When you or someone you love is diagnosed with cancer, there are a million different things (or it feels like that, anyway) that you have to deal with, usually in a very short amount of time. What’s my prognosis? Are my options plentiful or not? Should I undergo chemotherapy or Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #27: Aquilo, Ane Brun, Price Park & Jade Alice, uomo, Porter Robinson
Life is busy and wonderful and exhausting and full of a million things to contemplate normally, even more so when things take a very dark turn like they have in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Processing it all can sometimes feel like an impossible task, beyond anything we can Continue Reading
At home COVID-19 French Film Festival: Gaspard at the Wedding (Gaspard Va Au Mariage) #MovieReview
Released in 2017, Gaspard va au Mariage or Gaspard at the Wedding is a genre defier par excellence. With an adroit narrative zest courtesy of writer/director Antony Cordier, the film leaps with beguiling, quirky grace from romantic comedy to lo-fi family drama to a gently farcical comedy, all while remaining Continue Reading
Weekday pop art: Character posters released for Space Force
SNAPSHOTA decorated pilot with dreams of running the Air Force, four-star general Mark R. Naird (Steve Carell) is thrown for a loop when he finds himself tapped to lead the newly formed sixth branch of the US Armed Forces: Space Force. Skeptical but dedicated, Mark uproots his family and moves Continue Reading
Book review: The Last Human by Zack Jordan
If you take a look at the vast majority of sci-fi tales, humanity is everywhere … and in multitudinous profusion. Oft times we are the leading light of the universe, other times reviled but we are always there, somewhere, Terrans in the mix who make the galaxy go round. But Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Hey Gunther – who are you really?
SNAPSHOT“Günther [is] a rather surreal, but humorous animated short that features a naked hot dog named Günther who dances his way across a quest to find out exactly who he is. Along the way, he comes across some very colorful characters performing all sorts of tasks of the nonsensical variety. Continue Reading
High-key nerds, low-key virgins: Thoughts on Never Have I Ever
If you were judge Never Have I Ever on its appealing trailer alone, you might be tempted to think it’s yet another in a long line of quirky coming-of-age Netflix tales with preternaturally articulate teens, great big perplexing growing up life issues and a beguiling mix of quirky humour and Continue Reading
Book review: The Coconut Children by Vivian Pham
Finding your way through the many challenges that growing up demands is difficult at the best of times but even more, when the world in which all this growing up is taking place is almost inimical to this most universal of human transitions. Sonny, the protagonist of Vivian Pham’s evocatively Continue Reading
Comics review: Bloom by Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau
The ill-defined but promising period between the late teenage years and nascent adulthood comes with both a heady hope for the fulfillment of long-held dreams but also a terror that they might never be expressed at all. In most cases, optimistic expectation wins out, a crash-or-crash-through positivity that sees many Continue Reading
Book review: Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara
We all know that for all its occasional beauty and moments of fleeting inspiration, that we live in a broken, bestial and horrific world. That’s not being downbeat, simply realistic. The horrors of inequality, cruelty, abuse and murderous intent are all laid grimly bare in Deepa Anaparra‘s luminously revelatory book Continue Reading