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
Movie review: Aftersun
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