Is it possible to be adorable, wisecrackingly funny and heartfelt all at once? It is if you’re Pikachu and you are the titular star of your own film in which a great mystery is solved, tables are turned, and estranged connections re-established, all against some fairly-impressive worldbuilding. Pokémon Detective Pikachu, Continue Reading
#Eurovision cultural festival book review: One Night, Markovitch by Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
One of the fascinating things about life is how it can be intensely-intimate and majestically-epic all at once, and how these two extremes, as far apart as the poles of the earth, can be so closely related that one cannot exist without the other, nor keep themselves from influencing what Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2019: Week 7 – France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Spain, UK
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Weekend movie poster art: The old and new characters from Toy Story 4
SNAPSHOT Woody (voice of Tom Hanks) has always been confident about his place in the world, and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that’s Andy or Bonnie. So when Bonnie’s beloved new craft-project-turned-toy, Forky (voice of Tony Hale), declares himself as “trash” and not a toy, Continue Reading
#Eurovision cultural festival: 5 Israeli music artists you should be listening to
Israel is a country with a rich and diverse cultural life, and while some of that will be on display during Eurovision, there’s much of it that might pass you unless you’re paying attention. To ensure that doesn’t happen, I have checked our five brilliantly-good Israeli artists who are creating Continue Reading
Movie review: Crime Wave (Ola de crímenes)
Justice, court-mandated means of redress aside, is a fairly rare commodity. Everyone wants it, not that many people get it, and if they do, it’s far less satisfying or comprehensive than they expect. Which is why Crime Wave (Ola de crímenes), directed with gleeful vivacity by Gracia Querejeta, is such Continue Reading
Book review: The Quiet at the End of the World by Lauren James
For all the many and varied ways that humanity could slash its collective throat, the trip to the apocalypse almost always looks eerily the same. Some great cataclysmic event occurs, people die en masse (or rise up again), civilisation totters and falls, and the survivability of Homo Sapiens takes an Continue Reading
Did you start the MCU fire? Cast of Avengers: Endgame are adamant it wasn’t them!
Which came first – the Avengers or the mess they help clean up? Or, rather controversally, did they create the mess in the first place? It’s a classic chicken or the egg conundrum, and as Avengers: Endgame continues to rake in cash around the world – at last count, it Continue Reading
Living. Laughing. Limping. – Thoughts on Special
The world is not exactly a kind, forgiving place. That won’t comes as a newsflash to pretty much anyone, but what might come as an epiphany of sorts, especially if you’re the kind of person lacking in the kind of self-awareness necessary for any kind of truly-fulfilling life, is how Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The animated love of Mobile attraction
If you think back to when you really felt the first stirrings of attraction to someone, probably the first thing that springs to mind how desperately you wanted to be with them every single chance you got. It didn’t matter which obstacles stood in your path; you were going to Continue Reading