Grief is often seen as a short-lived but powerful phenomenon, a vehemently chaotic upsetting of the established emotional order than sweeps in, does incalculable damage before receding leaving painfully temporary damage in its wake. People treat it as something that comes after a terrible event, a vicious interlude in the Continue Reading
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The hilariously heartwarming glorious joy of A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa #ChristmasInJuly
The Muppets are about as joyful as things gets at the best of times. But how much is the joy factor increased when its Christmastime and Kermit, Fozzy and Gonzo and the gang have to go all the way to the North Pole to deliver some letters to Santa that Continue Reading
Movie review: Love. Wedding. Repeat.
True love is never a foregone conclusion. Most romantic comedies would have us believe there is a delicious inevitability to Cupid’s machinations, but the truth of the matter is that there’s a lot that can go wrong between initial attraction and the happily-ever-after sealing of the relational ideal. Just how Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: “Acorn” goes searching for his place in the world
SNAPSHOTCalArts student Madeline Sharafian, whose work we’ve previously posted, has created Acorn, a short animated film that tells the story of a tiny acorn who was ripped from the loving limbs of a giant oak by strong wind and forced to make his own way to find a place in Continue Reading
A marvellous mini-mass of movie trailers: Summerland, Radioactive, Project Power
Getting to see movies in the cinema this year has proved all but impossible thanks to COVID-19. It still remains the case that seeing movies on the big screen is more difficult than it used to be with cinemas selling a vastly reduced number of tickets due to social distancing Continue Reading
Movie review: The Half of It
Love, of the kind that resides with Cupid, in endless romantic comedies and more than a few Hallmark cards and Valentine’s Day rose bouquets, is a fairly polarising thing. While there are those who sing its praises with lofty, rose-coloured glasses abandon, believing firmly, like Plato, that we are separated Continue Reading
Movie review: Love Sarah
Initially, and this is thanks largely to a trailer which is eager to accent the heartwarming quirkiness of it all, Love Sarah comes across a fey, souffle-light whisp of a film, the kind the British churn out (in the nicest possible way) with the polished efficiency of, well, a well-run Continue Reading
They’re not going down without a fright: Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo!
SNAPSHOTScooby-Doo and Shaggy’s favorite holiday is upon us! With fake monsters and candy galore, Halloween is heaven for these hungry foodies going door-to-door. But this year, their sweet holiday turns sour when the neighborhood pumpkin patch is infected by toxic ooze, creating high-flying jack-o-lanters, and a king-sized pumpkin leader squashing Continue Reading
Pop culture festiveness! The 5 ornaments I hung on my #ChristmasInJuly tree
I have put up a Christmas in July tree! Those who know me well will not be surprised by this at all, since I love Christmas with the same fervour and passion that I reserve for caramel cheesecake and releases of new books by my favourite authors. But in previous Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: “B is for Ben” and the problems of leaving an alien planet
SNAPSHOTBen is having problems getting back to his spaceship on a stranded desert planet. He is an astronaut, he has gadgets, what could go wrong? (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Hands up anyone who wants to be stuck on an arid alien planet? No one? Thought so. Into that large number, Continue Reading