SNAPSHOTWith the home release of Avengers: Endgame, Marvel released two incredible bonus compilations that pay tribute to the late, greatly missed Stan Lee. In both compilations, the ever-gracious Lee talks about his joy to watch his original creations come to life, how much he loves making cameo appearances in Marvel Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Ner Tamid” (S5, E12 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … THE PRESENCE OF GOD, JEWISH ZOMBIES AND CHEESY DOORMATS FULL OF EXISTENTIAL LONGING … If there’s one thing the zombie apocalypse is short of – okay there’s a lot of things it’s lacking but bear with me here for the purposes of a killer opening sentence – Continue Reading
Book review: Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted by Jennifer Armstrong #ValeValerieHarper
The very recent death of Valerie Harper, who played Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spinoff show, simply titled RHODA with wit, sass and lovable intelligence, prompted me to read finally the history of The Mary Tyler Show and how this brilliantly-clever, very funny and heartfelt Continue Reading
Movie review: Animals
Hollywood likes neat endings, largely because, I suspect, people, the ones who puts bums on seats in cinemas, are also rather enamoured of them. It makes sense that we are so enraptured – life is gloriously messy and full of frayed ends, and try as we might to tie everything Continue Reading
When you don’t fit in, stand tall: The challenges of being Tall Girl
SNAPSHOTJodi (Ava Michelle) has always been the tallest girl in school — and she’s always been uncomfortable with it. After slouching her way through life for 16 years and being made fun of by classmates, Jodi meets Stig (Luke Eisner), a seemingly perfect Swedish foreign exchange student who’s even taller Continue Reading
Retro movie review: UP (10th anniversary)
Human beings love dreams. Not the kind that litter our sleep like so much psychedelic, nonsensical candy (though they do hold a certain attraction) but the ones that hold out hope that beyond the banal humdrum of life, true excitement and adventure awaits if only x, y or z plan Continue Reading
Book review: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
One of the great gifts of of being alive is when something small and unexpected becomes something altogether toweringly transformational, changing life for the better in a thousand different fundamental ways. It makes even more of an impact when this great change emerges from something calamitous or dark, such as Continue Reading
We Didn’t Ask For This: Sometimes the fight comes to you (cover reveal)
SNAPSHOTCentral International School’s annual lock-in is legendary. Bonds are made. Contests are fought. Stories are forged that will be passed down from student to student for years to come. This year’s lock-in begins normally enough. Then a group of students led by Marisa Cuevas stage an ecoprotest and chain themselves Continue Reading
A trio of trailers: Archibald’s Next Big Thing, Perfect Harmony, Lady and the Tramp
Here’s the thing. I love TV – I love watching my favourite programs and taking in as many new ones as I can. And yet time is against me as I try to juggle watching TV, reading books, seeing movies and reading graphic novels … and doing life (my boyfriend Continue Reading
Book review: Darius The Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram
Growing up isn’t easy. But this feat of transitioning into adulthood from childhood is made all the more complicated when you have your feet in multiple worlds, none of which really seem to go together. Darius Kellner, an Iranian-American 16-year-old from Portland who’s obsessed with tea-making, Star Trek and Lord Continue Reading