*SPOILERS AHEAD (and walkers … and an emotional catharsis …redemption … and more walkers)* “When my girls were born, that’s when I figured out what it was to be a man. You know, a real man. You protect ’em, keep ’em safe, you just try to make them stronger Continue Reading
A marvelous massing of movie trailers #6: Noah, Maleficent, Some Velvet Morning, Stalingrad, Charlie Countryman
It’s full speed ahead in cinema-land right now with a tsunami of amazing movies coming our way thanks to the studios’ desperate need to get as many movies out before the end of the year so they qualify for the awards season in early 2014. With all those amazing Continue Reading
Doctor Who turns 50: Night of the Doctor webisode
It’s hard to know how to react when you hear that one of the defining TV shows of your childhood/youth is being brought to life after a reasonably lengthy period out of production. Part of you sings with the angels, thrilled that you’ll be able to see characters you Continue Reading
Parks and Recreation’s Nick Offerman’s mo’ is the star of a Flashdance-soundtracked show
Proving once again that he is not just a ruggedly handsome face, although he is that and more, Nick Offerman has joined up with mademan.com to record a Public Service Announcement for Movember, a month long celebration of all things upper lip hirsute to raise funds in support of Continue Reading
Picture this Community fans: Season 5 photos aplenty
Much like Bigfoot, alien abductions and the idea of substantial news coverage from a commercial network that doesn’t include diet tips or reports on insurance scams, you might have begun to wonder if season 5 of Community actually existed, or would find a place in NBC’s schedule. Well wonder Continue Reading
Gather the children: What Does the Fox Say is going to be a kids book
Not content with their accidental novelty song “What Does the Fox Say?” clocking up 215 million views on YouTube, making it the biggest pop phenomenon on the planet since Psy’s über-popular “Gangnam Style”, and inspiring a host of affectionate parodies in the process such as the delightful one between Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art #9: Minimalist movie posters for Jaws, Star Wars, Superman, Pulp Fiction
You might have noticed that I have an inordinate fondness for people who take the accepted form of something and turn it, ever so slightly or with envelope-tearing joie de vivre, on its head. Such is the minimalist but exquisitely colourful work of Polish artist Michal Krasnopolski who I discovered Continue Reading
Book review: A Working Theory of Love by Scott Hutchins
While it is highly unlikely that early man, whose survival depended on an all-consuming hunt for food and shelter, and no doubt the occasional sprint from a sabre-tooth tiger, had time for existential ruminations, it’s a fair bet that shortly thereafter people began wondering what it truly meant to Continue Reading
Fetch me a TARDIS-shaped cake and lots of candles! Doctor Who turns 50
2013 is a big year if you’re a Whovian, a fan of the great Time Lord himself, Doctor Who, who marks 50 years on our TV screens on November 23, just over one short week away. Of course if you’re Doctor Who himself, a Gallyfreyan who’s over 900 years old Continue Reading
Rip’d from the pages of my childhood: The William stories by Richmal Crompton
It’s funny the kind of ideas that take root in you when you’re a child, all evidence to the contrary. I was convinced as a boy of 9 or 10 that Richmal Crompton was a man, that he lived in Singapore where he dreamt up wondrous stories for me Continue Reading