We are captives of our calendars. How else to explain the way looming dates, particularly those for major life events, send us into a flurry of activity and anxiety, a maelstrom of hoping and wishing, planning and organising that in the end, Shakespeare be paraphrased, amount to nothing? Or Continue Reading
Mass of movie trailers – Stan & Ollie, Captain Marvel, Prospect, Ralph Breaks the Internet
So many films, so little fun and yet these three films, all utterly different in their own ways, make you want to find all the time in the world to see them. And so, of course, I will. Granted I am trying to stick to just one movie a Continue Reading
Rip’d from the pages of my childhood: Miffy by Dick Bruna
Dick Bruna, creator of Miffy, died at the age of 89 in February 2017. That might seem like a brutal way to begin an homage to one of the children’s books series, and characters, I treasured most as a child, but the truth is his death rattled me far Continue Reading
Solo: A Star Wars Story – off to hyperspace (and digital + Blu-ray release) we go!
When it comes to Star Wars, and more specifically, Solo: A Star Wars Story, I am more than happy to nail my galactics colours to the mast. I loved this film; as in really, immensely, absolutely enjoyed it. Many didn’t, and I respect it even if I don’t understand Continue Reading
Movie review: Nonnas on the Run (Niente di Serio) #LIFF18
In an age when everyone is being encouraged to celebrate and own who they are without apology – unless you are a rightwing reactionary in which case stay just as you are, thank you; or better yet, don’t be that person at all in the first place – it Continue Reading
Everything is possible … even the impossible: Mary Poppins Returns (new trailer)
SNAPSHOT The cast of Mary Poppins Returns includes Emily Blunt (The Girl on the Train, Into the Woods), Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, Moana), Ben Whishaw (SPECTRE), Emily Mortimer (Hugo) and Julie Walters (Harry Potter films), with Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) and Meryl Streep (Florence Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “MM54” (S4, E14 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND LOTS OF HELPING … WELL, WANTING TO, ANYWAY … “Bad shit happens when you try to help people.” Not exactly the sort of sentiment you’re likely to see splashed across a Hallmark card any time soon, but one voiced in the latest episode of Fear Continue Reading
“Aww c’mon guys, I’ll play nice”: Murphy Brown is back right when we need her
In this somewhat blighted Trump-ian age of “fake news”, opinion as fact and fact as opinion, we have become ever more dependent on and in need of people, particularly journalists and decision-makers who will stand up and tell it like it is even in the face of a barrage Continue Reading
Movie review: Christopher Robin
“There’s more to life than balloons and honey, Pooh.” “Are you sure?” This small but important exchange between an exasperated adult Christopher Robin and a gloriously-innocent Winnie the Pooh captures the very heart and soul of Christopher Robin, directed by Marc Forster to a screenplay by Alex Ross Perry, Tom Continue Reading
A trio of TV trailers! The Flash S5 + Outlander S4 + The First
INTRO THE FLASH (season 5) I’ll be honest – season 4 of The Flash felt a whole lot like treading water, with a plot that could have been done in half the allotted number of episodes. The Thinker (Neil Sandilands) was annoyingly evil if that makes Continue Reading