(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s a distinctly odd thing when grief finally and fully gets its murderous hooks into you. All of your life up until that point, you are told what grief is, what it looks like and the kind of trajectory it will follow which is, we’re told, much Continue Reading
Movies
Mini-mass of movie and streaming trailers: Spaceman, Robot Dreams, Constellation, Ripley + Alexander: the Making of a God
(via Shutterstock) Isn’t it weird to be a little relieved that things a tad quiet on the movie and streaming front atm? Clearly not whisper quiet since this post has five trailers, among many currently out there in the world, but quieter than the usual end-of-year-get-this-thing-eligible-for-the-Oscars frantic which is fun Continue Reading
Movie review: The Holdovers
(courtesy IMP Awards) You only have to be alive and in the thick of life for a very short time to realise that at any given time, our lives balance on a wafer thin ledge between bracing hope and searing reality. We obviously want to believe we will tip over Continue Reading
Movie review: Chicken Run – Dawn of the Nugget
(courtesy IMP Awards) There’s not enough whimsicality in the world. To be fair, past and current events don’t really allow much time for quirky playfulness to do its thing but as you watch Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, which does its share of dark and scary moments, you appreciate Continue Reading
Movie review: Good Grief
(courtesy IMP Awards) There is a perfect world that exists within our own, one where all arguments are settled with a few choice words and a hug, where lovers reunite or unite for the first time despite massive gulfs that might exist between them, and where sadness, grief and loss Continue Reading
Movie review: Migration
(courtesy IMP Awards) Life can be a LOT. In many ways, that’s a good thing, with all the thrilling possibility and hope that offers us for great adventures, wondrous discoveries and amazing experiences; sometimes though it can all be too much, and because of trauma or anxiety or a host Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: IF, Which Brings Me to You, Kung Fu Panda 4, Dune Part Two and Self Reliance
(via Shutterstock) Another year, another mass of amazing movies coming our way! Will we have time to watch them all? Likely not. But will we attempt to watch them all anyway? Abso-cinematically-lutely! These five films all have a bit of weirdness and whimsy about them, and while life can feel Continue Reading
Movie review: Wish
(courtesy IMP Awards) Being the surprising optimistic people that we are, we like to think that good intentions will always result in flawlessly happy outcomes. Entire religions and value sets, rom-coms and indeed pop culture kingdoms such as that of Disney, which turned 100 in 2023, are built on the Continue Reading
Popcorn and wine and a comfy seat in the dark: My top 25 films of 2023
(via Shutterstock) It was another full to the brim year of me trying to get to the cinema as much as I could and streaming all the films at my disposal when a physical visit simply wasn’t possible. Still, for all the ease of streaming, there’s something still quite lovely Continue Reading
Merry pop culture Christmas to all … and to all a good streaming-reading-listening night!
(courtesy Pinterest (c) Charles M. Schulz) Merry pop culture Christmas everyone! I have had a ball as always this year writing about all kinds of books, movies, TV/streaming shows, graphic novels/comics and songs, and while it’s been tough to keep writing in my spare time when my day job as Continue Reading