SNAPSHOT Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast South Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped – and no one today knows why. From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes Moana, a sweeping, CG-animated adventure Continue Reading
Is it possible to bridge The Space Between Us?
SNAPSHOT Described as being a “star-crossed science fiction love story,” The Space Between Us follows two teens from different worlds. Gardner Elliot, the first human born on Mars, is secretly raised in an experimental colony after his astronaut mother dies during childbirth. Sixteen years later, Gardner begins an online Continue Reading
Book review: All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
Being an outsider is never an easy thing. It can be wondrous, freeing, the granter of wildly unexpected perspectives and a sense of being uniquely set apart; but it can also leave you feeling lonely, socially crucified and ill-adept and wondering if there is a place for you in Continue Reading
Need a Finding Nemo refresher before Finding Dory arrives? Here’s an emoji recap
Finding Dory is almost upon us folks. Yes good old Finding Dory which is … um … what was I saying? Oh yes … Finding Dory is almost upon us folks and … Goodness you could make Dory-like forgetful jokes all day couldn’t you? But guessing peoples’ sense of Continue Reading
First impressions: Be Cool Scooby-Doo
Reviving much-loved pop culture characters can be a challenge. Too much homage to nostalgia, to the much-loved but well worn tropes that defined the characters in the first place and you’re simply consigning them to an increasingly small niche and possibly eventual creative stagnation and obliterative irrelevancy. Too much new Continue Reading
Want to let the world know about your reading list? Rap it readers!
If you were to take a look at my bookshelves, you would soon come to realise that I own an enormous number of books., I mean, a LOT. Many of them are read, kept because of some emotional attachment or love of the book itself, but many, much to Continue Reading
Douze points? Mais non! 12 Eurovision entries that didn’t score a single point
There are many things that are memorable about the Eurovision Song Contest. The songs. The costumes. The staging – pyrotechnics, key changes, costume reveals, wind machines, odd props and back-up singers that look like in the wrong place at the wrong time. And then, of course, there are the Continue Reading
The Way Old Friends Do: ABBA reunite to sing on stage
At last ABBA has reformed! Well before we, and by we I mean I get completely carried away – with ABBA this is extremely easy to do such is my four decade long devotion to the musical cause of four talented Swedes who made some of the best pop Continue Reading
Read with Amy Schumer: The Girl With the Lower Back tattoo
It pretty much goes without saying that Amy Schumer is a very funny lady. The creator, co-writer, co-producer and star of sketch comedy series Inside Amy Schumer and the writer and star of last year’s hit romantic comedy Trainwreck, Schumer has an enviable gift of combining humour with poignancy Continue Reading
Wayward Pines: “Blood Harvest” (S2, E2 review)
Are you having a really crappy day at work? I’ll hazard a guess and say though that it’s nowhere near as the bad as the ones suffered by Dr Theo Yedlin (Jason Patric), Ben Burke (Charlie Tahan) and Kerry Campbell (Kacey Rohl), and to a lesser extent Jason Higgins Continue Reading