Perhaps Lauren Eden, a Melbourne poet with a gift for elegant, exquisitely well-expressed lines said it best when she observed in her collection Of Yesteryear that “We live in the small spaces between our words / hiding between the said / and all we cannot say.” There is an ocean Continue Reading
Movies
A marvelous mini-mass of movie trailers: The Green Knight, The Iron Mask, The French Dispatch
The possibilities of cinema are endlessly expansive. For every serious, Oscar-worthy film, there are equally well-made films that are full of quirk and wonder and a glimpse of the human condition told through wholly different and welcomingly offbeat eyes. These three films, all coming to a cinema or streaming service Continue Reading
Movie review: Sell By #MGFF20
Cinema, for all the nuance it brings to some of its storytelling, loves extremes. Especially when it comes to love where we are either treated to the glories and wonders of love true love in all its candy-coloured euphoria or the very darkest, bleakest end of times where the once Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The truth of who we are in My Body
SNAPSHOTA teenage girl is staring at herself in a mirror. She doesn’t like what she sees; fat, skinny, ugly, she looks like a monster. Maybe she should just take a step back and realize she’s not that monstrous. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Seeing ourselves as we really are is never Continue Reading
Billie Eilish unleashes atmospheric theme song for new Bond film No Time to Die
Bond songs are, for the most part, exercises in euphoric or profoundly-troubled bombast. They are not subtle but then are they are not lacking in elegance either, something brought beautifully to life by Billie Eilish, fresh from winning a swag of Grammy Awards, who invests a whole lot of angst Continue Reading
The wonder of books and dreaming: New documentary The Booksellers
SNAPSHOTAntiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history. The Booksellers doc takes viewers inside their small but fascinating world, populated by an assortment of Continue Reading
Movie review: Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn aka Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey
If you have ever wondered, and how could you not have, what it would be like to be plunged headfirst into gloriously twisted cartoonish mind of one Harley Quinn, then your answer, all one hour and 49 minutes is before you in the form of a garishly gorgeous film once Continue Reading
Bill Murray returns to Groundhog Day in playful new car ad
SNAPSHOTIt’s “Groundhog Day” all over again as Jeep brand debuts a Big Game spot starring Bill Murray (in his first-ever national television commercial). But this time reliving the same day over and over again is always a new adventure when you’re driving the 2020 Jeep Gladiator. Jeep. There’s only one. Continue Reading
Movie review: Little Women
So ubiquitous is Little Women, the classic novel published by Louisa May Alcott originally published in two parts in 1868 and 1869, that it is all too easy to forget how revolutionary it was in its time. The novel, which focuses on lives of the four March sisters – Meg Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Be My pop culture Valentine says PJ McQuade
Cole Porter knew that everyone was into love, declaring in his iconic song, “Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love)” … Birds do it, bees do itEven educated fleas do itLet’s do it, let’s fall in love. Someone else who knows about the universality of love and romance is PJ Continue Reading