The Moomins, Finn Tove Jansson’s delightfully philosophical creations who have been making our lives infinitely richer since 1945, will be given a new animated lease on life courtesy of an overwhelmingly oversubscribed Indiegogo campaign by Finnish company Gutsy Animation. The pitch, which aims to deliver 13 new 22-minute mixed Continue Reading
Book review: The Town by Shaun Prescott
In so many crucial ways, people are defined by where they live. It’s not necessarily a conscious thing, although there’s strong evidence that many people gravitate to a particular place such as hippies in northern New South Wales and deliberately let it inform who they are, but it is Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Posters for every Star Trek Next Generation episode
Back in the glory of days yore when TV series ran for multiple seasons and came with burgeoning episode counts, they made a lot of TV. I mean, a LOT of TV. Which is how Star Trek: Next Generation, which brought Gene Roddenberry’s utopian vision of the future back Continue Reading
Get going! It’s time for Asterix and the Chariot Race
Growing up, I was exposed, whether by design or accident – I suspect a mix of both – to a wide range of reading material from right across the globe. The inclination to read this widely came from both my parents but particuarly my dad, borne of a belief Continue Reading