I am a huge fan of emojis. Unlike most 51 year olds, my texts, tweets and Facebook posts are littered with a profusion of the very cute pictograms, and frankly, if I could have them pop up around me while I walked and talked, I would. So it makes Continue Reading
Movie review: Kedi
Much like the cats who form its physical and emotional centrepiece, it is all too easy to underestimate the power of Kedi, a film which provides us with an unexpectedly moving account of the stray cats of Istanbul and the many people who interact with them on a daily Continue Reading
Now this is music #91: Fare Soldi, HAEVN, Goldmyth, LAUV, Tyzo Bloom
Stop right there! Yes … YOU. I know modern life is busy af and slowing down seems like anathema, the desperate beats of FOMO drumming mercilessly through every thought and feeling, but there is a real joy and reward in taking a few steps back, finding a seat somewhere Continue Reading
Winter is here – and so is a fearsome new Game of Thrones S7 trailer and posters
SNAPSHOT At the end of season 6 Daenerys’ (Emilia Clarke) dragons and her immense army were finally on the way to Westeros, where Cersei (Lena Headey) has now become Queen after the death of her children. The Night King’s (Vladimir Furdik in season 6) army is heading south, and Continue Reading
Landline: When people were harder to reach
SNAPSHOT In 1995, a teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan discovers that her father is having an affair. (synopsis via IMDb) Wouldn’t it be lovely if life worked out exactly as we imagined it would? Well the good bits anyway … In Landline, Jenny Slate’s character Continue Reading
Is there existential depth to Rick & Morty? “Wubbalubbadubdub yes!” says creator Dan Harmon
One of the really impressive things about Rick and Morty, Adult Swim’s incredibly clever animated series about an alcoholic scientist grandfather and his often hapless but EQ-rich grandson, has been the way it merges bright, funtastic visuals, amazingly imaginative worldbuilding and intelligent storytelling that doesn’t just spin out a Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “100” (S3, E4 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND NO WATER FOR SOCIALISTS … Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. (from Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Never were truer poetic words committed to the written word. And never were they more pertinent or desperately poignant that in Continue Reading
James Corden presents … Crosswalk the Musical: Mary Poppins
No matter how you slice it, James Corden is a joy. An actor, singer and host of The Late Late Show With James Corden, he is an imaginatively talented man who is responsible for the viral-happy Carpool Karaoke, very funny skits and interviews, and the subject of this post, Continue Reading
We were once humanity: Rakka, the first of the short films from Neill Blomkamp’s Oats Studios
SNAPSHOT RAKKA is the story of broken humanity following the invasion of a technologically superior alien species. Bleak harrowing and unrelenting, the humans we meet must find enough courage to go on fighting. (official synopsis via Laughing Squid) There is something deeply, viscerally confronting about Rakka (Japanese 落下 meaning “fall”), Continue Reading
Watch happiness come pouring out: Goodbye Christopher Robin
SNAPSHOT “Goodbye Christopher Robin” gives a rare glimpse into the relationship between beloved children’s author A. A. Milne (Domhnall Gleeson) and his son Christopher Robin (Will TIlston), whose toys inspired the magical world of Winnie the Pooh. Along with his mother Daphne (Margot Robbie), and his nanny Olive (Kelly Continue Reading