SNAPSHOT A picture-perfect, loving family discovers that their daughter has fallen ill. While her parents set out to get her the treatment she needs, her determined older brother turns to the power of imagination to help both of them cope. While the outside world offers tragedy, these pure children Continue Reading
Book review: Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham
Lauren Graham is one of my favourite people in the world. I say this quite confidently though I have never met her nor conversed with her at length on social media – nothing says I know you well than an almighty long Twitter thread these days right? – it’s Continue Reading
I love you more than everything: Beautiful Boy (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Steve Carell and Amy Ryan are teaming up again for the upcoming addiction drama Beautiful Boy. Based on the critically-acclaimed 2008 memoir “Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey Through His Son’s Addiction” by David Sheff. Carell will play David, and Ryan will play Vicki, David’s ex-wife. She was kept Continue Reading
Christmas in July #2: I read A Sesame Street Christmas by Pat Tornborg
If you’re a big kid at heart, and honestly where is the fun in not being one, then you’ll adore the idea of immersing in the loveliness and bonhomie of A Sesame Street Christmas. First published in by Golden Books in 1982 with a delightful story of the Muppets Continue Reading
No calm after the storm: Fear the Walking Dead debuts S4b poster + trailer
SNAPSHOT The first half of season four began with one figure huddled around a campfire, and ended with nine. Characters who started their journeys in isolation collided with each other in unexpected ways and found themselves in one of the last places they ever expected to be…together. In the Continue Reading
Movie review: Edie
It may sound a strange thing to say in a creative medium fit-to-bursting with stories of redemption and hope but there are precious few authentic feel-good tales in modern cinema. Too often legitimately affecting narratives are over-burnished or emotionally overwrought to such a degree that they remain moving but Continue Reading
Adam Rex dares to ask – Are You Scared, Darth Vader?
Darth Vader scared? C’mon as if that would happen! Ah yes, but what if he was left alone with a young kid on a sleepover who in that playfully relentless way kids have decided to see if he could scare a man who is the author of fear, and Continue Reading
Now this is music #107: 8 Graves, NoMBe, LIONE, Cōfresi, DNMO
I love artists who push the musical envelope, who dare to very much do their own thing but who also retain an ability to tap into the kind of humanity that makes the best pop songs so damn relatable. These five artists have all those qualities in spades, delivering Continue Reading
Can you tell me how to get to … my 3 favourite Sesame Street characters
I started watching Sesame Street pretty much right from the word go, way back in the early ’70s. Being a young impressionable kid, I loved pretty much everything about it, happily finding my way to Sesame Street, any and every opportunity I got. While I loved everyone on the Continue Reading
LONGEST. FLIGHT. EVER. What happened to the much-delayed passengers of Manifest?
SNAPSHOT Manifest begins “when Montego Air Flight 828 landed safely after a turbulent but routine flight, the crew and passengers were relieved. Yet in the span of those few hours, the world had aged five years and their friends, families and colleagues, after mourning their loss, had given up Continue Reading