Normally the remembrance of a pivotal holiday is a thing of wonder and nostalgic charm. A respite from the incessantly exhausting demands of the everyday world, holidays usually represent something to be treasured and held in rose-tinted awe, an escape from the failings of the world-weary present that’s wrapped in Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Love According to Dalva, Past Lives and Wildflower
Movies that takes you deeply and sensitively into the human condition are perhaps the rewarding of films to watch. While they don’t possess the bigness and brightness of blockbusters, what they do have in spades is a beguiling sense of human relatability, the sense that even though the characters may Continue Reading
Light those vanilla candles! We’re headed to the Haunted Mansion where things are seriously unhinged
SNAPSHOT“Look alive, foolish mortals!” Inspired by the classic theme park attraction, Disney’s Haunted Mansion is about a woman and her son who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters. Disney’s Haunted Mansion movie is directed by the American filmmaker Justin Simien, Continue Reading
Book review: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
Some people do not like or get people. If you’re an extrovert like this reviewer, that likely seems like an alien idea; sure, people can be annoying and trying at times but gosh, isn’t it good to have them around you? Emily Wilde does not think so, and while she Continue Reading
Once more the centre of attention – The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel releases a season 5 trailer
SNAPSHOTThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — which debuted in November 2017 — follows Midge, a Jewish American housewife, and her family in 1960s New York City. Their seemingly perfect life is turned on its head when her husband, Joel Maisel (Michael Zegen), announces he’s leaving her for his secretary. While rambling Continue Reading
Movie review: Of an Age #MGFF23
We all dream of a love that will last a lifetime. Not all of us achieve it, and even if we do, romantic longevity is a slippery concept that doesn’t always live up to expectations and which suffers from an unsettling clash between idealism and the reality of trying to Continue Reading
Streaming selection 2: Thoughts on Star Trek: Picard (S3, E1-2), The Last of Us (S1, E6-7) and Shrinking (S1, E5-6)
We have sci-drama, apocalyptic tension and hilarious humanity in the spotlight in this post, proof that streaming TV has something for pretty much anyone! Want to see old friends on a bold new adventure? We can do that! What about going to the end of the world and finding that Continue Reading
You can’t always get what you want … but you might what you need with Ted Lasso S3 trailer
SNAPSHOTIn the third season of Ted Lasso, the newly-promoted AFC Richmond faces ridicule as media predictions widely peg them to finish last in the Premier League and Nate (Nick Mohammed), now hailed as the “wonder kid,” has gone to work for Rupert (Anthony Head) at West Ham United. In the Continue Reading
Movie review: Three Nights a Week (Trois Nuits Par Semaine) #MGFF23
Finding the truth of who you are is something that comes to some people early in life, a lightning bolt of self-recognition that sets them off on an unalterable course for the rest of their days, and to others, much later on, a disrupting epiphany that upends the status quo Continue Reading
Book review: The Vintage Shop of Second Chances by Libby Page
There are a great many times in life when things feel so limited and finite, and defiantly, unhealingly one way. No matter how much we yearn for a something new to life us from a too well-carved rut or for life to bring us meaningful connection or for closure to Continue Reading