The far, far past was a dangerous time for humanity. What with carnivorous, hyper-coloured kangaroo/armadillo hybrids, jagged ice trees that surge from the ground with no warning, landscapes that range from deserty and rocky to dangerously giant bug-filled and earnest post-cave dwelling hipsters, there was a lot that could go Continue Reading
Movies
The short and the short of it: The touching search for love in Unbreakable
SNAPSHOT“Unbreakable” is the story of Barbara the Bunny. When she begins to persistently cough, “Quality Control” at the toy factory labels her “defective,” and so her search for treatment begins. She goes from shop to shop to no avail, until she discovers a loose string of yarn that takes her Continue Reading
Movie review: High Ground
Films, by and large, and this is by no means a hard and fast rule, either fall into two distinct camps – those you watch and those you experience. High Ground, a superlatively affecting Australian film, directed by Stephen Maxwell Johnson to a screenplay by Chris Anastassiades (from a story Continue Reading
Movie review: My Salinger Year
In an idealised world, pursuing your dreams is a thing of ethereal perfection, a waftingly hopeful sensation that is equal parts sigh-inducing wonder and a tenacity to succeed that always pays off and is never less than astoundingly and soul-enrichingly triumphant. Alas, we beings with feet of dream-hollowing clay do Continue Reading
Crack them open! Easter Eggs revealed for The Mandalorian and Soul
If you consume any kind of pop culture media in our postmodernist, digital, information saturated age, you will be well acquainted with the concept of “Easter eggs” which are defined, as per Wikipedia, as “a message, image, or feature hidden in a video game, film, or other, usually in electronics, Continue Reading
Movie review: Godmothered
If it were possible, and to be fair, she is only one woman (though an extraordinarily gifted one at that), it should be mandated that Jillian Bell be cast in as many movies as can accommodate her. There is something about this actress, who first made it on many peoples’ Continue Reading
Movin’ Right Along? Kermit and Fozzy find a way to keep things going (virtually) during lockdown #COVID19
SNAPSHOTJoin us as we all get Movin’ Right Along into 2021 with a song in our hearts, a banjo on our knee, and a bear behind the wheel. Happy New Year!!! ….from The Muppets. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) If ever there was a year that sapped, almost completely, our will Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The beautifully affecting friendship of Chocolate Cake & Ice Cream
SNAPSHOT“My son, Trent, began spontaneously playing a sentimental tune on the piano. My twin brother, Scott, joined in with singing the words ‘chocolate cake and ice cream’. The silly words seemed to lighten our heavy hearts. I came alongside, and we all sang in harmony together. It was just a Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Malcolm & Marie, Outside the Wire, Persian Lessons
What a strange holiday period 2020 into 2021 turned out to be. No surprise there since 2020 was, by any and all measures, a very, very strange and disconcerting year but even so, you hope for something magical from the Christmas period, right? Hope springs eternal and all that … Continue Reading
Movie review: Sylvie’s Love
If romance existed solely in the world of the fantastical and the fairytale, then every great meeting of heart and mind would proceed unfettered and unencumbered by the tedious demands of our all too banal world. But alas we do not live in the realm of sweeping, horizon-free love, and Continue Reading