SNAPSHOT As we see in today’s boomer, millennial and zoomer animosity, generational divides can seem so impenetrable that connecting with each other might as well require time travel. ‘Back to the Future’ made this literal when Marty had to meet his parents at his age to understand them. In the Continue Reading
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I need more popcorn and candy stat! My 20 favourite films of 2019
This has been a highly unusual year for me. Back in February my Mum was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and while she heroically fought it for much of the rest of year, until desperately sadly she no longer could (she passed away on 4 November), her illness cast a pall Continue Reading
Movie review: Fisherman’s Friends
The world is ridiculously cruel and unfair at times. We all know it, and while we do our best to navigate our way through and past life, there are times when you wish everything would end as happily as it does in fairytales. Cue Fisherman’s Friends, a film that stares Continue Reading
Merry pop culture Christmas to all … and to all a goodnight!
Merry Christmas from the 25th Century … and also from me! Thanks for a wonderful year of pop culture goodness and here’s to an even better year of books, movies, TV, graphic novels and songs in 2020! But wait … this is the most wonderful time of the year so Continue Reading
Christmas movie review: Let It Snow
There is something particularly charged about certain times of the year when, despite all rational sensibilities to the contrary, people are seized by a need to act on things long dormant. Christmas is just such a time (along, of course, with its week-away calendar companion, New Year’s), and in Let Continue Reading
Rudolph stages the 80s montage-iest of comebacks in RED #Christmas
SNAPSHOTRed had the word at his hoofs, the most famous and talented reindeer on the sleigh. But fame, money, Does and his playboy lifestyle got the better of him. His fall from grace was epic, the party lifestyle getting out of hand, and eventually, he hung up his harness and Continue Reading
Settle in and get cosy – it’s time for A Sesame Street Christmas Carol
As cultural shadows go, they don’t come much bigger than that cast by Charles Dickens and his classic festive novel A Christmas Carol, which has been interpreted, in one form or another, by just about TV show and movie that has existed. And why not? The themes of loss, selfishness, Continue Reading
I’m dreaming of a romantically cookie cutter festive season: James Franco hilarious parodies every Hallmark Christmas movie
SNAPSHOTEvery Christmas season, we can be sure that Hallmark Channel will have more than enough heartwarming holiday films to keep us entertained all month … And yes, these Hallmark holiday movies are super fun to watch, but we can’t help but notice they all seem a little similar. SNL hilariously Continue Reading
Movie review: Star Wars – The Rise of Skywalker
You might find it hard to believe but there are downsides to being the steward of one of the most successful cinema franchises of all time. Star Wars, which took the world by storm in 1977 when George Lucas released his charmingly low budget swashbuckling sci-fi epic, A New Hope Continue Reading
On 10th day of Christmas … I watched the movie Noelle
Unless you are someone staging a nativity play, in which case strict depiction of sacred religious truths is a virtue, there is a temptation whenever you tell a story about any aspect of Christmas’s many well-worn tropes and cliches to place your own merry, eggnog-addled spin on it. In fact, Continue Reading