Even if you get along brilliantly well with your father, and I am thankful that I did while my dad was alive, the idea of travelling with them anywhere, let alone on a kid of replacement gap year, is fairly intimidating. After all, it’s one thing to share a Continue Reading
Ready to get scarily generous? Sesame Street’s Sharing things gets you in the mood
Oh Sesame Street, take me to the Snackside Down! I’m not usually a fan of scary horrific alternate realities but when they’re part of an alternate Sesame Street parody reality where Stranger Things, Netflix’s hit show where up is down and down is up and your laundry bill to Continue Reading
Now this is music #100: LANY, Novo Amor and Ed Tullett, Jacob Banks, RYD, Tom Ronsenthal
Our hearts and souls are often filled with so mnay emotions, it can sometimes (or often) feel like you’ll never be able to express them all. And if we do feel like the power to articulate them all lies within us, finding the words, especially when the emotions are Continue Reading
Zoinks! It’s Scooby-Doo and Batman: The Brave and the Bold
I’ll confess – I’ve always found Batman way too dour for my superhero tastes (which are, at best, limited anyway). I much prefer superheroes like Deadpool, Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor in Ragnarok mode and even Iron Man. But Batman? A little too dark and weighed down by his Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: How symbolism is used to represent its various houses
Any way you look at it, Game of Thrones is a clever, complex, multilayered show. Part of its appeal is that it invest meaning in every scene, every characters words and actions, with nothing left to chance. As the knowledgeable people at ScreenPrism beautifully explain, this extends to its use Continue Reading
Do the Dance of Joy! Perfect Stranger Things is here!
A sitcom staple in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Perfect Strangers was a delightful, if unchallenging, tale of two distant cousins, one American-born, another an immigrant, who have to overcome all kinds of cultural and other hurdles to arrive at something approaching domestic bliss. The humour was more Continue Reading
Comics review: Bodie Troll
Bodie Troll won’t like me telling you this so shhhhh, but good lord, he’s freaking adorable. Yes, yes I know, trolls aren’t supposed to be adorable or sweet or lovely or Anne of Green Gables meets Pollyanna wonderful or in fact anything good, wholesome and kind. They are, as Continue Reading
The Florida Project: Summer is long but is the living easy?
SNAPSHOT Set on a stretch of highway just outside the imagined utopia of Disney World, The Florida Project follows six-year-old Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) and her rebellious mother Halley (Bria Vinaite) over the course of a single summer. The two live week to week at “The Magic Castle,” a budget Continue Reading
Retro movie review: Forces of Nature
From pretty much every conceivable angle, getting married is a pretty wonderful thing. There’s all that true love forever after (well until the divorce papers are served; whoops, kinds broke the romantic spell there), committing yourself to that special someone, friends and family looking on, dressing up, dressing down Continue Reading
Is there nothing that Rogue One’s Chirrut Imwe can’t do? NO #StarWars
If you saw Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and seriously if you haven’t why not, you will remember it is one of the darkest, most bloody films in the franchise’s considerable canon. Telling the story of the intrepid band of brave rebels who successfully managed to get the Continue Reading