Spoor review: too far from paradise
A provocative crime story with a significant environmental message, the movie Spoor is based on a novel by 2018 Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, Olga Tokarczuk. A classic crime story centres on...
Category: Arts & Literature
The Man in the High Castle: fiction for contemporary reflection
We tend to believe that populations are capable of understanding the causes of the history we live through. However, history has been repeated in various scenarios, demonstrating that minority...
CATS review: “a bonkers, terrifying, glorious masterpiece”
Last week I went to see Cats, the movie. I fully expected to hate it, having forgotten the wonder the nerdy, musicals-obsessed 13 year old I once was felt years ago in the Bradford Alhambra. In fact,...
The best television surprises of 2019
So much television is produced nowadays it’s impossible to keep track of everything that comes out. Between the usual network and cable content and the ten thousand or so streaming services that...
’Tis the Season: some docu-series suggestions for holiday binging
With the frantic holiday season in full swing - not to mention a US presidential impeachment, a countdown to Brexit, and the end of liberal democracy as we know it (or so sayeth Twitter) - the final...
Death Stranding And The Surrender To Loneliness
Death Stranding is a video game about a mailman in a post-apocalyptic and broken America where life and death are now one and the same. Sam Porter uses a baby in a bottle to navigate ghosts and...
Joker film: worth the hype but ultimately falls short
With ticket prices and streaming being what they are these days, long gone are the times when I would drop into the theaters just to see something—anything—out of sheer curiosity. Movies have...
Controversies and misconceptions about men in ballet
Gender stereotypes are becoming archaic these days. Despite this, many people need to raise their voices to face the teasing that can stereotypes about their hobbies or work sectors can generate....
“No One Saw a Thing” on SundanceTV
Avi Belkin, the director and executive producer behind SundanceTV’s (currently streaming) true crime series No One Saw a Thing, has described his six-part look at a nearly four-decade-old cold...
Neon Genesis Evangelion Isn’t A Very Good Show, But It Captures Depression Like Nothing Else
I’ll just start out by saying I don’t think Neon Genesis Evangelion is a particularly good show overall. It’s a legendary series, and it deserves most of the credit it gets since its...