Who doesn’t love a little magic injected into their everyday life? Sure there’s comfort in our routine, but without those remarkable little moments when something utterly unique and pleasingly different comes across your path, life can get more than a little pedestrian (wordplay most definitely intended when you see Continue Reading
Now this is music: Scandipop special (Iffy Orbit, Highasakite, Peg Pavernik, Nelli Matula, MY)
Ever since ABBA seduced me with their wholesome catchy pop back in the mid-’70s, I have had a thing for the inestimable pleasures of Scandinavianpop music, often referred to as Scandipop. It’s not hard to see why it’s so catchy for me and many other people – it’s usually Continue Reading
A queen beats a straight every time: Will & Grace returns (new trailer)
I am always torn when a TV show I once loved or a long-dormant movie franchise comes back from the pop culture dead. On the one hand, my inner fan boy/girl/pop culture tragic is cartwheeling its way across the park, exuberantly happy to be reunited with old televisual friends. Continue Reading
Movie review: God’s Own Country
For something that can be so vibrantly tenacious, the human spirit can also be astonishingly fragile. One step, or many, away from the happy middle, from the sweet spot in life’s fortunes, and what was potentially a blessed existence, can quickly feel like some sort of existential hell. You Continue Reading
MANAMANA! Feast your eyes and ears on the original 1969 version of the iconic song
(image via YouTube (c) Sesame Workshop) Sesame Street is justifiably famous for a great many things. Its still-necessary mission to educate the children of the world through bold and imaginative means, its hilarous parodies of all kind of pop culture moments (complete with rteachable moments) … and of course, Continue Reading
Book review: A Thousand Paper Birds by Tor Udall
Grief is the enemy of many things. Forward momentum, a belief in a rosy future, creativity, laughter, renewal and rebirth, a sense that if you put one foot in front of the other, even just for a short while, it will lead somewhere meaningful. The exquisitely-wrought debut novel by Continue Reading
Do Shrek and Thor: Ragnarok have much in common? Surprisingly they do
Hands up anyone who has ever thought to commbine Shrek‘s animation with Thor: Ragnarok trailer’s soundtrack? What? None of you? Well, thank Hulk that Darth Blender was so inspired and didn’t just sit there thinking “Damn that’s a left-of-centre crazy clever idea!”, but acted upon it and gave us Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead S3b: There’s a whole new apocalypse in town
If you think the apocalypse was challenging up to this point for Madison (Kim Dickens), son & daughter Nick (Frank Dillane) and Alicia (Alycia Debnam-Carey) respectively, Daniel (Rubén Blades) and Victor (Colman Domingo) then by the looks of the latest trailer for Fear the Walking Dead season 3 part Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: A Single Life – Pizza, music … and yes, time travel
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