One of the great mysteries of our time, or any time really, is how Santa manages to get to every boy and boy in the world in just one night on Christmas Eve. Granted, thanks to time differences, he has more than the average 8-9 hours to get the job Continue Reading
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Retro French movie review: Hunting & Gathering #BastilleDay
Human beings just weren’t made to be alone. John Donne knew it, Elton John knows it, and deep down, we all know that while solitude and time out is good, being permanently cut off in any kind of meaningful way from the people around us is not good for the Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: A cat, a bird and Catastrophe
SNAPSHOTWhen a little bird suddenly drops dead in its cage, all eyes are on the cat. Desperately he tries to make everything right again but actually making everything worse in the progress. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Have you ever wondered how quickly can a situation get out of control? Wonder Continue Reading
Movie review: Booksmart
In the high school system, things divide, more or less fairly neatly, between the cool kids, the not-cool kids, and the ambivelnt Switzerland-like group in the middle who somehow manage, by some act of teenage alchemy, to be all things to all people. Of course, high school being the monstrously-complicated Continue Reading
Christmas in July: Lucas the Spider makes some festive friends
Lucas the Spider is freaking adorable any time of the year. But there’s something about Christmas, a time of peace, goodwill and togetherness (and stripey festive peppermints), that makes him even more adorably sweet as he tries to befriend a fly to be his buddy at the most wonderful time Continue Reading
Movie review: Spider-Man – Far From Home
Ah, ain’t it great to be young and in love? Maybe, but don’t run that particular line of dreamy romanticism by Peter Parker aka Spider-Man anytime soon. Throughout Spider-Man: Far From Home, which marks Tom Holland’s second standalone outing as the webbed superhero (he has, of course, appeared in a Continue Reading
Stranger Lambs: Shaun the Sheep’s Farmageddon gets very zeitgeist-y
SNAPSHOTWhen the intergalactic visitor – an impish and adorable alien called LU-LA – crash-lands near Mossy Bottom Farm, Shaun soon sees an opportunity for alien-powered fun and adventure and sets off on a mission to shepherd LU-LA home. Her magical alien powers, irrepressible mischief and galactic sized burps soon have Continue Reading
Retro movie review: When Harry Met Sally
They say love is forever. But is a movie about love forever? Can a romantic comedy, no matter how beautifully written and superbly well-acted, truly last as well as the object of its narrative affections? If it’s When Harry Met Sally, and it’s written by the incomparably-talented Nora Ephron and Continue Reading
More than just toys: How Toy Story beautifully explores issues of abandonment (video essay)
No one likes to be abandoned or neglected. It cuts to the very core of our self-worth and lovability and the even the prospect of it, quite understandably, leaves us quaking in our existential boots. The same goes for the toys of Pixar’s Toy Story series, says Isaac of The Continue Reading
A mass of movie trailers: Ad Astra, After the Wedding, Plus One, Trolls World Tour, Under the Silver Lake
Movies! Movies! Movies! Fortunately for a cinephile like myself, they never stop but keeping up with the neverending cascade of trailers can take a lot of time and effort, and were I to put them all on the blog, more site real estate than I could afford, and frankly that Continue Reading