SNAPSHOT For ages I’ve been thinking about doing a video analyzing time travel in fiction and doing a comparison of different fictional time travels – some do use wormholes, some relativistic/faster than light travel with time dilation, some closed timelike curves, some have essentially “magic” or no consistent rules Continue Reading
Movie review: Wonder
Hollywood has a long and enduring love affair with social outliers. In countless films it has celebrated them as the outsiders, the others, who stand outside the banality and sameness of mainstream society and whether by design or unwanted but seized-upon circumstance, boldly forge their own path. The thing Continue Reading
“Here’s Johnny!” Watch iconic movie lines get animatedly reimagined
I love people with the capacity to take near-omnipresent things like iconic movie lines, which are bandied around like confetti at an environmentally-unfriendly weddings and make them into something wholly different, and most importantly, fun. Brighton, UK animator Nick Murray Willis has taken quotes from the likes of Lord Continue Reading
Goodbye Woody! Dive into this poignant supercut of Pixar film endings
I am always torn when it comes to endings. On the one hand, I love following the myriad twists and turns of a story, gathering up its various narrative loose ends, threads and ideas until I am in possession of (hopefully) a satisfying conclusion. But on the other hand, Continue Reading
First impressions: Travels With My Father
Even if you get along brilliantly well with your father, and I am thankful that I did while my dad was alive, the idea of travelling with them anywhere, let alone on a kid of replacement gap year, is fairly intimidating. After all, it’s one thing to share a Continue Reading
Ready to get scarily generous? Sesame Street’s Sharing things gets you in the mood
Oh Sesame Street, take me to the Snackside Down! I’m not usually a fan of scary horrific alternate realities but when they’re part of an alternate Sesame Street parody reality where Stranger Things, Netflix’s hit show where up is down and down is up and your laundry bill to Continue Reading
Now this is music #100: LANY, Novo Amor and Ed Tullett, Jacob Banks, RYD, Tom Ronsenthal
Our hearts and souls are often filled with so mnay emotions, it can sometimes (or often) feel like you’ll never be able to express them all. And if we do feel like the power to articulate them all lies within us, finding the words, especially when the emotions are Continue Reading
Zoinks! It’s Scooby-Doo and Batman: The Brave and the Bold
I’ll confess – I’ve always found Batman way too dour for my superhero tastes (which are, at best, limited anyway). I much prefer superheroes like Deadpool, Guardians of the Galaxy, Thor in Ragnarok mode and even Iron Man. But Batman? A little too dark and weighed down by his Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: How symbolism is used to represent its various houses
Any way you look at it, Game of Thrones is a clever, complex, multilayered show. Part of its appeal is that it invest meaning in every scene, every characters words and actions, with nothing left to chance. As the knowledgeable people at ScreenPrism beautifully explain, this extends to its use Continue Reading
Do the Dance of Joy! Perfect Stranger Things is here!
A sitcom staple in the late ’80s and early ’90s, Perfect Strangers was a delightful, if unchallenging, tale of two distant cousins, one American-born, another an immigrant, who have to overcome all kinds of cultural and other hurdles to arrive at something approaching domestic bliss. The humour was more Continue Reading