Debuting 42 years exactly since the much-loved but slightly infamous 1978 Holiday Special, the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special is a delightful throwback to the Christmas TV specials of old like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) and A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), combining iconic characters, a cheekily seditious sense of Continue Reading
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Movie review: Palm Springs
Once more, to the time loop, my friends once more! While that is pretty much the raison d’etre of this particular genre of film, of which Groundhog Day and Edge of Tomorrow are likely the most well known examples, there can be a little foreboding about the fact that we Continue Reading
On 2nd day of Christmas … I watched Happiest Season
Coming out is never easy. Immensely freeing and rewarding, yes but not easy, something that becomes even more pronounced a reality at significant times of the year such as Christmas which is already already heavily-laden with expectation and a certain emotional intensity. There is never more apparent that in the Continue Reading
On 1st day of Christmas … I hung 15 new pop culture ornaments on my tree incl. Scooby-Doo!, Roger Rabbit, Onward, Laurel and Hardy + Captain Marvel, A Bug’s Life, Ghostbusters, Star Wars
If any year needs a filled to the tip of the needles Christmas tree, it is this one. (Let’s be honest, all years need festive decorating but 2020 really needs it.) I will admit to the fact that my Christmas in July tree never really came down – it’s a Continue Reading
Movie review: Holidate
There is something about the holidays, any holidays really but especially the big ticket, expectations laden ones like Christmas, that almost demand you are happily coupled up. That’s doesn’t necessarily mean you have to be to enjoy them; the very idea is ridiculous and an insult to anyone single on Continue Reading
Movie review: Uncle Frank
There is an undeniable power, an emboldening if you like, to finally completely and irrevocably owning and celebrating who you are. Nothing can match discarding the petty, snide snark of the peanut gallery, of the bullies and the taunters and the disapprovers and embracing who are you in all your Continue Reading
Gravity defying stop-motion festiveness: Alien Xmas (review)
One of the most comforting parts of Christmas, a season dedicated to making us feel like everything is gloriously and perfectly right with the world, is settling down to watch the slew of new and old Christmas specials, TV shows and movies at our disposal. Most people will have favourites Continue Reading
Movie review: A Christmas Gift From Bob
Christmas films are the comfort food of the season, a chance to pretend, if only for a couple of hours, that the world is as wonderful as we imagine it to be at this time of year. It’s usually not, of course, because sadly the world at large does not Continue Reading
Movie review: Summerland
If you’ve been paying attention, and really the business of being alive pretty demands it in one form or another, it won’t have escaped your attention that life is a big fan of unfinished moments. We, however, not so much; human beings are made for neat and tidy endings and Continue Reading
Retro movie review: Speed
You may not think that the role of a bus driver in a ’90s action thriller might be a golden ticket to movie fortune and fame but that is exactly what the role of Annie proved to be for Sandra Bullock who took a role that could’ve simply been sidekick Continue Reading