In an episode of Doctor Who Confidential, Russell T Davies praised Hugh Grant's Doctor as "fleetingly" one of the best performances in the part of the Doctor. In 2021, after Chris Chibnall had featured the "Morbius Doctors" in The Timeless Children, Steven Moffat remarked that he should ema...
In fine, the 40% strength is part of the problem, and it’s it’s too thin, too wispy, too fleetingly easy. I suppose it can be classed as a soft evening sipper but even within that quiet profile there’s too little going on, and I remember liking the 2010 edition much more –bu...
I had no idea if such things were important to him anymore, but I had felt moved to respond on that day, I suppose to let him know that this splinter of his interests was still a valuable thing. He
As Saint John says, ‘God is greater than our conscience, even if our own conscience accuses us, even if we have a repetitive thought that’s really harming us, God is greater.’ That thought, however correct it may seem, however sensible, doesn’t have to be real. “[So we turn fr...
Or that Shermer High is the same high school seen in the movie Hughes would release the following year: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Or that “Don’t You Forget About Me”, the Simple Minds song that opens and closes Club wasn’t a song they wrote or even wanted to record until forced...
After those wonderful three minutes, the song goes quietly to its end and the only remark I would make is that the finale should have been of an extra level : more generous, more pompous, more ... ? Four stars.
This collectively shared experience, that we are alive right now and that this is our time to live, gives me joy. This might seem simplistic, but for me, dwelling on this fact opens the door to find joy in other aspects of life. It helps me to engage with, and be aware of, both ...
What’s more, we feel it too. Yáñez Cossío and Gladhart’s writing is so precise and vivid that, within a handful of sentences, we are taken into the deepest concerns and emotions of figures who often appear only fleetingly in the narrative. The death of the new magistrate at the ha...
“The night sweats, the way he would just snap, become someone else. I mean I could tell you stories that would make your hair stand up.” Eventually, she opens up about some of her most traumatic memories, and they are, indeed, horrific. There was, for instance, the time when Paul...
The presentation of the Nativity is strange, that way. On the one hand, Jesus was born among the animals… the nondescript secret soldier, slipping under Satan’s eye by His humble beginning. On the other hand, the magi knew to travel the world to find him, and (as Handel’sMessiahput...