SNAPSHOT The plot of the film is the kind of slightly revisionist history that makes the mind tingle with delight. In this world, based on the world of graphic novelist Jacques Tardi, everything changed when Napoleon Bonaparte was killed before he became a famous world leader. His demise started Continue Reading
Benny Hill meets The Walking Dead? Yes really … and it’s great fun
There’s a better than even chance that the first thing you think of when someone, say like me, says The Walking Dead, is not The Benny Hill Show. And fair enough too – one show is all about trying to avoid either becoming undead chow or grist for sociopathic Continue Reading
Movie review: The Lady in the Van
If you’ve ever been tempted to judge someone based on their appearance or current circumstance, The Lady in the Van is an instructive lesson on the pitfalls of such a judgement approach. Based on the true story of British playwright Alan Bennett’s (Alex Jennings) fractious friendship with van-dwelling homeless woman Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The deeply-moving bonds of Changing Batteries
What makes life truly worth living are the people who journey through it with us. Sure we might have interests we love to pursue, places we like to be, and TV programs we love to watch but when all is said and done, what makes all those things and Continue Reading
Not easy being green? Kermit and Stephen Colbert ponder life’s big questions
Why are we here? What makes us, us? and why didn’t we didn’t think of inventing the wheels that make puling along suitcases so much easier these days? All very good questions, and all pondered to one degree or another by Stephen Colbert and Kermit in an segment on The Continue Reading
Movie review: How To Be Single
Romantic comedies, in common with just about every genre of movie in existence, loves its tropes. As sure as a spectacularly reunion will follow a hackneyed misunderstanding, rom-coms, as they’re affectionately known (or not so affectionately depending on your point of view) regularly give us the lovelorn soul who Continue Reading
A Headful of (Driving) Dreams: Chris Martin (Coldplay) joins James Corden for Carpool Karaoke
James Corden is a thoroughly lovely, engaging guy. Which is a very good thing indeed since as the host of The Late, Late Show on CBS, which airs at 12.35am when many people are not at their most awake – the viewers, not the participants who tape the show Continue Reading
Movie review: Hail, Caesar! #StGeorgeOpenAir
Anyone who has seen Trumbo, the brilliantly-executed story of one wisecracking screenwriter’s attempt to defy the prohibitions of the McCarthyist era in America, will agree that there is precious little to laugh about when it comes to draconian moralising and coercive, chest-thumping patriotism on a nationwide scale. But that Continue Reading
Alice Through the Looking Glass: Time is ticking away (new trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT In Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass, an all-new spectacular adventure featuring the unforgettable characters from Lewis Carroll’s beloved stories, Alice returns to the whimsical world of Underland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter. Directed by James Bobin, who brings his own unique vision Continue Reading
The Walking Dead – “The Next World” (S6, E10 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A LAKE FULL OF GROCERIES … YEAH DON’T ASK* The Walking Dead is a lot of things my friends – dramatic, touching, sad, scary, occasionally happy, doom-laden and portentous – but tonight it was also instructive in the ways of apocalypse etiquette. Yes etiquette, in Continue Reading