After 18 months of harrowing, constraining, good mental health-sapping pandemic, it’s a reasonable assumption to make that most people are in need of a good laugh, a warm hug, some schmoozy romantic love and music so buoyantly light you can feel your spirit rise right along with the peppy notes. Continue Reading
Nailed It! season 6 has a trailer … and more messy cake-y, pie-y goodness and hilarity
SNAPSHOT“For those that have managed to miss the first five seasons and yet clicked here anyway, the show is essentially like the various Baking Championship specials but with the twist that no one who competes can actually bake. So, you can expect lots of laughs in this show as incompetency Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Undiscovered Country, Volume 2: Unity by Scott Snyder & Charles Soule
There is a real art to balancing a completely bonkers premise with some pithy, salient observations about the brokenness and weirdness of humanity which somehow still manages to hang onto something approaching hope, and Undiscovered Country, now back with a second off-the-wall Alice in Wonderland-meets-Mad Max narrative instalment, manages with Continue Reading
Book review: Notes From the Burning Age by Claire North
You would think after hundreds of thousands of years of evolution and the concomitant civilisation building that goes with it, that humanity would have learnt from its past mistakes and found a way to not repeat them ad infinitum. But this appears not to be the case with the twentieth Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: The Starling, I’m Your Man, Hudson
Indie films are good for my soul. While there are those who like to mock their earnestness or their stylistic artifice, there is often great meditative depths to these films, which give their narratives the necessary time to explore issues like grief and loss or a deep longing for connection Continue Reading
“How do you tell someone you’re Spider-Man?” Teaser trailer lands for Spider-Man: No Way Home
SNAPSHOT“Following the events of Spider-Man: Far From Home, Peter Parker’s life and his reputation is turned upside down following his identity being exposed at the hands of Mysterio. Seeking help from Stephen Strange to try and fix everything, things soon become much more dangerous and Parker must find what it Continue Reading
Elmo: An Anything Muppet who became everything to lots of people
SNAPSHOTWith his bright red coat, big orange nose, and wide eyes, Elmo is arguably the most famous of the Sesame Street muppets – but he didn’t always have it this good. Elmo began as an ‘Anything Muppet’–an extra, if you will, until Kevin Clash refashioned his character into the one Continue Reading
Movie review: In the Heights
Maintaining hope in the face of adversity, or simply a lack of substantial and real change, is taxing for anyone. Even more so, when you have placed everything on the line when it comes to fulfilling your dream and all you see for your effort of incremental advancement that seems Continue Reading
Welcome back old friends! Thoughts on the first 4 episodes of Grace and Frankie season 7
You know that lovely feeling you get when you connect with old friends you haven’t seen in a while? How that long-established sense of familiarity and intimacy comes rushing near instantly and you find yourself talking as if mere minutes, not months or years have passed, and suddenly it feels Continue Reading
Book review: The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams
There is real power in reading. Some people might find that surprising or amusing – how can something so apparently inert have the ability to make palpable change in someone’s life, or at the very least, give them the means and the support to cope with it? And can something Continue Reading