an expansive palette when it comes to films with a festive flavour. Movies are either unbearably sentimental, laden with so much holiday sugar that sugar canes look on in envy, or so brusquely raunchy that even the merest whiff of chestnuts roasting and Continue Reading