SNAPSHOT In this Oscar-nominated short, a mysterious vinyl record suddenly allows Pia to travel through time. A Single Life has been screened at more than 200 festivals and it has been awarded with 40 prizes. (synopsis via Vimeo) If you’ve been paying attention, you will have noticed that vinyl Continue Reading
Movie review: Maudie
Life’s capacity to be both a dispenser of both cruel fate and of loving restorative possibility is on full, luminous display in Aisling Walsh’s Maudie, an emotionally-resonant biopic of celebrated Canadian artist Maud Lewis. A woman with more cause than many to rue the day she was born, Maud Continue Reading
Is that you Kermie? The Muppets most recognisable face gets a brand new voice
What this? Kermit the Frog embroiled in a nasty juicy scandal that doesn’t also feature Miss Piggy? When news broke that the man who had voiced one of the most beloved Muppets out there for over 25 years (since creator Jim Henson’s death in 1990), Steve Whitmire, had been Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: “The Dragon and the Wolf” (S7, E7 review) #seasonfinale
SPOILERS AHEAD … ZOMBIES AND BROTHERS AND LITTLEFINGER OH MY! You know how wonderful it is how, after an astonishingly long period of bitter estrangement, a family comes back together again, mends broken bonds, speaks words of healing, and they all become one big happy again? No? Well, you’re Continue Reading
Stuck for an answer? You should Ask a Cat
As a cat person of longstanding, I am firmly of the opinion that cats are the font of all wisdom and sociability. (Contrary to popular opinion, cats, well at least the cats I’ve owned, have been quite happy to spend quality time with their favourite feeders, I mean humans). Continue Reading
Now this is music #95: Dreamcar, JAMATAR ft. Natalie Foster, Amery, Meg Mac, Oceana
One of the best parts of listening to songs by a diverse range of artists is hearing the way each of them, in their own unique style, pour their heart and soul into their music. Investing their songs with the richness of their experience, of their struggles and the Continue Reading
A beguiling universe: Dive into the mystery and wonder of The Constellation Chronicle
SNAPSHOT After a research team tasked with mapping the outer system goes missing and a strange artefact is recovered, the star system of La Sillia is plunged into a series of conflicts and struggles as they attempt to forge a new destiny amongst the stars. This sci-fi epic follows Continue Reading
Book review: Blackout by Mira Grant
The final book in the imaginatively-named Newsflesh Trilogy, in which society survives the zombie apocalypse but in a form almost unreconisable to the one we know today, Blackout is all about reunions, farewells and yes, the revealing and bringing to justice of those behind the great conspiracy that has Continue Reading
The answer is always YES: Words of wisdom from Cookie Monster’s Joy of Cookies book
Life can be a tad tricky to navigate at times. Oh who are we kidding? It can be freaking impossible much of the time, and so, we look to those with wisdom, experience, special insights and well-earned truth to guide us. As figures of authority go, you can’t do Continue Reading
Movie review: Small Town Killers (Dræberne fra Nibe)
You know that point in any marriage or longterm relationship where the love has died, the sex has followed suit, and you decide that it’d be cheaper and easier just to hire a hitman to kill your partner than resolve the issues or divorce? No? Well Ib (Nicolas bro) Continue Reading