Life is full of surprises. Many are wonderful – unexpected birthday parties, fantastic new job offers, kind words from a total stranger or close friend just when you need it the most. But some are gut-wrenchingly life-changing, the kind that knock you to the ground so profoundly with rug-from-under-you fury Continue Reading
The journey to success is … Atypical (season 3 trailer)
SNAPSHOTAtypical is a coming-of-age story from the point-of-view of Sam, an 18-year-old on the autistic spectrum searching for love and independence. While Sam is on his funny and emotional journey of self-discovery, the rest of his family must grapple with change in their own lives while exploring the question: what does Continue Reading
Movie review: Hustlers
For a film that features of a lot of rock-driven montages and chutzpah on steroids from many of the main characters, Hustlers, written and directed by Lorene Scafaria, has a lot on its beautifully-articulated mind. Set in the world of “glamourous” stripping – it’s all bright lights, shiny costumes and Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The gorgeously quackery of The Silly Duck Wizard
SNAPSHOTIn an adorable stop motion animation by Terry Ibele and voiced by Davey Swatpaz, a round little wizard bemoans the fact that he only knows spells that turn everything around him into ducks. No matter what iteration he uttered, a yellow duckling appeared in its place. After the third spell, Continue Reading
Movie review: Zombieland – Double Tap
Evolution may seem like an unlikely companion to the apocalypse since what is there really left alive to evolve but if you stop and think about it, that pesky virus that got this entire nightmare of undead destruction shambling on its merry gothic path is going to stop doing its Continue Reading
The living and the dead: The emotional evocativeness of Light From Light
SNAPSHOTGifted with sometimes-prophetic dreams and a lifelong interest in the paranormal, Sheila (Marin Ireland) is asked to investigate a potential haunting at a Tennessee farmhouse. It’s there she meets Richard (Jim Gaffigan), a recent widower who believes his wife may still be with him. The investigation that ensues — which Continue Reading
Book review: It Sounded Better in My Head by Nina Kenwood
Transition points in life are never easy. Oh, we’d like to think they are, or at least will be, since as much as we dread all the change and disruption, we’re also usually quietly (or loudly) excited about the idea that something new and different could be coming down the Continue Reading
“I know what happens when you die … you becomes a ghost”: The shadowy explosive world of Underground 6
SNAPSHOTRyan Reynolds stars as a ghost… as in, someone who faked his own death, scrubbed his record, and now moves about as a phantom operative. What’s the best part about being a ghost? “The freedom”, Reynolds says in the trailer. The Deadpool actor, re-teaming with Deadpool screenwriters Rhett Reese and Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #17: FKA Twigs, BANKS, Oh Wonder, Charlie XCX, Snow Patrol
Take off your shoes. Sit a spell. Kick back and let your mind wander to things big and small. Or if you’re the five artists featured in this week’s post, ponder the many and varied ways life happens to us and how beautifully and profoundly they can be expressed. Whether Continue Reading
This place is so dead: Handy 3-minute summary of Zombieland (and things to know before Zombieland 2)
SNAPSHOTAfter a virus turns most people into zombies, the world’s surviving humans remain locked in an ongoing battle against the hungry undead. Four survivors — Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) and his cohorts Columbus (Jesse Eisenberg), Wichita (Emma Stone) and Little Rock (Abigail Breslin) — abide by a list of survival rules Continue Reading