Christmas is supposed to be rose, cosy and oh-so-festively nice. Well, that’s the luminously lovely PR anyway; the truth is, it doesn’t always live to the pitch, no matter how hard we try and we arrive at the festive season feeling ill-prepared, all-at-sea and unsure if we have what it Continue Reading
Weekday character movie poster pop art (+ first full trailer): The Super Mario Bros. Movie
SNAPSHOTFrom Nintendo and Illumination comes a new animated film based on the world of Super Mario Bros. It is the third feature film adaptation of Nintendo’s Mario video game franchise, following the anime film Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach! (1986) and the Hollywood live-action film Continue Reading
Grab your light sabers and your Bantha! We’re going on a LEGO Star Wars: Summer Vacation
Can you ever take a holiday from being a hero? That’s the question topmost on Rose Tico’s (Kelly Marie Tran) mind when everyone, and by everyone we mean a phalanx of Star Wars: Skywalker Saga including Finn (Omar Miller), Poe (Jake Green), Rey (Helen Sadler), R2-D2, C-3PO (Anthony Daniels) and Continue Reading
Movie review: Margrete – Queen of the North (Margrete den Første)
Humanity exists, all too often, caught between its lofty ideals and the gruesome truth of its natural state, dreaming of peace, love and prosperity but ending up with the bloodied corpse of war and destruction in its hands instead. This reaching for the stars but falling into the mud dynamic Continue Reading
Book review: Lessons by John Purcell
Is there such a thing as a happy ending in real life? We clearly to think so – how else do you explain the prevalence of romantic comedies and gushy love stories in just amount every storytelling medium there is? But it’s that very ubiquity which fulsomely nods its longing Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #79: P!NK, Kinder, Forester, John Legend, UPSAHL + Eurovision 2023 update
DANCE! No, that is not a piece of passive-aggressive instruction giving; rather, it’s a joyful injunction to step away from the day-to-day, switch on some great upbeat music that speaks to your soul and just let loose. But which music to choose? What will bring about this soul-restorative escapist state Continue Reading
Small acts lead to a seismic change on Andor (S1, E10-12 review)
——————– SPOILERS AHEAD ——————– Rebellions, and the revolutions they often, though not always, give rise to, are often big disruptive things. Intrinsically a militantly passionate act of opposition to oppressive or authoritarian government, they often involve big epic moments such people deciding en masse that enough is enough, mass acts Continue Reading
Weekend movie character poster art: Dive deep into the faces of Avatar – The Way of Water
SNAPSHOTSet more than a decade after the events of the first film, Avatar: The Way of Water begins to tell the story of the Sully family, the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies Continue Reading
Galactic Ho Ho Ho! The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special review
When something is intrinsically a part of your life, it can be almost impossible to see it as might appear to someone lacking with any familiarity with it. Take Christmas, for example, which is, on the face of it, a holly jolly time of the year when peace and goodwill Continue Reading
Movie review: Strange World
There is often, though not always for everyone, safety and surety in family. It’s a place of belonging, of identity and of love where we can be assured, again most of the time, that we will find sanctuary, affirmation and the certainty of who we are and how we are Continue Reading