It’s always pretty disappointing to hear something from someone you thought was a friend that seems to betray that notion. It can also be severely troubling to just discover something about a friend that you weren’t supposed to know. How do you deal with that? What do you do? Are the dynamics that defined the relationship up until now...
Have you ever overheard something that really just changed the game? Something you weren’t supposed to know, and now that you do you’re not sure what to do with it? Something that, maybe, you wish you hadn’t heard? It’s a tough position to be in. Or sometimes weird. Or sometimes just hilarious, or a combination of all...
It’s gotta be really tough being a parent. I’ve heard it compared before to watching your heart just walk around outside of your body. It’s no surprise, then, that sometimes the lines of privacy and protection get blurred, and sometimes the secrets revealed in those interactions don’t always land well, or result in a very...
It’s gotta be tough being a parent and finding the right balance between nurturing your child in the way they should go and staying hands off enough to give them their own life and independence. Where exactly does that line lie? I wouldn’t presume to say, not least of all because I’m not a parent. But it’s definitely still...
Barely into her 30’s, Taylor Swift has already had the kind of breadth of career that most artists – even most stars – can only dream about accomplishing over the course of their entire lives. Since 2006 she’s released nine full studio albums, starred in several films , and has generally sold out stadiums all over the world...
There’s a movie from my childhood that absolutely traumatized me to the point that I legitimately cannot even hear the soundtrack without freaking out. You might imagine I’m talking about some slasher I was too young to see, or even something kid-friendly but a little too twisted, like Labyrinth. But no. I’m talking about The Fox...
You know you have a very special connection with a friend when you don’t talk for months or even years but then the moment you reconnect it’s like nothing has changed in the least. Those are super cool “clicking” moments, when you realize that even though the two of you have grown and changed, it’s happened in such a...
According to Wikipedia, “butterflies in the stomach” is a physical phenomenon which can be summarized thusly: “The physical sensation in humans of a ‘fluttery’ feeling in the stomach, caused by a reduction of blood flow to the organ. This is as a result of the release of adrenaline in the fight-or-flight response,...
There are plenty of reasons people get together and at least as many reasons they split up. But what happens when you find someone who checks lots of boxes in the former category and one big box in the latter? What’s your “deal breaker?” What opinion or behaviour would stop you being romantically interested in someone even if...
If you want your movie to be successful, the first thing you want to do is make sure it’s, yanno, good. But if it’s not good, then you should at least check to see that you’re marketing it well. Decent marketing means luring someone into a film, and that includes giving them a taste for what the story is all about. You...