Guilty Pleasures, and Enjoying Them Without Guilt

Sydney White, Curious George, and Dark Shadows. These are all films that I hugely enjoy and that have also received average to poor reviews, apparently making them some of my ‘guilty pleasures’. I honestly can’t say I’ve ever felt particularly guilty watching them. Guilty pleasures of all kinds are defined on the finest wealth of information on the internet (Urban Dictionary) as ‘something that you shouldn’t like, … Continue reading Guilty Pleasures, and Enjoying Them Without Guilt

Love, Simon Review – Charming, Desperately Needed Normalcy (Rating: 9/10)

It seems as though Love, Simon should have been released years ago, yet here we are. An LGBT friend recently vented to me about how he feels shortchanged by films predominantly about gay characters ‘always ending with someone dying of AIDS’, and he is clearly not alone. Whilst the AIDS crisis is a hugely important topic to cinematically investigate, it has reached the point for many … Continue reading Love, Simon Review – Charming, Desperately Needed Normalcy (Rating: 9/10)