I have to be honest – I am a horror movie wimp. Recoiling generally at the ideas of vampires, mummies, zombies – there are some notable exceptions of course such as The Walking Dead – I prefer to avoid any kind of movie that gives these characters any Continue Reading
Hi-yah! The Muppets leap back onto TV with all new star-studded promos
If you’re a Muppets fan, and of course you are, then your heart will no doubt have rung with a million joyous “Wocka Wockas!” when news broke that The Muppets, newly zeitgeist-resplendent after two very successful movies, were going back on TV. In primetime. In an The Office-style mockumentary Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Hair hair! Wear your favourite authors on your T-shirted chest
There’s something about finding a book we really love that’s made even more special when we discover, O happily prosaic day!, that we also love everything else that author has every written. And, of course, given that true devotion knows no bounds, will ever write. (OK that could be a Continue Reading
Don’t panic! Don’t panic! The Dad’s Army movie teaser poster + trailer is here
SNAPSHOT It is 1944 and World War II is reaching its climax. The Allies are poised to invade France and finally defeat the German army. But in Walmington-on-Sea morale amongst the Home Guard is low. Their new mission then – to patrol the Dover army base – is a Continue Reading
Now this is music #53: HANA, franskild, NEKOKAT, Alice on the Roof, Ben Browning
Life is full of all kinds of twists and turns, contradictory highs and lows, shades of light and darkest night. It can be a lot to take in and deal with sometimes but it helps when you have artists like the following five acts to help you out. All Continue Reading
Book review: A Robot in the Garden by Deborah Install
Like cat videos and the word “Like”, memes, the perfect joining together of picture and word, find their natural home on the internet. One in particular, “I Can’t Adult Today. Please Don’t Make me Adult”, is especially popular with grown-ups everywhere, an exquisite summation of the exhaustion that comes Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Respite” (S5, E6 review)
*SPOILERS AND OLD MACDONALD’S ESPHENI-FREE FARM AHEAD* There was an air of the Britney Spears about Falling Skies this week. And no, I don’t mean the entire 2nd Mass. dressed up in schoolgirl outfits and sashayed with pouts big enough to swallow an entire football team past rows Continue Reading
Small screen specials: My 5 favourite TV sitcom characters
I am pretty sure that someone somewhere, most likely my mother, or Big Bird, said with grave solemnity that you should never ever play favourites. Something to do with feelings getting hurt, people getting marginalised, and people starving over in Ethiopia (wait, no, that last one was for something Continue Reading
The Story of Kullervo: The epic J.R.R. Tolkien story that started it all finally gets published
SNAPSHOT Brought up in the homestead of the dark magician Untamo, who killed his father, kidnapped his mother, and who tries three times to kill him when still a boy, Kullervo is alone save for the love of his twin sister, Wanona, and guarded by the magical powers of Continue Reading
Rockin’ and a-rollin’ with Ricki and the Flash (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT Three-time Academy Award® winner Meryl Streep goes electric and takes on a whole new gig – a hard-rocking singer/guitarist – for Oscar®-winning director Jonathan Demme and Academy Award®-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody in the uplifting comedy Ricki and the Flash. In a film loaded with music and live performance, Continue Reading