SNAPSHOTJapanese mom Etoni Mama turns fried and boiled eggs into adorable cartoon characters. Etoni Mama is also a culinary artist in her own right and a published author. The title is “Saiji-ki Foods For Children” This book is full of recipes that offer a fun and delicious take on seasonal Continue Reading
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Movie review: Queen and Slim
All of us come to a point in our lives where a decision is made, often a bad one, where life is never even remotely the same again. In his recently-released book, Sharks in the Time of Saviours, Kawai Strong Washburn captures with poetic truthfulness what it is like in Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: Uncorked, Lost Transmissions, Jungle Cruise
We live in exceedingly weird times. With COVID-19 cutting a swathe of disruption across the globe, the issue for many cinemagoers right now, quite apart from whether you should go to a pplace of public gathering such as a cinema at all, is whether you will actually get to see Continue Reading
Movie review: A Friendly Tale (Le bonheur des uns…) #FFF2020
If a good friend of yours quietly told you that they had written a novel and were excited by this new found burst of creativity and that no less than France’s most famous writer, impressed by their talent, had encouraged them via Facebook to pursue their dream, you would be Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The anatomically correct fun of “Cartoon Fossils”
You’ve no doubt heard people shopping for a home, or the real estate agents tryiong to sell them one, say that a house has “got good bones”. It’s the ultimate compliment and means that while house may look ill-kempt or unloved, that it’s basically got the makings of sound and Continue Reading
Come fly the silent skies … Emily Blunt premieres her super-shhhh new A Quiet Place airline
We’ve all been there. You get on a flight, happy to have a brief friendly nod and inconsequential quick chat with your seatmates before settling into reading a good book as you wing your way to your destination. But it rarely works out that sweetly; noise is everywhere, people are Continue Reading
How do spiders stay cool in summer? Lucas the Spider wants to know
SNAPSHOTOh boy, it sure is hot outside! How does a spider keep cool in the summer? (synopsis via Laughing Squid) It’s not technically summer anywhere in our COVID-19 blighted world right now. The Southern Hemisphere has bid the season farewell while the Northern Hemisphere is eagerly looking forward to things Continue Reading
A mass of movie trailers: Romantic Comedy, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, The Room, Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss, The High Note
INTRO ROMANTIC COMEDY NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS THE ROOM SEVEN STAGES TO ETERNAL BLISS SNAPSHOTSeven Stages stars Sam Huntington and Kate Micucci as a couple who think they’ve hit the jackpot when they find a cheap apartment in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, there’s a problem: the apartment was previously inhabited by Continue Reading
Movie review: Honey Boy
Whoever coined the empty, almost universally quoted retort to bullies “Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me” was clearly lacked in some form of meaningful self-awareness. The truth is that while our bodies can usually repair themselves physically in fairly short order, the damage Continue Reading
Uh-oh robots! Is it really time to get Connected?
SNAPSHOTWhen Katie Mitchell (voiced by Abbi Jacobson), a creative outsider, is accepted into the film school of her dreams, her plans to meet ‘her people’ at college are upended when her nature-loving dad Rick (voiced by Danny McBride) determines the whole family should drive Katie to school together and bond Continue Reading