It doesn’t take long to realise that The Diary of a Teenage Girl, written and directed with a playful yet dark intensity by Marielle Heller, is not your typical quirky indie teenage drama. Granted, the 1976-set film, based on the book The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Continue Reading
Call me! A whole lot of movie phone calls in one glorious mash-up
Phone calls – we either love ’em or hate ’em. Waiting for a good friend to confirm the details of your all expenses paid, big birthday dinner at the best restaurant in town? LOVE ‘EM. Boss calling at 11.24pm to check why you use a comma instead of a dash Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Cobalt” (S1, E5 review)
* SPOILERS … AND AN ARENA OF ANXIOUS-TO-GET-OUT WALKERS AWAIT * Ah humanity, when the chips are down, you either cover yourself in glory, self-sacrificially stepping forward to make lives better for others in times horrifically extraordinary, or you look out for number 1, making sure you’re OK Continue Reading
Life always surprises you: The Good Dinosaur (international trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT The Good Dinosaur asks the question: What if the asteroid that forever changed life on Earth missed the planet completely and giant dinosaurs never became extinct? In this epic journey into the world of dinosaurs, an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. While traveling through a Continue Reading
Book review: You’re Never Weird On the Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day
If there’s one thing you discover pretty quickly in life, it’s that acting like everyone else generally gets you more approval than doing your own highly-idiosyncratic thing. It doesn’t matter whether you’re at school, or in a church, soccer club or bee fancier society, people like their fellow human beings Continue Reading
Still Please Like Me: Season 3 trailer reminds us Josh is still trying to figure things out
SNAPSHOT of seasons 1 & 2 Season one saw Josh come to terms with the multiple changes in his life (his girlfriend had dumped him, he’d gained and lost a boyfriend, come out to his parents, lost his eccentric great aunt, and moved back in to live with his Continue Reading
Movie review: Grandma
“Time passes. That’s for sure.” (Eileen Myles) Elle Reid (Lily Tomlin) is not having a good day. With her past coming up to meet her, as it always does, to remind her things aren’t as good as they once were, and her present taking the turn for the unexpected Continue Reading
Torchwood lives on: first series of audio adventures is out with more to come
The world is a dark place my friend and no one knew that better than the tortured souls of Torchwood, hidden beneath Cardiff and fighting aliens with thoroughly disagreeable motives at every turn. A spinoff of sorts from the 2005 revival of Doctor Who – the name is,of course, an Continue Reading
Let your inner Charlie Brown walk free: Promo web app “Peanutize Me” turns you into a Peanuts character
Who hasn’t read Charles Schulz masterfully-written, warmly-engaging and cleverly-insightful comic strip Peanuts and wished they could somehow step into its ink-defined panels? Have you ever wanted to lean on Schroeder’s piano, like Lucy does, and ponder the meaning of life, the universe and as much of everything as a Continue Reading
A perfectly funny show just got better: Bill Hader joins Brooklyn Nine-Nine
One of the most enjoyable ensemble sitcoms to come along in some years has been the Andy Samberg-starring Brooklyn Nine-Nine, set in the eponymous police precinct in Brooklyn, New York. What’s set it apart from the slew of half-baked sitcoms that come and go each season, and even some of Continue Reading