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Named after Ludwig van Beethoven, VAN is an online classical music magazine, reporting with passion and deep knowledge on a vibrant global scene. VAN Magazine — Discover

“What future race of ant people or anemones will dust you off and wonder what you are? You have to discard the question. You shouldn’t think too hard about the audience. Do your finest work for the sake of the art itself.” How to Become a Fossil — Discover

On masculinity, grief, and learning from suffering. What I Want to Know of Kindness — Longreads

It’s not that I don’t want to talk to you. It’s an issue of scarcity. I have run into a shortage of words. When the phone rings now, there’s nothing but a chirping repetition in my mind. A mimicry of the noise I should be making when I am, instead, entirely composed of silence. My […]… Continue reading early winter — rarasaur

Director: Pete Docter Screenplay by: Pete Docter, Meg LeFauve & Josh Cooley (from an original story by Pete Docter & Ronnie del Carmen) Starring: Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Richard Kind, Lewis Black, Bill Hader, Mindy Kaling, Kaitlyn Dias, Diane Lane & Kyle MacLachlan. Runtime: 91 minutes Inside Out (2015) — Through The 4th Wall

Dean-a-ling-a-ling! The Greendale gang returns! First airing waaay back in 2009, Community slowly built up a cult following over it’s run, and has in time, thanks to the likes of Netflix and Channel 4, slowly crept into the public consciousness over the last few years, particularly on an international level. It was a tumultuous run […]… Continue reading The Top Ten Episodes of Community — Niall Corish’s Words Without Wisdom.

The term ‘New Labour’ was first coined in 1994 by Tony Blair in a Labour Party Conference. It was aimed to “appeal to all social classes, but above all it tried to capture new, young, white-collar middle class voters from Thatcher.” (Goldsmith, 2020) They felt that after the period of Thatcherism as a society we […]… Continue reading How did New Labour ideology affect British filmmaking during the ’90s and naughties? — 914175: Screening Europe

Are we owed an explanation for the docuseries’s silences? And can we find meaning and value in our experience of The Last Dance even if those explanations never come? Considering The Last Dance: Its Achievements, Its Enigmas, and Its Frustrations — Take the Field Podcast

(Make sure to go unto YouTube and give this video a like, leave a comment and subscribe to Andy’s channel) The Marvel Cinematic Universe, The MCU, is home to the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy and trademark cameos by Marvel Comic Co-founder Stan Lee. The MCU is produced by Marvel Studios, now under […]… Continue reading The Marvel Cinematic Universe and Its Impact on Cinema —

Director Lynn Shelton died on Saturday and it hit home for me, for a lot of reasons. First: I liked her movies, and reviewed two of them on this blog: Sword of Trust and Outside In. They were mellow, lived-in, gentle, kind, and deeply humane. Her characters felt real and her stories always had an… Continue reading R.I.P. Lynn Shelton — Thelma and Alice