*SPOILERS … AND THE ARRIVAL OF ABBIES ON CAROUSELS … NOT AS MUCH FUN AS YOU MIGHT THINK* So humanity continues to hold a knife to its throat in the latest instalment of everyone’s favourite dystopian future, Wayward Pines. On the surface, nothing too much dramatic happened; but Continue Reading
Shows we’d love to see #423: The Walking Dead holiday variety show!
Hurrah! The undead just got a little festive. Now before you imagine zombies with party hats and bonbons, carousing with wine and human flesh mince pies, consider what might happen if The Walking Dead put on its very own 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special show, one complete with appearances by Continue Reading
Movie review: The Queen of Ireland
In this age of movie blockbusters, megaphone-loud social media outbursts and viral demagoguery, we have become accustomed to heroes, revolutionaries and agents of real and lasting change as being swashbucklingly larger than life. After all, anyone who is capable of accomplishing any kind of societal transformation must be someone Continue Reading
Find your flock: Storks (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for global internet giant Cornerstore.com. Junior, the company’s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorized baby girl. Desperate to deliver this Continue Reading
Movie review: Finding Dory
You could well argue that a film as beautifully made and emotionally impacting as Finding Nemo doesn’t require a sequel; that it is perfectly complete in and of itself. That argument would likely stand until you see Finding Dory, Pixar’s latest animation masterpiece which takes the forgetful Pacific Regal Continue Reading
Hey Hodor, come and play the many games of Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones title suggests many things – the perverse lengths many men and women will go to grab hold of the shiny brass ring of absolute power, the insanity of thinking that holding onto something as ephemeral as power will last any longer than a game, and whether Continue Reading
Book review: Lily and the Octopus by Stephen Rowley
Grief can be a cruel, intangible beast. As we grapple with great loss and the seemingly unending loss of control that comes with it, we struggle to understand how to approach to deal with it, how to regain some form of power from an entity that seems to have Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Want to make life less boring? Just add monsters!
What does the everyday world of commuting, paying taxes and hurried lunches need more of you ask? Why monsters! Yes … MONSTERS. Now if you’re a resident of some nightmarish apocalyptic landscape like The Walking Dead or Alien/s, you may wish to disagree. But I’ll hazard a guess that, Continue Reading
Wayward Pines: “Once Upon a Time in Wayward Pines” S3, E3 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE DISTASTEFUL SMELL OF DREAMS DYING* So dreams huh? Lovely things to hold onto, filling you with hope and expectation, great lyrical fodder for Disney musical songs or Hallmark cards, but a real nasty piece of work when they die and disappoint. Or if you’re Continue Reading
Tick tock, tick tock … Belle & Tina are Time Travellers
It seems like everyone is travelling through time these days. If it isn’t Marty McFly in Back to the Future, it’s Rip Hunter and his motley crew in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, or good old Doctor Who, who rather delightfully and meta-richly ends up as one of the pop Continue Reading