Pinocchio is one of those stories that we think we know intimately and well, thanks to the 1940 Disney animated version of the book by The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (with illustrations by Gris Grimly) which has gripped the public consciousness ever since its release and which defines for many Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #83: Rose Gray, Jake Shears, Maisie Peters, Loïc Nottet and Anne-Marie + Eurovision 2023 update!
Life is HARD. For all the ups, and they are sweet, there are plenty of downs and struggling can be everything. It helps then to have singers like the five featured here to not only help you make sense of it all, but to set their thoughts and ruminations to Continue Reading
Hail the Best Pictures of the year: Montage showcases all 10 nominees
SNAPSHOTThe Best Picture nominees from 2022: All Quiet on the Western Front (directed by Edward Berger), Avatar: The Way of Water (directed by James Cameron), The Banshees of Inisherin (directed by Martin McDonagh), Elvis (directed by Baz Luhrmann), Everything Everywhere All at Once (directed by Daniel Kwan & Daniel Scheinert), The Fabelmans (directed by Steven Spielberg), Tár (directed by Todd Field), Top Gun: Maverick (directed by Joseph Kosinski), Triangle Continue Reading
Streaming selection 3: The Mandalorian (S3, E1-2) and Not Dead Yet (S1, E3-5)
A sitcom and a sci-fi drama reviewed in the same post? Why not, I say; sure, they are wildly disparate genres, and have little to nothing in common but then that’s the joy of an eclectic taste in streaming programs. You can veer wildly from one type of narrative to Continue Reading
Book review: Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
One of the most exciting things about reading science fiction is its limitless capacity to take you to places that you never in a million years or multiverses encounter. We live in a limited world, bounded by atmosphere and space, and circumscribed by culture, geography and a thousand other finite Continue Reading
Worlds will collide: Official trailer released for Disney’s American Born Chinese
SNAPSHOT“Worlds will collide.” Jin Wang (Ben Wang), struggling with his school life and home life, meets the new foreign exchange student at his school, leading him to become involved in a battle between Gods of Chinese mythology. American Born Chinese is a series created by Kelvin Yu – a character Continue Reading
Book review: I’ll Leave You With This by Kylie Ladd
The conventionally bucolic ideas of families is that they are warm, safe, inclusively supporting places where unconditional love and selfless intimacy are the hallmarks of relationships brought together and nurtured, not just by proximity but by a genuine liking for the others with whom you are fated by birth to Continue Reading
UPCOMING READ: Is salvation possible in Foul Heart Huntsman by Chloe Gong
SNAPSHOTWinter is drawing thick in 1932 Shanghai, as is the ever-nearing threat of a Japanese invasion. Rosalind Lang has suffered the worst possible fate for a national spy: she’s been exposed. With the media storm camped outside her apartment for the infamous Lady Fortune, she’s barely left her bedroom in Continue Reading
A semi-ton of streaming trailers: Schmigadoon! S2, Silo, I’m a Virgo, Rennervations + Barry S4
I am an ambitious man. No, I do not long to bring about world peace (though that would be nice) or to become president of something or to write the definitive novel to which all other novels are compared (though that would, naturally, be also very nice). What I do Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Love burns fiercely if shyly in Extinguished
SNAPSHOTIn a world where flames represent love, it’s easy to get your heart burned. (courtesy YouTube (c) Ashley Anderson and Jacob Mann) Being attracted to someone romantically is pretty exciting. All those swirly emotions, all that hope, those waves of thrilling possibility – it’s a delight! But sometimes, no oftentimes, Continue Reading