Once more, to the time loop, my friends once more! While that is pretty much the raison d’etre of this particular genre of film, of which Groundhog Day and Edge of Tomorrow are likely the most well known examples, there can be a little foreboding about the fact that we Continue Reading
On 2nd day of Christmas … I watched Happiest Season
Coming out is never easy. Immensely freeing and rewarding, yes but not easy, something that becomes even more pronounced a reality at significant times of the year such as Christmas which is already already heavily-laden with expectation and a certain emotional intensity. There is never more apparent that in the Continue Reading
#Christmas book review: The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn
Is Christmas a romantic time of year? That depends very much on who you ask but it is true, at least for the most part for Lily and Dash, two quite different young people who, after a red Moleskine book full of dares sends them running all New York and, Continue Reading
On 1st day of Christmas … I hung 15 new pop culture ornaments on my tree incl. Scooby-Doo!, Roger Rabbit, Onward, Laurel and Hardy + Captain Marvel, A Bug’s Life, Ghostbusters, Star Wars
If any year needs a filled to the tip of the needles Christmas tree, it is this one. (Let’s be honest, all years need festive decorating but 2020 really needs it.) I will admit to the fact that my Christmas in July tree never really came down – it’s a Continue Reading
The Mandalorian – “Chapter 14: “The Tragedy” (S2, E6 review) / Star Trek: Discovery – “The Sanctuary” (S3, E8 review)
THE MANDALORIAN SPOILERS AHEAD … AND MYSTIC JEDI STUFF AND WHOLLY UN-MYSTIC HUMAN STUFF TOO … The tearing sound you hear in “Chapter 14: The Tragedy” in the uniformly excellent second season of The Mandalorian is Din Djarin’s (Pedro Pascal) heart absolutely and completely breaking. Granted, you can’t see his Continue Reading
Life, and Christmas, got you down? Even Santa his down days according to this funny, lovely ad
SNAPSHOTA humorous advertisement directed by Matias & Matias for the Norwegian Postal Service features an angry Julenissen (Santa Claus) who tells his therapist that he feels become outdated and finds himself wishing for those bygone eras in which he was welcomed inside every home across the land. He lauds a Continue Reading
Book review: The Trials of Koli (Rampart Trilogy #2) by M. R. Carey
Humanity has risen and fallen and rise again more times than the average historian can count. Ours is not a history built on success after endless success, unpunctuated by failure or loss; rather, we have lost almost as much as we have gained, and yet each times we have been Continue Reading
The top ten dares of Dash & Lily ranked for your festive viewing pleasure
SNAPSHOTWhich Dash & Lily dare is the most daring? Once Lily (Midori Francis) challenges Dash (Austin Abrams) to a simple dare via a red notebook, he retaliates with a dare of his own, sparking a series of escalating challenges. Which one was #1? Watch to find out! (synopsis via YouTube Continue Reading
Movie review: Holidate
There is something about the holidays, any holidays really but especially the big ticket, expectations laden ones like Christmas, that almost demand you are happily coupled up. That’s doesn’t necessarily mean you have to be to enjoy them; the very idea is ridiculous and an insult to anyone single on Continue Reading
Comics review: Cellies (Volume 1 & 2) by Joe Flood and David Steward II
Life can be pretty tough when you’re in that place between the formation of your dreams and their hoped-for fulfillment; tougher still when that place is wholly held afloat by a minimum wage job that doesn’t pay nearly enough for all the stress involved and buttressed by parents who don’t Continue Reading