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
UPCOMING READS: Graphic novel Alice Ever After now available in volume 1 collection
SNAPSHOTAlice first visited Wonderland as a child. Now grown up, it’s become her only escape from a cold, harsh world that feels even less real—a distant family, a tormented lover, and a father with secrets he’ll do anything to protect. But in order to return to her fantasy, Alice will Continue Reading
Book review: A Man and His Pride by Luke Rutledge
As a gay man, you commonly come across the idea that the life you lead must be one of endless partying, unremitting casual sex and a fabulousness wrapped in feather boas, soaked in glitter and strung about with rainbow-hued neon. That’s understandable in one sense since it is the popular Continue Reading
Movie review: The Innocent (L’innocent)
Family life is never as picture perfect as we’d like it to be. For many of us that simply means things are a little quirky or dysfunctional instead of Hallmark-ready sigh worthy but for others, such as The Innocent (L’Innocent)‘s Abel (Louis Garrel who also directed and co-wrote the film), Continue Reading
Laughing on the way to solving a mystery: Thoughts on Poker Face (S1, E1-5)
Have you ever wondered, and if not, why not, what a reboot of Murder, She Wrote would be like if Jessica Fletcher (played by the delightfully talented and now sadly departed Angela Lansbury) was a minimum-wage worker (and sometimes not even that), on the run from organised crime casino-owning thugs, Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: The Magician’s Elephant, Tetris and John Wick: Chapter 4
As with any storytelling medium, there’s a huge diversity of narrative options in movies. That’s on vibrantly full display with today’s selection which encompasses an animated search for belonging and connection, some tense Cold War politicking bundled up with an origin story and some good old-fashioned, globetrotting shoot-em-up vengeance like Continue Reading