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
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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
Movie review: A Guide to Second Date Sex
Ryan (George MacKay) and Laura (Alexandra Roach) like each other. They really, REALLY like each other. Having only a met a week earlier in a noisy nightclub when they standing awkwardly side-by-side and, ignored by the bartender, had no real choice but to try and talk to each other. What Continue Reading
Terrific trio of movie trailers: Holly Slept Over, Premature, Irresistible
Off to the cinema we go again! It’s a brilliantly mixed bad this time around with some fantastical relationship issues given a refresher, a young woman negotiating love and all its complexities and a political drama that makes a series of salient points while having fun doing it. Enjoy … Continue Reading
Movie review: 1917
War is by any measure one of the most evil and nightmarish of things that humanity has ever inflicted on itself. For most of us, those fortunate enough to have been spared the bloody pointlessness of armed conflict, it is a universally acknowledged truth and nothing more; it is only Continue Reading
Movie review: Underwater
Humanity is, in general, not a huge fan of things that go bump in the night or, for that matter, of anything that swims menacingly just out of sight in deep, dark water. And yet, when the siren song of immense profits call, as they do in the William Eubank-directed Continue Reading