Simon’s Cat knows how to party! Decorate like crazy (and play with the balloons naturally while you do!), invite good friends over with whom you spend copious amounts of time, treat yo’self (use Community as your guide), read and respond to all the messages … and presents! It goes Continue Reading
Movie review: The Meyerowitz Stories
As much as we like to believe in the idea of “one big happy family”, the reality is that even the most functional and well-adjusted of families have a stubborn streak of dysfunction running through them. Perhaps it’s the inevitable outcome of flawed humanity, or of an innate predilection Continue Reading
“Heavens to Murgatroyd!” Snagglepuss is reborn as a gay Southern playwright #comics
SNAPSHOT “Snagglepuss in this story is having to live a double life as a gay playwright living in New York, and he’s closeted. But he has values and integrity as an artist, and he’s trying to stand up for people who otherwise would be shoved under the stairs in Continue Reading
Book review: In Every Moment We Are Alive by Tom Malmquist
When someone very close to you dies, it’s entirely natural for people to extend their condolences, to offer their love and support in any way they can and to be present with you in your emotionally-enervating moment of grief and loss. It’s a brief bubble when loving arms envelop Continue Reading
Star Wars: Designing a Universe of Sound (video essay)
By any estimation Star Wars is a cinematic landmark. Through its 40 years of history – yes fellow 1977 viewers of the first movie we are, in fact, that old – George Lucas’s franchise, now ensconsed in and being given new life by Disney who have dramatically stepped production Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “Into the Forest I Go” (S1, E9 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND KLINGONS BUT HEY YOU KNEW THAT ALREADY RIGHT? “We are about to face the most difficult challenge we have ever attempted. Today, we stare down the bow of the Ship of the Dead, the very same ship that took thousands of our own at the Continue Reading
Bright: take a dive into the dark side of things (featurette + trailer)
SNAPSHOT Set in an alternate present-day where humans, orcs, elves and fairies have been coexisting since the beginning of time, this action-thriller directed by David Ayer (Suicide Squad, End of Watch, writer of Training Day) follows two cops from very different backgrounds. Ward, a human (Will Smith), and Jakoby, Continue Reading
Book review: The Enchanted Places by Christopher Milne
When you think about characters as beloved as Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Eeyore and the rest of the residents of the Hundred-Acre Wood, it’s easy to assume that everything to do with them must be equally as bucolic and paradisaical as they are. After all, Continue Reading
He’s a genius! Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas
SNAPSHOT Tad travels to Las Vegas to see his friend Sara’s latest discovery: a papyrus that proves the existence of King Midas, who turned everything he touched into gold thanks to the power of a magical necklace. But the happy encounter between Tad and Sara is disrupted when the Continue Reading
Comics review: Angelic (issues 1 & 2)
It is said we stand on the shoulders of those came before us, and in so far as belief systems persist, physical reminders of their presence persist, culture, arts and political discourse are informed by their antecedents, that’s true. But what happens when all you have is fragments? A Continue Reading