I love Christmas and I LOVE decorating my tree. Given where my interests lie, it makes perfect sense that the tree is all pop culture and nothing but pop culture, and that even though I tell myself I’ll only buy a few new ornaments each year, that I often end Continue Reading
Book review: Holiday Romance by Catherine Walsh
Is there anything more wonderful than falling in love at Christmas? The twinkling of festive lights on the streets, trees decked in all manner of baubles and tinsely garb and the general sense of being in a luminously light place once-or-twice removed from the manic hubbub of everyday life – Continue Reading
Breaking fourth walls with glee: Thoughts on She-Hulk – Attorney at Law review (ep. 5-9)
Aiming to be meta and actually delivering on it in a way that doesn’t feel twee or force is a magical balancing act that few TV series pull off convincingly well. Breaking fourth walls and addressing the audience or melding the fictional with the semi-factual doesn’t always work, with narrative Continue Reading
The festive short and the short of it: Duck the Halls – a Mickey Mouse Christmas Special
SNAPSHOTInstead of going South with his family and other duck friends, Donald stays behind with Mickey and the rest of his non-bird/duck friends to spend his first ever Christmas. During his stay, however, Donald soon starts to get sick from the cold weather while trying to enjoy the snow and Continue Reading
How hard do you believe? Big questions roll from Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
SNAPSHOTA fifth movie in the Indiana Jones franchise, continuing the story after Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Starring Harrison Ford as adventurer Indiana Jones and Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Helena. The full cast also features Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Kretschmann, Boyd Holbrook, Shaunette Renée Wilson, Toby Jones, Continue Reading
It’s the Little Things … ABBA’s Björn Ulvaeus knits with Sir Ian McKellen again for Christmas
Ever since ABBA released Voyage, their first album in 39 years last year, and with it the daintily beautiful and highly emotive loveliness that is “Little Things”, Christmas has felt a whole lot more Swedishly festive than it used to do. That delightful feeling of ABBA in the heart of Continue Reading
Movie review: #Christmas with You
Who knew there was so much love in the offing at Christmas? Well, clearly lots of people because with the total of new Christmas films this years reaching a whopping 170, pretty much all of them rom-com oriented, it’s very clear that in the words of Love Actually‘s theme song, Continue Reading
It’s time to face the music: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 goes deep in new trailer
SNAPSHOTIt’s time to face the music. Still reeling from the loss of Gamora, Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) rallies his team to defend the universe and one of their own – a mission that could mean the end of the Guardians once and for all if it’s not successful. Marvel’s Guardians of the Continue Reading
#Christmas book review: Just Like Magic by Sarah Hogle
Christmas is supposed to be rose, cosy and oh-so-festively nice. Well, that’s the luminously lovely PR anyway; the truth is, it doesn’t always live to the pitch, no matter how hard we try and we arrive at the festive season feeling ill-prepared, all-at-sea and unsure if we have what it Continue Reading
Weekday character movie poster pop art (+ first full trailer): The Super Mario Bros. Movie
SNAPSHOTFrom Nintendo and Illumination comes a new animated film based on the world of Super Mario Bros. It is the third feature film adaptation of Nintendo’s Mario video game franchise, following the anime film Super Mario Bros.: The Great Mission to Rescue Princess Peach! (1986) and the Hollywood live-action film Continue Reading