The Doctor is back, or forward, or he never really never left at all – you know how time travel is – in the full length Doctor Who trailer just released at this year’s San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC). It’s full to bursting with slivers of action and characters we have Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Scooby Doo and the gang dress up down through the decades
Ever since I clasped eyes on the Scooby Doo Where Are You mysteries in the ’70s, I have been firmly of the opinion that there is a timeless quality to the cartoons. Even now I can happily sit down and watch Scooby, Shaggy, Fred, Velma and Daphne do their Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Find Your Warrior” (S5, E1 review)
Be warned aliens of the universe! (And those very annoyingly still on Earth; yes that means you Espheni, half-hearted Volm and whoever the hell you new guys are.) Tom Mason (Noah Wylie) is mad. Very, very mad. So mad in fact that at the encouraging hand of the mysterious new Continue Reading
The hilariously heartwarming perils of Sleeping With Other People (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT Can two serial cheaters get a second chance at love? After a one-night stand in college, New Yorkers Lainey (Alison Brie) and Jake (Jason Sudeikis) meet by chance twelve years later and discover they each have the same problem: because of their monogamy-challenged ways, neither can maintain a Continue Reading
Book feature: Zombie McCrombie From an Overturned Kombi (picture book)
There’s a well-established pattern in movies especially, but also TV shows and books, that while humans may perish and drop like flies, dogs will soldier on unaffected. It’s not always the case of course – for every Boomer (Independence Day), there’s – SPOILER! – often a Samantha (I am Continue Reading
Film review: Minions
Which supporting player, looking on enviously as the star of the show receives all the applause, accolades and kudos, hasn’t wondered when they will get their, naturally well-deserved, moment to shine? While it’s hard to know definitively if the Minions, the banana-loving sidekicks to reformed villain Gru in the Continue Reading
“Now let’s get out of here and destroy the whole universe!” Rick and Morty return for a second crazy fun season
SNAPSHOT Rick Sanchez (Justin Roiland) is still living with his daughter Beth’s (Sarah Chalke) family and causing more trouble than ever. This season the rest of the family, his son-in-law Jerry (Chris Parnell), grand-daughter Summer (Spencer Grammer) and grand-son Morty (Roiland) are dragged into Rick’s intergalactic adventures, as he Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Poster Posse’s imaginative take on Inside Out
Inside Out, Pixar’s latest transcendent animation triumph, takes us, in the most gloriously poignant and colourful way possible, into the mind of an 11 year old girl named Riley, who is struggling to cope with some pretty major changes in her hitherto untroubled young life, precipitated by her family’s move from Continue Reading
Movie review: Terminator Genisys
Movie franchises have a curiously complicated relationship with the moviegoing public. While there is an almost universal desire to see new instalments as quickly as the slow-moving development behemoth of Hollywood will allow – the near religious mania over the upcoming new instalment in the Star Wars saga is evidence of this Continue Reading
Bibliophilia: Wes Anderson’s wonderful world of cinematic books
You only have to see one Wes Anderson film to know how literate his filmmaking style is and to realise how much his obvious love of literature influences pretty much every scene that makes it onto the screen. Here is a man not only in possession of some wondrously Continue Reading