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Photo by Raymond Yeung via Unsplash Teenagers of today exist within a technological autocracy - they are governed by their online existence and forget to literally touch grass. I think there has been a huge cultural shift in the Gen Z stratosphere which has made children (and yes, I do mean children) grow up too fast. Everyone from the ages of 10 to 18 wants to be an adult. This desire to exist outside their childhood has impacted vital childhood experiences. I worry about th

Nostalgia is a deeply human experience. But what happens when we romanticise the past to the point of reinventing it? In the film A Pale View of Hills, Kei Ishikawa invites the audience into the quiet world of Etsuko, a Japanese woman in England, whose bandages begin to unwrap as her youngest daughter, Niki, a young writer, itches to investigate her mother’s uncovered past.

" BoJack Horseman in LEGO " by Ochre Jelly via Flickr (licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 ) One of my earliest memories as a child involves me sitting in front of our family TV, cereal bowl in hand, watching an episode of Little Einsteins . I remember patting along on my lap to get Rocket, the friendly spaceship, to launch, and hearing Vivaldi’s Morning Mood  orchestrated as the animated children on screen encouragingly asked me to identify the shapes in the scene. This was my f

Will romance survive the age of instant gratification?

I went to my first home today, it’s too far to walk and my mother would never take me,  she said it made her cry.  I think I wanted to cry about something like that.