Moving on, even when a glittering prospect beckons, is never easy. It’s complicated a thousand fold when the decision to take a particular road in life affects not just you but a host of people around you. It’s the situation that 16 year old Paula Bélier (Louane Emera), the only hearing Continue Reading
Not so cute after all huh? The Minions get an honest trailer
Awww the Minions are so cute aren’t they? Well yes, yes they are and deservedly so what with their cute rotund shapes, their banana-yellow colouring, cute pack mentality and gibberish that sounds like a mix of baby’s first words and how you imagine your cat or dog might Continue Reading
Book review: My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises by Fredrik Backman
Humanity is, by and large, not very good at dealing with anyone or anything that steps outside the accepted norm. Square peg in a square hole? Yes, thank you. Square peg in a round hole. not so much, no. It’s fertile ground on which to base a novel, and Continue Reading
How it should have ended: The 5 stages of watching a Young Adult movie
Young Adult movies are intense but hey so is being a young adult – well as much as I can remember of it anyway – so that all makes sense. But it can be equally as intense watching a YA film as an adult – OK it’s patently not Continue Reading
Funny animals: Zootopia posters parody 2015’s biggest films
My my my but the makers of Zootopia, a film about a world in which animals are the civilised ones and live in a unique city dividd by climate zone rather than races, are having some fun, OK a whole lotta fun, marketing their film. Granted they’ve used many Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Therefore I Am
SNAPSHOT “A mysterious encounter between a man who claims to be from the future and the man that he claims is his former self. A surreal psychological thriller about loss and regret. All set within the framework of a time travel story that loosely operates in accordance to the Continue Reading
Comic to TV then back again: One fan’s brilliant The Walking Dead art
I love our postmodern age where one creative moment begets another begs another until they all merge into one satisfying complimentary whole. It’s often a case of art imitating art imitating art – forget about life itself: who wants that? – to glorious, pop culture-glorifying effect. The latest person Continue Reading
How To Be Single ponders why love doesn’t come with a guide
SNAPSHOT There’s a right way to be single, a wrong way to be single, and then…there’s Alice. And Robin. Lucy. Meg. Tom. David. New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, be it a love connection, a hook-up, or something in the middle. And somewhere Continue Reading
Future Zeitgeist: 3 pop culture resolutions for 2016
Another new year! Thousands of new movies to watch. Hundreds of TV shows to watch. Billions of books to read (wait, is that only me?). And an insane amount of music waiting to be downloaded and listened to over the next 366 days. So what to prioritise? What to Continue Reading
Movie review: The Good Dinosaur
Being the curious creatures that we are, humanity has always loved a good “What if?” scenario. It has fuelled the ragingly successful genre of alternate history, one that Pixar has now joined with gusto and its trademark insight into the “human” condition and emotional nuance. Far from being the Continue Reading