Movies are increibly intricate when you think about it. A ton of moving parts with everything from a perfectly-written script to first-rate actors to an inspired director, pitch-perfect music and dazzlingly good cinematography having to come together having to come together to make it all work. Sometimes of course Continue Reading
Book review: Animals Strike Curious Poses by Elena Passarello
Though humanity likes to wrap its relationship with the natural world in Disney-esque romantic notions of togetherness and interdependence, the harsh reality is that since we first picked up tools and starting altering our environment, we have been doing the animals around us a great disservice. This has only Continue Reading
About as romantic as F: new Love, Simon trailer shows love with a great big secret
SNAPSHOT Everyone deserves a great love story. But for seventeen-year old Simon Spier it’s a little more complicated: he’s yet to tell his family or friends he’s gay and he doesn’t actually know the identity of the anonymous classmate he’s fallen for online. Resolving both issues proves hilarious, terrifying Continue Reading
Now this is music 101: Yung Lean, Gabriel Black, Said the Sky & FRND, Pale Waves, Sir Sly
I love listening to music. (If you haven’t figured that out yet, then clearly you haven’t been paying attention.) But more than that, I need the music to say something meaningful to me, to dig into the marrow of life and really think about what makes it tick, what Continue Reading
Do you like your fantasy animation Short But Sweet? Well, you’re in luck …
You know how a lot of fairytales end with … “And they all lived happily ever after”? It’s a comforting thought isn’t it? Life rarely gives anything approaching truly happy endings; hell we can barely manage mildly pleased most of the time and forget about a donut when you Continue Reading
Movie review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
How do you extricate yourself from the mire of grief and its myriad, messy repercussions? Is is even possible or are you constantly captive to the irrationality and deep-flowing emotional currents that come in the wake of losing someone? They’re two of the insightfully-asked questions posed by writer/director Martin Continue Reading
Great Scott! Back to the Future doesn’t look quite so shiny in actual 2015
If there is one thing, among many to be honest, that I loved about Back to the Future films, it was its breathless, glittering expectation of what 2015 would look like. Way back in 1985, the film franchise, politely putting aside the complete and utter lack fulfilment of the Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “The Wolf Inside” (S1, E11 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND ENOUGH EXISTENTIAL ANGST TO KEEP FRENCH PHILOSOPHERS BUSY FOR DECADES … POSSIBLY CENTURIES … There are monsters lurking inside all of us. That deeply unpalatable truth is narratively front and centre in Star Trek Discovery‘s latest tour de force offering with Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) wrestling Continue Reading
Comic review: Rocko’s Modern Life (issues 1 & 2)
One of the great delights of Rocko’s Modern Life, one of the great cartoons of Nickolodeon’s ’90s line-up which is finding new life in comics and on the screen again, has always been its devotion to anarchic silliness. Taking a leaf out of the manic hilarity of Looney Tunes Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: High-flying Disney characters go distinctly lowbrow
Think of Disney, which is well on the way to becoming the entire entertainment industry, and you think of sweet, uplifting characters, great morality and an uplifting, often inspiring take on life. Ah but not if you’re French artist Giles Bousquet who has imagined what Disney’s many iconic characters Continue Reading