I love Daniel Craig as James Bond because he is as suave and sophisticated as we’ve come to expect this most dapper of spies to always be, but he is always also ruggedly, mischievous with a self-deprecating wit that works a treat in these rather more self aware post Continue Reading
Music review: “The Spirit Indestructible” – Nelly Furtado
I threw The Spirit Indestructible onto my virtual iPod turntable with the sort of enthusiasm that can only be generated by a six year wait for a follow up to 2006’s chart-smashing Loose. (Yes Mi Plan, her Spanish-langauge album, arrived somewhere in the middle of that interminable wait but Continue Reading
“New Girl” season 2 promo
Everyone’s favourite New Girl, Jess, is back but it’s not just any same old same old. Shaking off the temptation to simply trot more of what worked so well – once the producers got over their mid debut season quality wobble and found their groove – the show is Continue Reading
Is it beginning to look a lot like a Sufjan Stevens Christmas?
Sufjan Stevens, who once declared he would record an album themed for each of the fifty states of the USA before deciding it was too ambitious a goal for even an artist of his prodigious talent, may, and it’s an italicised may with more hedged bets and caveats than Continue Reading
“Once Upon a Time” returns: first episode “Broken”
If you recall, devoted watchers of ABC’s breakout fantasy hit, Once Upon a Time ended season 1 with the surprise undoing of the curse that had transformed all the fairytale characters we know and love into denizens of our gritty every day world where, as the narration ominously intoned, Continue Reading
Music review: “The Truth About Love” – Pink
Pink is one ballsy in-your-face rock chick with enough sass and attitude to fuel several small cities. But she’s also warm, earthy, sweet, sentimental and unflinchingly honest in a way that few artists of her calibre are. And it’s the fusion of all those qualities that make her one of Continue Reading
Movie review: “On the Road”
The universal question that On the Road poses almost from the first frame is this – at what point does a damaged person’s need for self preservation become a narcissism so malignant it becomes poisonous to everyone around them? It is a question worth asking especially in a world Continue Reading
Anderson Cooper: Discusses coming out on TV
I love Anderson Cooper. Not simply because he is a fine dish of a man; but also because he’s a top notch reporter with the ability to get to the heart of a story, and a versatile enough journalist that he can even host his own day time chat Continue Reading
Fringe season 5: Teaser video
It’s been well touted that the final season of Fringe will largely take place in 2036, when the mysterious Observers, who have been present throughout the series, and share a predilection to play god, and do more than just look on benignly, are in control. Their rule is the Continue Reading
Sonic Bliss #14: My favourite songs of the week
Ah spring … or autumn/fall if you live in the top half of planet earth … and the torrent of music that washes over during the year becomes a flood of Noah-like proportions as we head into the festive shopping season. So you can expect way more Sonic Bliss Continue Reading