With just over a month to go till The Walking Dead shuffles back a-wailin’ and a-moanin’ onto our screens, we are being given a steady stream of what-ifs and maybe and could this character actually die predictions from all over the interweb. While only showrunner Scott M. Gimple, series Continue Reading
Book review: The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg
Would you want to spend an extended amount of time with a morbidly obese daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants from the Chicago suburbs by the name of Edie Middlestein who started eating in childhood to soothe all her existential aches and pains and found herself unable to stop? Or Continue Reading
Movie review: The Hobbit The Desolation of Smaug
There is something akin to high ritual to entering the cinema to see another in Peter Jackson’s sumptuously-realised visions of Tolkien’s Middle Earth. You must suitably prepare yourself for another epically-long journey into the wilds of the lands of the dwarves, the elves, the orcs and of course Gandalf Continue Reading
Movie review: Frozen
It is a rare thing indeed to walk away from any movie feeling utterly besotted and charmed, but Frozen manages this act of animated seduction with aplomb, using a winning combination of an engaging storyline with consequences, heartfelt and funny characters, and songs that fairly demand the movie be Continue Reading