SPOILERS AHEAD … NEAR-DEATH, FALLING STADIUMS AND THE COSILY DELUSIONAL POWER OF SELF-BELIEF … Optimism is a powerful motivator. It propels people forward in a way that pays no heed to the facts on the ground and achieves great things when everything points to ignominious failure being the only Continue Reading
I Feel Bad … the show, not my existential crisis (which is also a thing)
SNAPSHOT I Feel Bad follows “Emet, the perfect mom, boss, wife, friend and daughter. OK, she’s not perfect. In fact, she’s just figuring it out like the rest of us. Sure, she feels bad when she has a sexy dream about someone other than her husband, or when she Continue Reading
Colony: “End of the Road” (S3, E5 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SOME INVOLUNTARY CAMP REDECORATING … It’s tempting to think of people fighting back against tyranny and evil as universally idealistic and possessed of good and noble intentions. In a Disney Resistance – yes you may picture Sleeping Beauty and Snow White with guns, a cache Continue Reading
10 years of Deadpool … and minor X-Men, poor career decisions by Ryan Reynolds and oh yeah, 2 movies
Oh lordy but isn’t the marketing for Deadpool 2 almost, and I stress almost because let’s be honest, the movie is AMAAA-ZIIING (yes that is my vowel allotment for this post almost exhausted but I care not), as good as the film itself? Deadpool on the covers of 16 Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: An endearing avocado half forlornly searches for love in The Pits
SNAPSHOT In a world full of pears, what can you find to fill your pit? A story about longing, love, and finding your other half. …Your heart will break and rejoice as the main character Avo, a lonely avocado roaming the streets of New York City, searches for something Continue Reading
Comics review: Oblivion Song (issues 1-3)
The apocalypse is big business these days. For some reason, and it may have something to do with the fact that ever since the optimistic blush of post-World War Two idealism wore off in the early 1970s that we’ve become more and more convinced the world is going Continue Reading
Get some peace and quiet – go on and Set It Up
SNAPSHOT New York assistants, Harper (Zoey Deutch) and Charlie (Glen Powell), are used to going above and beyond for their high-powered (and highly demanding) bosses, Kristen (Lucy Liu) and Rick (Taye Diggs). But now they’re teaming up for the biggest projects of their young careers – getting their bosses Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Back to the movies of the ’80s with Eighty²
I love movie from the 1980s. OK spoiler alert, I love movies from a number of decades, the increasingly number of which unsettles me greatly (stop aging body dammit) but movies from the ’80s, when I started going to the cinema without parental supervision, have a special place in Continue Reading
Movie review: The Bookshop
One of the most intoxicating things in life is to watch someone fulfil a long held dream. Years of quietly-nurtured hopes and expectations have come to fruition and while success is not necessarily guaranteed, the fact that the dream has found its way from the intangible environs of the Continue Reading
Fascinated you will be: The puppetry of Star Wars
SNAPSHOT [Puppeteer David Barclay], who adored puppetry since childhood, studied under the legendary Frank Oz and assisted with the Yoda character. When Oz needed to go work on another project, he gave the job to Barclay, who would go on to seamlessly recreate Yoda. Barclay also operated and voiced Continue Reading