SNAPSHOT Musa Syeed’s film A Stray follows Adan (Barkhad Abdirahman), a Somali refugee living in Minneapolis with no place to go. His mom has kicked him out and his friends are tired of his headstrong ways. As a last resort, he moves into the mosque, and surprisingly, God answers his prayers. He quickly Continue Reading
My favourite kind of hilarious: Kate McKinnon’s improv outtakes from Ghostbusters
One of the standout stars of this year’s immensely-wonderful all-female addition to the Ghostbusters franchise, Ghostbusters: Answer the Call, was Kate McKinnon who played the part of gloriously-unhinged but ferociously-intelligent scientist Dr Jillian Holtzmann. One of the current stars of Saturday Night Live (SNL), McKinnon is regrettably not hugely Continue Reading
Movie review: This Beautiful Fantastic
If you believe the near-constant barrage of ads glorifying the bold, the beautiful and the attractively conformist, then only those fitting a very narrow ideal of social acceptance have any chance of finding love. But Simon Aboud’s absolutely delightful film This Beautiful Fantastic (he both wrote and directed the film) Continue Reading
Pssst Alfred – over here! Yeah, there’s a new LEGO Batman trailer
SNAPSHOT In the irreverent spirit of fun that made The LEGO® Movie a worldwide phenomenon, the self-described leading man of that ensemble — LEGO Batman — stars in his own big-screen adventure: The LEGO® Batman Movie. But there are big changes brewing in Gotham, and if he wants to Continue Reading
Book review: Peggy & Me by Miranda Hart
It’s tempting to look at celebrities, even those from what Miranda Hart refers to as the “pretty earthy, budget-constrained variety of show business” (BBC sitcoms), and assume their lives unfold in some sort of gilt-edged ivory tower untroubled by the cares and concerns of our everyday world. But as Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: True friendship cleans up in Dust Buddies
SNAPSHOT Dust Buddies is a story about the friendship between two dust bunnies, Fuzz and Lint, who live peacefully under a couch. When an evil maid comes to clean the house and sucks Fuzz into her vacuum, Lint must overcome his fears and set out to rescue his friend. Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “The Cell” (S7, E3 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … WALKERS LYING DOWN ON THE JOB AND DEALS WITH THE DEVIL AKA NEGAN COMING BACK TO BITE YOU ON THE PROVERBIAL* The zombie apocalypse is generally not the kind of situation that if you would think of as boring, predictable or rut-like. Existentially excoriating yes. Continue Reading
Falling Water: What if your dreams are not your own?
SNAPSHOT An intersection between reality and unconscious thought, FALLING WATER is the story of three unrelated people, who slowly realize that they are dreaming separate parts of a single common dream. Each is on a quest for something that can only be found in their subconscious. However, the more Continue Reading
Ginger and Snapper find real humanity in the midst of the apocalypse
SNAPSHOT Ginger is a little girl living in the wake of a zombie apocalypse. While most of the planet has perished because they stuck to the cities, Ginger lives way out in the country and thus far hasn’t seen a single zombie. She also hasn’t seen a living person Continue Reading
Book review: The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin
In the West, where sensitivity to free flowing spirituality often finds itself subsumed to logic and consumerism more often than not, the idea of reincarnation is often treated with outright scepticism and ridicule, or at the very least, benign neglect. For some reason, the idea that we are not wholly Continue Reading