SNAPSHOT The No. 1 LEGO® series triumphantly returns with a fun-filled, humorous journey based on Star Wars: The Force Awakens, The game also features exclusive playable content that bridges the story gap between Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. (official synopsis via Laughing Squid) Let’s face it Continue Reading
Five fab animation trailers: Kubo and the Two Strings, Trolls, The Secret Life of Pets, Zootopia, Finding Dory
Let’s get animated! Or perhaps let a whole lot of fabulous characters in some wonderful looking animated movies do their thing. There’s certainly a lot to choose from with some beautiful looking, and just plain quirky, silly fun animated films coming up in 2016. As is the way of Continue Reading
Movie review: Brooklyn
Have you ever asked yourself what home feels like? Not the physical building as such; rather than sense of belonging that comes with a particular place and time where the people that matter to you are present, you have a sense of purpose and direction and your life feels Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Disney characters go whimsically dark in Tim Burton-esque illustrations
Gifted, idiosyncratic director and creative visionary Tim Burton is no stranger to Disney. He has after all, in the last few years alone, directed or produced Alice in Wonderland (2010) and Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) for the home of Mickey Mouse so it makes perfect sense that artist Continue Reading
Now this is music #62: The Dandy Warhols, EKKAH, Lady Bee, KEØMA, PANKHABILLI
“Love is a many-splendored thing” observed Frank Sinatra and while that is still as true as the day he first sang it, there’s also a lot about it that isn’t so wonderful. Well at least when it’s in its death throes anyway. Kinda gloomy to focus on you might Continue Reading
First impressions: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
How far would you go for love? Or at least the idea of love? Hell, a skerrick of a thought of a glimpse of a whispered memory of love from 10 years previously? Probably not all that far on the last count but then you’re not Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom), Continue Reading
Book review: The Restoration of Otto Laird by Nigel Packer
There is an inevitable melancholy to growing old. Even those who, in the words of Dylan Thomas, “rage, rage against the dying of the light” can’t help but feel a certain chill in the air as the years advance, a sense of regret, of things lost and never found despite Continue Reading
Is that you Scooby? Iconic Hanna-Barbera characters get a facelift courtesy of DC Comics
My but don’t the owners of iconic pop culture properties like to re-invent them! You see it all the time in the movies where re-imaginings and reboots crop like mushrooms on the forest floor after heavy rain. It’s less common in animation where characters may get tweaked and finessed Continue Reading
I’m moving to Ryanville: New commercial features (almost) nothing but Ryan Reynolds
Hey did I tell you I’m moving? Yep, all of a sudden. Happy where I was, loving my housemate’s company, my partner’s proximity, my fun, funky, cafe-rich neighbourhood and then … WHOOSH! Packed and moved JUST. LIKE. THAT. I’m not entirely sure why really … oh hell of course Continue Reading
First impressions: The Shannara Chronicles
Generally speaking when we’re shown a dystopian view of future Earth, there’s something innately recognisable about the people and the places they inhabit. Sure they may be a whole world away from anything we know but there are enough touchstones for us to see ourselves, albeit a far murkier, Continue Reading