SNAPSHOT Melt Down was my senior year film at Pratt Institute. It’s a surrealist narrative story about a body-less boy who doesn’t want to go outside, among other wacky characters in a world where people melt from stress. (synopsis via Vimeo) There is no denying that life can be Continue Reading
Movie review: Hearts Beat Loud
Life throws a myriad of challenging-to-navigate moments our way on a regular basis – you could well argue it’s the overweening predilection of a universe seemingly at odds with the idea of an easy passage to anything – but perhaps one of the greatest obstacles is that faced by Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The imaginative wonder of Matt Gaser’s sci-fi worlds
Advanced though our current digital age may be, and replete with all kinds of wonderful benefits denied to people past (benefits I love and use frequently), you can’t help feeling that we’ve also lost something in this rush to progress – a sense of magic and wonder, that feeling Continue Reading
Book review: The Biggerers by Amy Lilwall
If there’s one thing humanity has fund itself particularly adept at, and this is not a cause for blue ribbons or backslapping with gusto, it is placing itself on a gleaming pedestal and fancying itself as some sort of nature-ordering deity. You can trace that god-like fascination to religions Continue Reading
Now this is music #112: CHINAH, Nicole Millar (feat. Muki), ViVii, CYN, Allie X
There is an unfortunate tendency, and this happens regardless of the creative medium used, to treat the quieter, more reflective voices as having less impact or worth than those who express themselves far more loudly and stridently. But that attitude does a disservice to people like the five music Continue Reading
I Think We’re Alone Now … or are we? (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT The film follows Del (Peter Dinklage) who finds himself alone in the world, literally, after the human race is wiped out. He’s content in his solitude – until he discovers Grace (Elle Fanning), an interloper on his quiet earth. Her history and motives are obscure, and worse yet, Continue Reading
Movie review: Crazy Rich Asians
At this stage in the mostly rich and august history of cinema, you could be forgiven for wondering if there is anything new under the genre sun. Specifically, if romantic comedies, traditionally one of Hollywood’s favoured genre sons, has anything new to contribute to a long line of member Continue Reading
Morality in 20 minutes: How The Good Place redefines the sitcom
When you think about it, sitcoms have to accomplish a huge amount in 20 very short minutes. They have to make us care about characters, develop a cohesive storyline, obviously make us laugh – hence the comedy bit – and somewhere in the midst of all of this activity, Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Weak” (S4, 12 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SOME REASSURING AND CHILLING IDEAS ON WHAT CONSTITUTES STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS We are kings and queens of the fight-or-flight response, and for good reason; back in ye olde prehistoric days, hanging around for a fight you couldn’t win or staying in the path of some Continue Reading
Video essay by Michael Tucker: Black Panther — Creating an Empathetic Villain
Black Panther is hands down one of the best films of the year. (Not just Most Popular OK Oscars, thought it is that, but BEST FILM.) Part of the reason it is so damn watchable, among so, SO many reasons, is that it took the time to not simply Continue Reading