Superhero movies love them. Fans sit through endless lines of credits to see them. They are post and sometimes mid-credits scenes, popularised recently by Marvel, which add a little extra to the movie that precedes them but also hint at where the next movie linked to the one you’ve Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2016: The Big Six – France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, UK
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
Where to now humanity? Wayward Pines season 2
Humanity is so ungrateful isn’t it? I mean, here it is – SPOILERS! – saved by one, admittedly singularly-obsessed man, Dr. Jenkins (Toby Jones) from certain cataclysmic annihilation, sealed off in an “idyllic” town well into the future (try somewhere around 4020) , safe from the mutant “Abbies” (short for Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Captive” (S2, E5 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND AN ANGRY THREATENING BULLY, GUY MOST LIKELY TO DIE NEXT … AND THE CRUMBLING SHARDS OF HUMANITY* Hello do-what-you-must apocalypse, goodbye lingering vestiges of civilisation! OK it wasn’t quite that dramatic but not by much. In an episode where Madison (Kim Dickens) had to go all Continue Reading
Book review: Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All by Jonas Jonasson
If you think it’s impossible to write a quirky, even madcap tale that involves a reluctant hitman, a disillusioned priest and sex hotel receptionist down on familial luck, then you have severely underestimated the talents of Swedish novelist Jonas Jonasson. The writer of internationally-successful novels The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Continue Reading
Captain Fantastic and the unyielding, heartwarming ties of family (trailer)
SNAPSHOT A father (Viggo Mortensen), devoted to teaching his six children how to live and survive in the deep forests of the Pacific Northwest, is forced to leave his self-created paradise. When confronted with the real world, he begins a journey that challenges his ideas of freedom and what Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2016: Week 6: Norway, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
Happy Mother’s Day! My 3 favourite TV mums
Everyone, well almost everyone, loves their mums. And on Mothers Day we go out of our way to make sure mum feels special, spoiled and even more loved than normal. (You all know this whole mother appreciation thing should be a year round event right? Good, just checking.) So it is Continue Reading
Movie review – Captain America: Civil War
When you walk into a Marvel movie, you can usually be pretty sure of what to expect. The necessary superhero contingent, either singular or massed, a leering, hubris-drenched baddy with the sort of lac of self-awareness that allows them to think they will emerge victorious, a narrative punctuated by Continue Reading
Life is a poisoned chalice in Tom Hardy’s Taboo
SNAPSHOT Set in 1814, Taboo follows James Keziah Delaney, a man who has been to the ends of the earth and come back irrevocably changed. Believed to be long dead, he returns home to London from Africa to inherit what is left of his father’s shipping empire and rebuild a life for himself. Continue Reading