Debuting 42 years exactly since the much-loved but slightly infamous 1978 Holiday Special, the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special is a delightful throwback to the Christmas TV specials of old like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) and A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), combining iconic characters, a cheekily seditious sense of Continue Reading
On 4th day of Christmas … I read Christmas: A Biography by Judith Flanders #BookReview
You might ask yourself if Christmas actually needs a biography – aren’t all its many secrets and stories already well known to us? It turns out, as you dive deep into the highly readable Christmas: A Biography by Judith Flanders, that they really, really aren’t. All those stories we know Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more #Christmas songs: Carly Rae Jepsen, Gwen Stefani, Kelly Clarkson, Ava Max, Kevin Max & Michael Tait, Marc Martel and Amy Grant, Tegan and Sara, Porcelan, Alicia Witt, Colton Dixon
Is there a lot of Christmas music out there? There is, in fact, a LOT of Christmas music out there and while we are most often concerned with the albums that come out every year, as you will see in a series of upcoming blog posts reviewing the ones I Continue Reading
On 3rd day of Christmas … I listened to A Very Trainor Christmas by Meghan Trainor
Quite possibly more than most seasons, Christmas is a delightful mix of the exuberantly, garrulously colourful and the meditatively, thoughtfully mellow depending on where you land over the course of December 25th and its fun but often hectic lead-up. This duality of feel and tone is reflected beautifully in A Continue Reading
Movie review: Palm Springs
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