One of the enduring strengths of the Gilmore Girls is that throughout its seven season run it deftly combined a winning sense of quirkiness with real emotional resonance. Sure much of Lorelai’s (Lauren Graham) dialogue was peppered with witticism, quips and an almost inexhaustible supply of pop culture touch points, but Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Les Spectateurs examines futuristic regret
No matter how glittering the dream or exciting the prospect, there comes a time when we must confront the loss of everything that we are leaving behind. This might not amount to much of an emotional wrench at all – we’re glad to be done with that period in Continue Reading
Movie review: Life, Animated
It was the poet John Donne who sagely and insightfully noted that “No man is an island entire of itself”, a nod to humanity’s shared, almost primal need for connection with others and the shared sense of meaning that results. There is no doubt he would see a thematic Continue Reading