Darth Vader scared? C’mon as if that would happen! Ah yes, but what if he was left alone with a young kid on a sleepover who in that playfully relentless way kids have decided to see if he could scare a man who is the author of fear, and Continue Reading
Now this is music #107: 8 Graves, NoMBe, LIONE, Cōfresi, DNMO
I love artists who push the musical envelope, who dare to very much do their own thing but who also retain an ability to tap into the kind of humanity that makes the best pop songs so damn relatable. These five artists have all those qualities in spades, delivering Continue Reading
Can you tell me how to get to … my 3 favourite Sesame Street characters
I started watching Sesame Street pretty much right from the word go, way back in the early ’70s. Being a young impressionable kid, I loved pretty much everything about it, happily finding my way to Sesame Street, any and every opportunity I got. While I loved everyone on the Continue Reading
LONGEST. FLIGHT. EVER. What happened to the much-delayed passengers of Manifest?
SNAPSHOT Manifest begins “when Montego Air Flight 828 landed safely after a turbulent but routine flight, the crew and passengers were relieved. Yet in the span of those few hours, the world had aged five years and their friends, families and colleagues, after mourning their loss, had given up Continue Reading
Book review: The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
Human beings are an innately communal species. It’s one of the things that define us – our need to not simply be in close proximity to our fellow women and men but to know them, laugh with them, drink and eat with them, and above all, profoundly connect with Continue Reading
Who is responsible for the distinctive look of sitcoms? You might be surprised
SNAPSHOT Karl Freund was the genius cinematographer behind Metropolis, the silent film classic. But then he designed the set for I Love Lucy – the first of the multicam, laugh-track heavy sitcoms. Today, they look bland, but it wasn’t always that way. But at the time, Freund had a Continue Reading
Liar liar pants on fire! Or is he? We find out in Luis and the Aliens
SNAPSHOT No-one believed Luis’s dad when he said he’d been attacked by an alien. And growing up with an obsessed Ufologist for a father hasn’t been easy for 12-year-old Luis, either. But then three crazy aliens crash their ship right in front of Luis, and finally, he’s got the Continue Reading
Colony: “The Big Empty” (S3, E9 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … TORTURE AND GRIEF’S PARTIAL RESOLUTION Ask anyone who has experienced immense and immeasurable grief to describe it in any way. Odds are you will be given a bewildered look and an exhausted shrug of the shoulders accompanied by a haunting look in the eyes that this Continue Reading
Drawing Wallace the Brave: Will Henry brings his protagonist to life
As a writer who is, naturally enough, most comfortable with moving words merrily around a page, I am endlessly fascinated by the way artists, whose talents I most assuredly do not share alas, exercise their creative gift. This fascination increases inestimably when it is an artists drawing a comic Continue Reading
Now this is music Canadian/Canadienne: The Monowhales, Port Cities, Ralph, Charlotte Cardin, Virginia to Vegas #CanadaDay
I am fairly certain I was a Canadian in another life. That, or there is a Canadian hiding somewhere deep inside of me that has gifted me with a love of salmon, friendliness, bonhomie, openness and maple syrup, and a whole host of other things that make visiting this Continue Reading