As a species, humanity has shown a healthy evolutionary disposition for engaging in flight rather than fight, the better to live and build civilisation another day. Of course, though, sometimes the challenge before us demands a fearsomely fight-driven response, something we instinctually seem to know when a particular problem plagues Continue Reading
Movies
A mini-mass of movie trailers: Funny Pages, Catherine Called Birdy + The Good House
The world is our oyster when it comes to cinematic offerings. There are films everywhere all of a sudden, then result no doubt of a pandemic bottleneck which, while not totally freed, is far more open than it was, allowing us to once more disappear into worlds far away and Continue Reading
Movie review: Good Luck to You, Leo Grande
It is near impossible to watch Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and not have your heart pulled from your chest, shaped, prodded, poked and split into two and healed before being placed back in your chest beating furiously and with gloriously, heartwarmingly renewed purpose. You could possibly say that Continue Reading
Movie review: Prey
Having your expectations about a particular film blown to smithereens – in a good way, not the hype-exceeds-reality way – is one of those rare life pleasures that never gets old. Especially in an era where every single film is known about, dissected and examined to within an inch of Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Inside Pixar reveals the journey of inspiration behind Dan Scanlon’s feature Onward
Where do the great storytelling ideas come from? If you’re a creator, you’ll likely shrug your shoulders and mutter a resigned “I have no idea” since inspiration seems to often strike out of nowhere, with little warning and some strange weird portal inside you for which there is no good Continue Reading
Movie review: Luck
Whether you are of a superstitious bent or right, we live in a world which seems to believe that much of what happens to us in life is beyond our control. It’s hard to say if this is the result of some pretty determined blame-shifting or hardcore laziness or simply Continue Reading
Movie review: 70 is Just a Number (70 on vain numero)
Age should not really be an impediment to doing anything in life. Admittedly infirmity or limitations imposed by advancing years do play a part, but those unavoidable parts of the ageing process aside, if you’re young and vital enough to still carpe diem the hell out of things, including falling Continue Reading
The rebellion begins: Action-packed new trailer and poster for Star Wars: Andor
SNAPSHOTThe Andor series will explore a new perspective from the Star Wars galaxy, focusing on Cassian Andor’s journey to discover the difference he can make. The series brings forward the tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became involved. It’s an era filled with Continue Reading
Movie review: Tuesday Club (Tisdagsklubben)
Popular culture is full to the reinventive brim with people forced, through all kinds of coercive circumstance, to remake their lives. Some do it willingly not, many not, but the pattern is always the same – chaos as the old is swept away and the new come crashing in, and Continue Reading
A tantalising ton of trailers: Never Have I Ever (S3), Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Blonde, Oppenheimer, A League of Their Own
Get set to spend your days and nights watching even more movies and shows – as if you aren’t doing that already! Sleep is for the streaming disinclined, right? – because the trailers keep coming, people! In fact, every single one of these five films and shows is worth the Continue Reading