In a play redolent with evocative lines, the one that has stayed with me, and sums up the melancholy of the whole story is “the unappeasable misery of the joyless”. It’s a line used by the central protagonist, Anton (Damian Sommerlad – young Anton / Peter Cousens – older Anton), Continue Reading
Sonic Bliss #2: My favourite songs of the week
Five more favourite songs already? Just a week after the first lot? Yes I say! Did you not pay attention to the last post? I am new music junkie, and with the vast eclectic range of artists I follow, it’s is frighteningly easy (in a very good way) to come Continue Reading
It’s a (monster) literary mash-up!
Jane Austen and zombies. Abraham Lincoln and vampires. Charlotte Bronte and vampires and zombies and werewolves. Even Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina is now an android. What is going on in the rarefied climes of literature? Who brought these creatures of the genre underbelly of pop culture to sup at the same Continue Reading
Golden age of TV anxiety
It’s often been said of late that we are in a new golden age of TV. According to the good folks at Wikipedia, the first golden age of TV was from the late 1940s to early 1960s when live dramas, many of them garnering both critical acclaim and solid viewer Continue Reading
Sonic Bliss #1: My favourite songs of the week
If you’ve even glanced at this blog in passing, it will have become fairly obvious fairly quickly that I love music. To an almost unhealthy I-should-go-to-rehab-or-get-shock-therapy-while-strapped-to-a-gurney-in-a-1950s-hospital degree, and even then I suspect it likely wouldn’t work. And frankly I wouldn’t want it too. Music is vital, wonderful and without a Continue Reading
Community is back!
After far too long a hiatus, Community jumps back on TV screens – well US TV screens anyway – next week and I am thrilled! (This fabulous promo for Community’s return was put together by Thedoboreel on Youtube and is beyond awesome) It is hands down of the most inventive, Continue Reading
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (book review)
I love books with quirky titles. They have become quite popular over the last few years ever since The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time became a hit in 2003. But a quirky title is only truly memorable if the novel is equally as creative and well-written, which Continue Reading
I didn’t think I would: watch zombies on TV
Well, strictly speaking I am not watching the zombies themselves. Just the show they’re in, thank you. Naturally in the sacred tradition of children everywhere when they are watching anything remotely scary on TV, the moment the actions moves from the surviving humans to the zombies, I either put my Continue Reading
Review: “The Vow”
The Vow is a story about love triumphing in the most dire of circumstances, and by all rights it should be deeply moving. Movies with that kind of theme always are right? Well, they should be. Taken at face value, The Vow hits the bills perfectly. It is a heart Continue Reading
Review: “My Weekend With Marilyn”
My Weekend With Marilyn, manages against the odds, to say something fresh about Marilyn Monroe, surely one of the most documented figures in modern pop culture. That in itself is an achievement. That it manages this, and is a warm, rich and engaging movie into the bargain, (something that eludes Continue Reading