Celebrity is a curious thing. While the near-omnipresence of a famous person suggests we know them intimately and well, know everything about them in fact, the truth is that we really only know what they and their publicity team choose to reveal. It’s a carefully-constructed facade that, if you dig Continue Reading
Come fly the silent skies … Emily Blunt premieres her super-shhhh new A Quiet Place airline
We’ve all been there. You get on a flight, happy to have a brief friendly nod and inconsequential quick chat with your seatmates before settling into reading a good book as you wing your way to your destination. But it rarely works out that sweetly; noise is everywhere, people are Continue Reading
A terrific trio of TV trailers: The Third Day, Unorthodox, The Undoing
This edition’s trailers tend towards the serious side of the storytelling spectrum and look brilliantly compelling because of it. The series centre on the known and the unknown, offering proof that life moves in mysterious and often troubling ways and figuring out what has gone wrong and if there is Continue Reading
How do spiders stay cool in summer? Lucas the Spider wants to know
SNAPSHOTOh boy, it sure is hot outside! How does a spider keep cool in the summer? (synopsis via Laughing Squid) It’s not technically summer anywhere in our COVID-19 blighted world right now. The Southern Hemisphere has bid the season farewell while the Northern Hemisphere is eagerly looking forward to things Continue Reading
Book review: Desire Lines by Felicity Volk
There is an exquisite beauty and longing to Desire Lines by Felicity Volk which never departs from the idea that life is a chaos of messy entanglements which none of us can ever quite pull apart. That should be obvious but time and again, society, or at least the shouty Continue Reading
Thank you for being a Super Golden Friend: What happens when superheroes retire and move to Miami
SNAPSHOTWhat happens when four superfriends retire and move to Miami to share a ranch style home? This is a pilot I’d like to propose to Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim, if I knew anyone who worked there, and if all the licenses could be obtained. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) It appears Continue Reading
Book review: The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind by Jackson Ford
Rather ironically for an age in which difference has rapidly become villified by far too many people looking for a quick, greasy populist win, pop culture is more obsessed with the Other of all stripes than ever before. The creative arts have often celebrated and held up those who differ Continue Reading
A mass of movie trailers: Romantic Comedy, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, The Room, Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss, The High Note
INTRO ROMANTIC COMEDY NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS THE ROOM SEVEN STAGES TO ETERNAL BLISS SNAPSHOTSeven Stages stars Sam Huntington and Kate Micucci as a couple who think they’ve hit the jackpot when they find a cheap apartment in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, there’s a problem: the apartment was previously inhabited by Continue Reading
Movie review: Honey Boy
Whoever coined the empty, almost universally quoted retort to bullies “Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me” was clearly lacked in some form of meaningful self-awareness. The truth is that while our bodies can usually repair themselves physically in fairly short order, the damage Continue Reading
Uh-oh robots! Is it really time to get Connected?
SNAPSHOTWhen Katie Mitchell (voiced by Abbi Jacobson), a creative outsider, is accepted into the film school of her dreams, her plans to meet ‘her people’ at college are upended when her nature-loving dad Rick (voiced by Danny McBride) determines the whole family should drive Katie to school together and bond Continue Reading