Rebecca in Print

Sofia Coppola’s 2006 film Marie Antoinette has always divided audiences. Some people see it as a beautiful but shallow fashion show set to indie music. Others see it as one of the most human portrayals of Marie Antoinette ever put on screen. After revisiting the film, I found myself asking a different question: just how much of it actually happened? The answer surprised me. While Coppola takes…

Remember when Buffy basically gaslit us that Buffy had always had a sister? With no explanations. For weeks. There are TV plot twists. There are shocking reveals. And then there is whatever the hell Buffy the Vampire Slayer did when Dawn suddenly appeared. Because if you watched Buffy when it originally aired — properly aired, one episode at a time, with no instant Wikipedia explanation and…

There’s something strange about rewatching The Bicentennial Man as an adult in 2026. As children, many of us saw it as a sad but beautiful Robin Williams film about a robot who wanted to become human. It sat somewhere between fairy tale and science fiction. Emotional, thoughtful, slightly odd. The kind of film you remembered more for its feeling than its plot. But watching it now feels…

If you’re in the self-publishing space, you’ve probably come across Draft2Digital at some point. For a long time, it felt like one of the better options out there, especially if you didn’t want to rely entirely on Amazon. And to be clear, this isn’t a post about Draft2Digital being a “bad” platform. It’s about why I left. Because for me, it wasn’t really about the fee they introduced—it was…

At some point in the late 90s and early 2000s, Hollywood quietly decided that the best way to make Shakespeare appealing… was to pretend it wasn’t Shakespeare at all. And honestly? It worked. You had teens watching The Taming of the Shrew without realising it. People quoting Emma through Clueless. Entire generations absorbing classic literature through high school drama, rom-coms, and beachy…

So… I want to move. Again. I think my husband secretly dreads me getting this feeling every few years and for some reason, it always comes after we have just spent a huge chunk of money on upgrading a part of the house we currently live in. Oops. In our previous house we paid to have the entire back garden renovated and then immediately moved. In this house we have renovated the entire front…

In all of the Y2K trends, there is something slightly amiss… everything looks too clean. If you lived through the 2000s you may remember the muddy makeup, the smelly ballet flats, the cheap synthetic clothing that never dried properly and mysteriously smelt damp all the time. So why was the first half of the 2000s so smelly? Because it wasn’t just in our heads. The Era of “Product Overload”…

Remember watching a movie that had ten explosions per scene, cool automobiles and at least one hero scene where the star of the movie emerges from a wall of fire? Yep, that was the Michael Bay era. It was the time when a Michael Bay film didn’t just release — it arrived like an event. His name alone told audiences exactly what they were about to experience: huge explosions, glossy visuals,…

For those who attend theatre, stay up to date on the news or just follow some of the cast of Legally Blonde: The Musical on social media, you may have heard of some strange happenings recently. Maybe — like me — you have even been…lucky (?) enough to attend the show itself and witnessed it firsthand. At some point in the run, the production seems have to become plagued with an illness that had…