by amykitchen | Oct 14, 2026 | listen, read, watch
Nobody close to me has died recently. And yet, if you looked at what I’ve been watching, reading and listening to over the past year, you’d be forgiven for assuming otherwise. Sick matriarchs. Lost family houses. Dying protagonists. Families pulled apart by forces...
by amykitchen | Sep 9, 2026 | watch
Here is a list of what I am looking forward to this fall. A mixture of tv and film. Watching the stories of strong women persevere on screen is inspirational when the temperatures are dropping. Fortunately, it looks like we’re in for a good season. Ranging from...
by amykitchen | Sep 3, 2026 | watch
August has spent itself on sequels and action movies, all of them doing their best to squeeze out one last push before September clears the runway for TIFF and the parade of award contenders. Tony has arrived, unbothered by any of that, and it turned out to be the...
by amykitchen | Aug 9, 2026 | watch
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has been in theatres since July, and by now the cast list has done its rounds: Matt Damon as Odysseus, Tom Holland as his son Telemachus, Robert Pattinson is the villainous suitor Antinous. It is the kind of ensemble built for a...
by amykitchen | Aug 4, 2026 | watch
My grandma used to keep a stack of glossy interior magazines by the sofa, and half the appeal was never really the magazines themselves. It was the excuse to sit down together and flip through them, pointing at kitchens and patterns we liked, and ones we didn’t....
by amykitchen | Jul 20, 2026 | watch
While everyone else was packing into VIP recliners and IMAX screens this weekend to see The Odyssey, I went a different route: Olivia Wilde’s The Invite, flying below the radar of the big releases. It’s Wilde’s third film as director, after Booksmart...
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