Falling in love is a wonderful thing. And while you don’t need an artificial construct like Valentine’s Day to let someone you love, or someone you want to love, how you feel, it is, like all these sorts of days, a great time to take stock, think about why you Continue Reading
Movie review: Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn aka Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey
If you have ever wondered, and how could you not have, what it would be like to be plunged headfirst into gloriously twisted cartoonish mind of one Harley Quinn, then your answer, all one hour and 49 minutes is before you in the form of a garishly gorgeous film once Continue Reading
Book review: This Is How It Always Is by Laurie Frankel
Growing up as the son of a Baptist minister in a family heavily involved in the church, the world was presented as a starkly illuminated contrast of black and white, a demarcation between Christian morality which was, naturally enough, presented as good, and worldly values which were quite obviously and Continue Reading
Bill Murray returns to Groundhog Day in playful new car ad
SNAPSHOTIt’s “Groundhog Day” all over again as Jeep brand debuts a Big Game spot starring Bill Murray (in his first-ever national television commercial). But this time reliving the same day over and over again is always a new adventure when you’re driving the 2020 Jeep Gladiator. Jeep. There’s only one. Continue Reading
Movie review: Little Women
So ubiquitous is Little Women, the classic novel published by Louisa May Alcott originally published in two parts in 1868 and 1869, that it is all too easy to forget how revolutionary it was in its time. The novel, which focuses on lives of the four March sisters – Meg Continue Reading
Book review: When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald
We all want a simple life. One in which goodies are goodies and baddies are baddies and there is no massive murky grey zone spreading out between the black and white which are never close enough or as well defined as many of us would like. But that’s life – Continue Reading
Ragnarok review: “New Boy” and “541 Meters” (E1 & E2)
It’s reasonable assumption that if you are a nervous nerdy high schooler, newly-arrived in town, and the wife of the old man you stop to help across the street touches your forehead and your eyes flash with lightning, that you might more than “new kid” syndrome to deal with. Throughout Continue Reading
Book review: Inland by Téa Obreht
In our rush to make some sort of liveable accommodation with the vagaries and contradictions of life, we often fall into the trap of lionising it without paying sufficiently heed to its drawbacks, losses and complications. It’s understandable – while the business of living might feel like a short and Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Be My pop culture Valentine says PJ McQuade
Cole Porter knew that everyone was into love, declaring in his iconic song, “Let’s Do It (Let’s Fall In Love)” … Birds do it, bees do itEven educated fleas do itLet’s do it, let’s fall in love. Someone else who knows about the universality of love and romance is PJ Continue Reading
Book review: Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley
It’s a rare thing indeed for great life changes to arrive without any trauma. In fact, many times, the sense of disruption and loss can be profound and while we usually emerge out the other side, we are changed, making a return to business as usual, which no longer exists Continue Reading