Have you ever wondered what all the other bunnies who aren’t the Easter bunny do when he or she is out there handing out eggs in a hippity-hoppity fashion? Sure, some of the other bunnies might be engaged in helping the Easter Bunny do their thing but not all of Continue Reading
Celebrate a very Winnie the Pooh Easter in Springtime with Roo
Watching a delightful animated special like Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo comes with an easter basket full of seasonal cognitive dissonance if you’re from the Southern Hemisphere, in this case, Australia. For her way down in the Antipodes, Easter marks the arrival of Autumn, a time when everything’s still Continue Reading
Warrior. Outcast. Rebel. Jedi. Teaser trailer introduces us to Ahsoka
SNAPSHOTA spin-off from the series The Mandalorian, taking place in the same timeframe as that series and its other interconnected spin-offs after the events of Return of the Jedi (1983). Rosario Dawson stars as Ahsoka Tano, reprising her role from The Mandalorian. The character was created for the animated series Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2023: Week 3 – Norway, Portugal, Serbia, Sweden and Switzerland (Semi-final 1, part 3)
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Sitcom review round-up! Shrinking (S1, E9-10), and Ted Lasso (S3, E1-3), and The Big Door Prize (E1, S1-4)
It’s a fiesta of laughs with heart and meaning! Enjoy … Shrinking (E1, S10) As someone who has experienced the incalculably awful of losing both parents with a 3.5 year period, grief is ever present. Not as stingingly strong as it was when I first lost my dad in June Continue Reading
Movie review: Maria Into Life (Maria rêve)
If we’re honest, most of us fall into ruts without even realising it’s happened. Life kicks off into adult gear, and dares us to keep up or fall behind, and so we find ourselves on a weird existential hamster wheel of sorts, one made up of jobs and bills and Continue Reading
Book review: The Knighton Women’s Compendium by Denise Picton
When you have something good going on, change can be a very hard thing to deal with. That applies even when the change that comes along is eventually good, the product of life bestowing all kinds of happy eventualities on people who face great adversity and come out the other Continue Reading
Turn the colour and fun up! Trailers for Barbie and The Muppets Mayhem brighten up life
Does life feel a little drab? The edges are a little blurred and indistinct, the in-fill lacking in vivacity and zest? Well, fear dear friends also caught in a beige tide, for Barbie and The Muppets Mayhem have arrived to make your world pop with a technicolour and some whimsical Continue Reading
The end is closer than we think: Get ready for the Secret Invasion
SNAPSHOTSecret Invasion is a newly announced series heading to Disney+ that stars Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and Ben Mendelsohn as the Skrull Talos—characters who first met in Captain Marvel. The crossover event series showcases a faction of shape-shifting Skrulls who have been infiltrating Earth for years. Secret Invasion Continue Reading
Witness the world-changing events of Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City (poster and trailer)
SNAPSHOTWes Anderson’s latest film Asteroid City takes place in a fictional American desert town circa 1955. The itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention (organized to bring together students and parents from across the country for fellowship and scholarly competition) is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events. Asteroid City is directed by acclaimed Continue Reading