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
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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
Hello Han Grant or is that Cary Solo? Inventive mash-up unites Star Wars and North by Northwest
SNAPSHOTThis time, he is their only hope!Cary Grant is back in a new galactic adventure!When Alfred Hitchcock meets George Lucas… (synopsis via Laughing Squid (c) Fabrice Mathieu) It might seem like the unlikeliest of combinations but French filmmaker Fabrice Mathieu has found a way, a highly-talented and brilliantly entertaining way to Continue Reading
Sit up and take notice: The history of Mandalore explained
SNAPSHOTThe saga of the planet Mandalore is spread across ’90s comic book series Tales of the Jedi, the animated series The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, and the live-action series The Mandalorian. Here is the history of Mandalore explained. (synopsis courtesy Laughing Squid) Keeping track of all the various Continue Reading
Movie review: Soul
Just what exactly makes for a well-lived and satisfying life? It’s sounds like a simply enough question but dig down, as Pixar’s latest animation masterpiece Soul does with poignancy, honesty, good humour and rich imagination, and it becomes quickly apparent that there’s a far bigger answer waiting for someone to Continue Reading
I need more popcorn and candy stat! My 25 favourite films of 2020
What a strange and abnormal year 2020 has been when it comes to almost everything, including going to the movies. Or rather, NOT going to the movies; at least, not in a cinema, anyway. With COVID necessitating lockdowns in countries all over the world, some still in place as I Continue Reading