Belonging, truly belonging, to a group of people, family or otherwise, is one of the great defining attributes of being human. While it’s healthy to define ourselves in our terms as anyone who has ever been part of a dysfunctionally intrusive group will tell you, there is so much to Continue Reading
Weekend movie poster art: The just out of reach answers of Ad Astra
SNAPSHOTBrad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones to star in James Gray’s Ad Astra. The sci-fi epic will feature Jones as the father of Pitt’s character who, 20 years ago, left his son on a mission to Neptune in the search for extraterrestrial life. Pitt’s character, named Roy McBride, then sets Continue Reading
Book review: Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
If there is a creed for science fiction, and no doubt someone somewhere has attempted one since people, most people anyway, tend to love immutable rules, it must surely be to (a) to be expansively imaginative and (b) weave in penetratingly substantial examination of the contrarily complex nature of humanity. Continue Reading
Little Monsters: A zombie comedy with heart … and lots of brains
SNAPSHOTThe film follows Dave (England), a washed-up musician who volunteers to chaperone his nephew’s kindergarten class field trip after taking a shine to the plucky schoolteacher, Miss Caroline (Nyong’o). Dave’s intentions are complicated by the presence of the world’s most famous kids show personality, and competition for Miss Caroline’s affections, Continue Reading
Comics review: Sea of Stars (issues 1-3)
There is something about the wide reaches of spaces that damn near screams out for sprawling, epic space operas. (Not that anyone in space can literally hear you call out but figurative screams are not required, thankfully, to heed the cumbersome laws of physics.) Fortunately for anyone who craves great, Continue Reading
Get your Knives Out (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOTAcclaimed writer and director Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper, The Last Jedi) pays tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie in KNIVES OUT, a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, Continue Reading
Movie review: Ad Astra
Bonds created by parent and child should, in a perfect world at least, be the one of the strongest things in existence. But we don’t live in a perfect world alas, and all too frequently, what should a nourishing, uplifting and nurturing foundational relationship, instead fractures and breaks leaving the Continue Reading
The girls are back in town: Thoughts on Glow season 2
SPOILERS AND A LOT OF SPANDEX AHEAD … With its scene-setting first season successfully behind it, G.L.O.W., occupying the heady mid-decade year of 1985 this time around, takes a pleasing deep dive into the lives of the women (and a few men) who make up the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Continue Reading
Thank goodness he’s not an ordinary dog! Snoopy in Space coming to Apple TV+
SNAPSHOTSnoopy in Space follows Snoopy as his dreams of being an astronaut become a reality when he and Woodstock tag along with the Peanuts gang on a field trip to NASA and are chosen for an elite mission into space. As Snoopy and Woodstock fulfill their dreams of astronaut training Continue Reading
Book review: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
Ask anyone who has ever fallen in love with the written word, and by fallen I mean with that desperate sense of urgency that says words and stories are life itself and their absence is a slow and lingering death, and they will testify with unbridled passion about the power Continue Reading