A stack of books
Posted in Book Reviews Personal Book & Film Blogs

Zena’s Favourite Books

This list may not be entirely accurate a year from now. It’s hard for me to acknowledge…

A woman looking at a giant image of another woman
Posted in Cinema Insights and Reviews

Film Review: Belle (2021)

This will contain spoilers! I saw the trailer for Belle a month or so ago and was…

Posted in Audiobooks Book Critiques & Analysis Book Reviews

When Men Write Witches: Circe

Circe, a lesser known goddess to the Greek pantheon, is a mythological retelling by Madeline Miller. There’s…

Posted in Cinema Insights and Reviews Oscars 2023

The Batman is Vengeance and Art

I have been trying to differentiate in my posts here, as well as in my personal life,…

A magnet in the shape of a heart
Posted in Book Reviews

Book Review: Attached, Amir Levine & Rachel Heller (2010)

This may be the first time I include a non-fiction. Attached isn’t a novel, but something in…

Posted in Cinema Insights and Reviews Rewatches & Rereads

Revisiting Ghost World (2001)

On my first watch of Ghost World back in 2001 I remember the music and the atmosphere…

Posted in Cinema Insights and Reviews Oscars 2022

Spencer is a Poignantly Lonely Trip into the Psychological

Entering the Film There are quite a few Oscar contenders I have yet to see from this…

Posted in Book Reviews

Where the Crawdads Sing is a Poetic Disappointment

⋆ Spoilers Ahead and Trigger Warning for Mentions of Sexual Assault and Neglect⋆ Pastoral Poetry and Nature…