Ah Halloween – what a frightfully funny time it is! Well actually no, it isn’t in general what with scary monsters, wandering zombies, haunted houses and so much candy it’s entirely possible your head will explode from the incredible sugar rush before you get home from trick or treating – Continue Reading
Halloween Pop Art: Fun and easy pop culture costumes for the big night
Halloween is a ridiculous amount of time. That is pretty much incontestable, what with all the dressing up, the partying, the candy … and the candy … oh did I mention the candy? But it can be kind of tough to come up with a cool, original one-of-a-kind idea Continue Reading
Big Hero 6’s short Feast for hungry eyes
Taking a leaf out of Pixar’s book, which has long featured warm, funny and engaging shorts ahead of their feature film releases, Disney has announced that its upcoming movie Big Hero 6 will be preceded by what looks a touching short film indeed, Feast. (To be fair, Disney has Continue Reading
Rip’d from the pages of my childhood: The lifelong joys of Little Golden Books
Little Golden Books, which launched in 1942 at a cost of just 25c per book, have been around my entire life. In my lifelong love of reading, of being endlessly imaginative, of writing my own stories and trying to get them published, these small, beautifully drawn and exquisitely well-written books have Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Four Walls and a Roof” (S5, E3 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD* “We need each other, we can get through all of this together.” This impassioned quote from Glenn (Steven Yeun), who found himself not once but twice playing the in-the-nick-of-time intercessor between Abraham (Michael Cudlitz), who is aggressively OCD when it comes to getting to good old Washington Continue Reading
The Comeback is coming back!
It was Norma Desmond in Sunset Blvd, who famously remarked “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small” as stinging retort to Joe Gillis’ observation that she wasn’t quite as famous as she used to be. It’s a sentiment that Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow) would likely embrace with Continue Reading
Everything old is new again: Wonder Woman, Lost in Space, and Big return
Karma. What goes around, comes around. Everything old is new again. Even though their intent may differ, one eternal idea underlies all of these words or phrases – the idea that if you wait around long enough, and in today’s hyper-fast recycling world, that isn’t too long at all Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Sleepy Hollow expands its unique universe with new comic book series
Sleepy Hollow (Fox)is an utterly unique show. A one-of-a-kind blend of Biblical and occult mythology, historical intrigue, good old police procedural and what EW rightly calls a “fish out of water comedy”, it has a fashioned for itself a narrative world so unusually detailed, comprehensively explored and richly told that it Continue Reading
Air New Zealand presents The Hobbit cast in The Most Epic Safety Video Ever Made
Let’s be honest – airline safety videos are usually pretty dull, boring affairs, their level of watchability sitting somewhere between a video manual on concreting your own garden gnomes and a travelogue made by boring people of watching paint dry. Most of us either ignore or watch them just Continue Reading
Goodbye Miranda #suchNOTfun
Bonjour peepsickles! “What have you done today to make you feel proud?” Lifted from Heather Small’s song “Proud” (2000) and oft-quoted (or sung, really) in Miranda Hart’s hilarious sitcom Miranda by her best friend Stevie (Sarah Hadland), it’s a phrase used by the two best friends to inspire them Continue Reading