It began with a short skit during last year’s blighted US presidential campaign, became a revived TV series with a teaser trailer, and now Will & Grace, whose ninth return season (it’s first since 2006) episode count was upped from 10 to 12 and then 16, has now Continue Reading
Book review: Deadline by Mira Grant
With a built-in warning that humanity is its own worst enemy – by a considerable margin and that’s without a nasty zombie-creating virus on the loose in the world – Deadline picks up the shambling good work of its brilliant predecessor Feed, and runs with it, far faster than Continue Reading
Inside Big Bird: Witness how one of Sesame Street’s most-loved residents comes alive
Big Bird is one of Sesame Street‘s most beloved characters, the perfect embodiment of sweet childlike innocence, playfulness and an eagerness to learn. For much of his time on Sesame Street, he was given life by Caroll Spinney, a charming man who devoted much of his life to his Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The thoughtful fun of Joey Spiotto’s Firefly Back From the Black
I love the work of Joey Spiotto. He has a keen eye and obvious love for pop culture and invests all this art with a playful sensibility that still manages to convey everything you love about the characters and shows or movies he draws inspiration from. Take his Little Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: “The Queen’s Justice” (S7, E3 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND DRAGONS … AND SOILED PANTS You have to hand it to Jon Snow (Kit Harrington). Against near-unanimous advice from his bannermen and his sister Sansa (Sophie Turner) – who got the keys to Winterfell, and the even more-obsessive attention of Lord Petry Baelish (Aidan Gillen) Continue Reading
Free Bird Seed: The street artfulness of Wile. E Coyote
I watched a lot of cartoons when I was a kid. I mean, a LOT of cartoons. It explains why, even now, that I’m obsessed with new cartoons, their look, feel and sensibilities, but why the old ones such as Hanna-Barbera suite of lamentably shortlived series (The Flintstones and Continue Reading
Now this is music: Kick back and chill (Louis the Child, MÖWE, Tokyo, Snow Culture, Imogen Heap)
Life is a crazy, busy descent into delightful chaos, spirited freneticism and colourful explosions of love, joy, sadness, deadlines and expectations. Most of us manage this dance of extremes with aplomb because we have to, but also because we have the rhythm down right and we’re perfectly synced to Continue Reading
Get out of the flushing toilet bowl of life: Syfy says it’s time to be Happy!
SNAPSHOT Happy! will follow the journey of Nick Sax, a disgraced ex-cop who, as intoxicated and corrupt as he already is, keeps falling into his old habits of murder, sex, and betrayal and doesn’t seem to be getting out anytime soon. After suffering a heart attack, he finds himself visited Continue Reading
Movie review: War for the Planet of the Apes
Despite its many great achievements, humanity often fails spectacularly at one critically-important thing – being human. It is an existential Achilles heel, witnessed in our ongoing lack of willingness to show mercy instead of vengeance, pursue peace in place of conflict, practice love over hate, and it proves to Continue Reading
Is marriage dead? The fun and angst of I Do … Until I Don’t
SNAPSHOT In Vero Beach, Florida, a trio of couples at various points in their relationships become the subjects of a film about marriage being an antiquated idea that needs a reboot: Why not turn marriage into a seven-year deal with an option to renew? For Alice and Noah (Lake Continue Reading