Doctor Strange, directed by Scott Derrickson, is proof positive that Marvel is capable of putting out more than one type of cookie-cutter superhero movie. Sure we’ve had Guardians of the Galaxy and Deadpool to reassure us that departing from the well-established, and granted highly successful, pattern that upholds the Continue Reading
Halloween book review: Stallo by Stefan Spjut
“If you go down to the woods today, You’re sure of a big surprise.” The opening lyrics to the “Teddy Bears’ Picnic” suggest that the worst thing you’ll encounter when you enter woodland are children’s much-loved playthings having a little too much tea and frivolity. But in Stefan Spjut’s Stallo Continue Reading
Beware the terror of … the vacuum cleaner! Well if you’re Simon’s Cat anyway
SNAPSHOT Watch Simon’s Cat face his greatest nemesis, the scary vacuum cleaner in this hilarious animated cat video. ‘The Monster’ is our 2016 Halloween film and features a number of cat fails, an ‘evil’ vacuum cleaner and of course lots of silly, cute and funny antics. (synopsis via Laughing Continue Reading
Road to Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life #6: Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days (S3, E1 review)
If there is one thing the good, fast-talking, quip-ready people of Stars Hollow love, well more than yet another festival – First Annual Stars Hollow End of Summer Madness Festival anyone? It fills in September! Taylor Doose (Michael Winter) is well pleased – it’s having an opinion on something Continue Reading
Halloween movie review: Already Dead (short film)
Zombies are everywhere these days; pop culture-speaking wise at least. But what, wonders Already Dead, a masterful short film from Posh Dinosaur Productions, that manages the supremely-difficult balance of being funny and heartfelt, if they were actually “living” among us in society? Written and directed by Michael James Dean, Continue Reading
Mamma Mia! ABBA to reunite … virtually
Like many ABBA fans, I occasionally find myself daydreaming of ABBA reforming, recording an album of new material, or at the very least pulling a double album of rarities out of their rumoured treasure vault of unreleased songs, and making all my fandom dreams come true. After all, due Continue Reading
Movie review: Hell or High Water
The American Dream was once the gold standard for the socially aspirational, enshrining the enticing idea that with enough grit, determination and in the nascent nation of the USA, boundless opportunity, anyone from anywhere could make something substantial of their lives. Complicit in this philosophy of social betterment was Continue Reading
I need coffee and donuts please – Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life has a full trailer!
SNAPSHOT Three generations of Gilmore women grapple with change and the complicated bonds of family during one year in Stars Hollow. (official synopsis via Netflix) Rejoice and be glad fellow Stars Hollow-ians! For Lorelai (Lauren Graham), Rory (Alexis Bledel), Luke (Scott Patterson), Sookie (Melissa McCarthy), Emily (Kelly Bishop), Lane Continue Reading
First impressions: Class (S1, E1 “For Tonight We Might Die” and E2 “The Coach With the Dragon Tattoo”)
High school is either the best of times or the worst of times, to roughly paraphrase Dickens, but the one thing on which can likely agree is that, coupled with the wholesale changes brought on by being a teenager, it comes with its unique set of challenges. Overbearing parents, peer Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The exploratory delights of Planet Unknown
Humanity has long been fascinated, and with good reason if current climate change trends are any indication (and they certainly appear to be), about what might happen when we have finally sucked the last tantalising vestiges of lifeforce from our beautiful blue planet. While saving the planet before it Continue Reading