With refreshing honesty, I May Destroy You managed to address consent, trauma and racism all in one. How has powerhouse Michael Coel pulled this off? Continue reading I May Destroy You: consent to break your heart
‘It’s not like this with other people’ they would say to each other after making love. When loving is a secret conspiracy, how far can they go? Continue reading Love as a conspiracy – a spoiler-review of Normal People
There’s an argument to watch cringe content. The inability to deal with the emotions elicited highlights how we deal with those feelings in every day life. Continue reading Why you should watch cringe and uncomfortable TV
Since starting work in a cinema, I have been watching a movie a day (keeping the boredom away). Some I walked out of (Jumanji 2), some I perversely enjoyed more than I thought (Cats), some broke my little heart into … Continue reading 1917: Why you should sit through this ‘one-shot’ WWI dystopian nightmare
For starters, I am working today. In a hospitality job no less, so people can not be avoided (not five guys but I liked the photo I took there after work). I made sure to get a job in time … Continue reading Taking Christmas off people (or a good idea with bad timing)
Show me someone not terrified of becoming their parents. The only way most people learn to cope with their childhoods is to vilify their parents, in a childlike ‘I-wasn’t-given-what-I-am-owed’ kind of way. Reparenting yourself often becomes a race against time … Continue reading We Are Both: Parenting and Apocalypse Now
