There is no doubt that Netflix’s watercooler hit, Orange is the New Black, is seriously good, gripping drama and worthy of all the critical praise and fan-lovin’ that has come its way. But what if, wondered YouTube user Robert Jones, instead of being a searingly good portrait of life Continue Reading
The Big Bang Theory returns with S8! (See what happens behind the scenes)
The Big Bang Theory is back! After three humour-less Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Amy Farrah-Fowler (Mayim Bialik) free months, weeks and weeks where Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Penny (Kaley Cuoco) weren’t staring dreamily into each other’s eyes, and nanoseconds without number without Howard (Simon Helberg), Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) and Raj Continue Reading
Movie review: Wish I Was Here
Life can be a tough thing to get right. It’s shockingly shorter than we imagined it to be, far more complex and demanding and our attempts to make the most of it come with a raft of unintended consequences which often bear little or no resemblance to the way we thought Continue Reading
Neil Patrick Harris is going to let you Choose Your Own Autobiography (book trailer)
It’s looking like quite the year for informative, creative, fun books from celebrities. Not only do we have books from Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation) and Lena Dunham (Girls) to look forward to but now Neil Patrick Harris aka NPH himself has unveiled his own lifelong retrospective, Choose Your Continue Reading
Why LPs and books aren’t dead as a Dodo just yet
On April 19 this year, as on the third Saturday of every April since 2008, a strange thing happened outside record stores around the world. People lined up, often overnight and around the block, to buy vinyl records. Yes, vinyl records, which by the clearly incorrect reckoning of most of us had Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The adorable MacGuffin-inspired art of LA artist 100% Soft
I love the artwork of LA-based artist 100% Soft. One look at the adorable baby-like characters that populate his work and you know which immensely talented person is responsible for them. He is one of those unique artists who not only has a distinctive style that is all his Continue Reading
Now this is music: What if Shakespeare wrote pop songs?
Think about this. What if Shakespeare had miraculously appeared smack bang in the middle of the modern day pop landscape and begun composing songs for the likes of Lorde, Carly Rae Jepsen, Beyonce Knowles, Icona Pop or even Idina Menzel? Or zipped back – or forward but not as far Continue Reading
A long time ago in a cookies and milky way galaxy far, far away: Cookie Monster stars in Star Wars parody “Star S’mores”
SNAPSHOT A long time ago in a cookies and milky way galaxy far, far away…Princess Parfaita was taken prisoner by the evil Galactic Empire and had to be saved by a group of unlikely heroes including the young Luke Piewalker, Flan Solo, and Chewie the Cookie. One of the Continue Reading
First impressions: Z Nation (S1, E1 “Puppies and Kittens”)
Ladies and gentlemen, it is my dispiriting task to inform you that we have now reached Peak Zombie. Yes, much like Peak Oil, where all the oil that can be found, has been found and it’s only downhill from here, zombies have finally reach the summit of pop culture Continue Reading
Book review: The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
It becomes obvious, almost from the first pages of The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden, where we meet the savvy though often misjudged Soweto latrine emptier Nombeko Mayeki, that Jonas Jonasson (The 100 Year Old Who Climbed out of the Window and Disappeared) is a talented heir apparent to Continue Reading