When something is intrinsically a part of your life, it can be almost impossible to see it as might appear to someone lacking with any familiarity with it. Take Christmas, for example, which is, on the face of it, a holly jolly time of the year when peace and goodwill Continue Reading
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Movie review: Strange World
There is often, though not always for everyone, safety and surety in family. It’s a place of belonging, of identity and of love where we can be assured, again most of the time, that we will find sanctuary, affirmation and the certainty of who we are and how we are Continue Reading
Birthday retro movie review: While You Were Sleeping
Given they’re about love, longing and the good feelings that make life worth living, it’s easy to assume that romantic comedies aka rom-coms are full to the brim with real, actual emotionality, the kind that sears the soul, makes the heart feel truly alive and reminds you that you are Continue Reading
Movie review: Slumberland
All too often when you lose someone close, it’s a catastrophically sudden thing that leave little to no time to deal with either its occurrence or its emotionally chaotic aftermath. You are suddenly cut adrift, unmoored from the certainties of your life, and wish with every part of you that Continue Reading
Welcome to Element City! Pixar releases teaser trailer for Elemental
SHAPSHOTDisney and Pixar’s Elemental is an all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they Continue Reading
Movie review: Black Panther – Wakanda Forever
Blockbusters, especially those bouncing with superhuman dexterity and grace off the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) production line, rarely have tangibly real emotion in abundance. But Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, written and directed by Ryan Coogler (he co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Robert Cole) seems determined to prove that this is Continue Reading
Movie review: Enola Holmes 2
Pick an upbeat word, any upbeat word, and there’s a very good chance the dictionary will say point you straight to Enola Holmes 2. Leaving aside why the good burghers of dictionary-dom would do this, save for the fact that they, like us, have been utterly beguiled by the sparkly Continue Reading
Weekday movie poster art: Character images released for Disenchanted
SNAPSHOTIt has been more than ten years since Giselle (Adams) and Robert (Dempsey) wed, but Giselle has grown disillusioned with life in the city, so they move their growing family to the sleepy suburban community of Monroeville in search of a more fairy tale life. Unfortunately, it isn’t the quick Continue Reading
Movie review: The Lost King
It’s tempting to think of the chaotic world in which we live, and of the people who inhabit it, both current and historic, in starkly binary terms – good and evil, black and white, laudable and not. It helps us make sense of a messy world and it reassures us Continue Reading
Movie review: Joyride
One of the great weights that hang, albatross-like, around our necks as we go through life, is that things are supposed to happen a certain way. Somehow our collective consciousness as a society has decided that, whatever the circumstance and no matter how individual the experience, we must all go Continue Reading