“Alone in the house, though, we become less aware of it, like a persistent, dull headache. Deaf to the sound, until the still silence of ownership settles over us. Maybe we decide we will try to like the noise. Maybe we find comfort in it. Maybe an idea insists itself more easily than an action,” (Jemc 4). Continue reading
I recently saw the new CGI (not live action, as some sources have said) remake of Disney’s The Lion King and the animation was amazing. The movie itself didn’t stray from the original cartoon; for the most part it was a shot for shot remake of the cartoon. But it’s the animation that I can’t even being to wrap my head around. From the first trailer I saw of The Lion King I couldn’t believe that everything from the animals to the water had been digitally created. It all looked so real, at one point the villain Scar is eating a zebra and he has blood staining the fur along his jaw, all these little details that make it hard to comprehend that the animals your watching aren’t real. At times it felt like I might have been watching a nature documentary, had there not been any singing lions of course. Continue reading
“I see the ad early in the day, when I’m taking a coffee break between servicing the Skee-Ball lanes. A Frankie’s Funhouse eighty kilometres out of Chicago is converting a Nifty Trio Set to Digital One. They’ve got an old Franny Feathers, my daughter Starr’s favourite character, in Urban Cowgirl costume, as is…I email them right away, asking price,” (Tacon 7). Continue reading
Last week the trailer for Cats the musical was released on Youtube and brought quite a lot of horrifying reactions with it. The decision to make the actors look more realistically like cats with CGI technology is a weird and terrifying one considering they could have easily gone with the tights and make-up that regular productions use, but hey its 2019, bring on the CGI nightmare. Cats the musical has been getting a lot of attention and it just makes me so incredibly happy and excited for the movie because Cats is the musical that got me obsessed with musical theatre and it was also one of the things I was most obsessed with in high school*. Continue reading
As a young girl Kira was found alone and dying in the woods by Cady Bennett and was adopted into her family and brought into the family business of Search and Rescue. Living with Cady, her adoptive brother Jude, and a handful of search and rescue dogs Kira now in her late teens has adjusted to human society but still has moments of ferality. When a little girl goes missing in a National Park and Cady’s estranged father asks for her help, Cady brings Kira and Jude to help but the job causes Kira to start remembering things about her past. Have the Bennett’s been keeping secrets from Kira? And will that little girl ever be found? Continue reading
Orphan Black was one of my favourite shows on television. Running from 2013-2017 it was a Canadian show about a young woman named Sarah Manning who discovers she is one of over two hundred clones. The show follows Sarah learning and meeting the other clones (later referred to as sisters) as she and her sisters investigate the scientists and organization that created them and fight for their autonomy. Continue reading
I don’t remember exactly where I heard it except that it was on T.V.. Two characters were shopping on whatever show I was watching and one character said to the other “get the black one, black is slimming.” I was maybe ten or twelve when I saw this and it was when I started becoming more aware of my body, of how others saw it and how I started to see it because of them. My classmates used to make fun of what I looked like running and I started to notice the rolls of flesh on my stomach, tried sucking it in to look thinner. But I remember when I heard that line on T.V. I was amazed that all I had to do was wear black clothes to at least look thinner; to at least look what I thought might be pretty. Continue reading
Kelley Armstrong is one of my favourite Canadian authors. I’m constantly amazed at her range of work as well as how many books and genres she has written across in her career. I especially love how with the Rockton series she sets it in the Yukon because the Territories are so beautiful and often forgotten even among Canadians. That being said, the fourth book in the Rockton series was definitely my least favourite. Continue reading
The first episode of What Girls Do Podcast is here and in honour of Stranger Things season 3 I talk about a character who will never be forgotten, the one and only Barb Holland! Continue reading
Well there was a time where I would post one of these every couple of months because I couldn’t think of anything to write about, so I’m at least happy that I’ve found other topics to keep this blog more interesting than the boring things I’ve been up to. But alas, I couldn’t think of what to write today, so here’s what I did last week! Continue reading
Sarah O'Connor 