Sep 5, 2020 I recently watched a long awaited film on my bucket list. Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) had been described to me as a fashion revelation, an experience of sensory transcendence, musical genre collision triumph, and romance that could melt you like butter. Jacques Demy’s 1964 decadent musical romance exceeded… Read more

April 11th, 2020 The first time I felt blood red infatuation jolt through me was at the hands of Baz Luhrmann’s Red Curtain Trilogy masterpiece. A re-watch today of Moulin Rouge! (2001) took me back in time to happier and hungrier days, and reopens the visions of what I discovered desperation to feast upon the… Read more

March 10th, 2020 On the 8th of March every year, I am prompted to ponder the brilliance of women for weeks following the allotted celebratory day. In my mind I’ve always possessed a treasure trove of favoured performances that have moved me or stayed with me, without really knowing what sort of category to put… Read more

Feb 15th, 2020 Setting aside my poor conflicted heart striving to separate the art from the artist, I am a valiant fangirl for the work of Woody Allen. If the fanatic in me could have one wish, it would be merely to be a fly on the wall: watching dialogue start as the nucleus of… Read more