SNAPSHOT In Gaga: Five Foot Two, Lady Gaga narrates how loneliness has pervaded her life as a star. It also shows scenes of her struggling with chronic pain due to fibromyalgia, as well as a snippet of an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in which she lists a Continue Reading
Someone get the man a calendar! Superstore S3 debuts featurette
Superstore is one of those little-engine-that-could sitcoms that often flies under the radar, dependably delivering up ratings without ever really setting the criticasl world on fire. Granted, it’s not, nor will it ever be a Frasier or an All in the Family classic but it is definitely a cut Continue Reading
Movie review: Kingsman The Golden Circle
As befits a series that began life as a series of comic books by Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar, the Kingsman films, first The Secret Service (2014) and now The Golden Circle, possess a cartoonish zest to go with their tales of Bond-like derring-do, their Bourne-levels of violent self-discovery and their almost Continue Reading
Reunited and it feels so festively good: Happy bonkers Christmas from French and Saunders
Apart from Laurel & Hardy and Abbott & Costello, my favourite comedic couple in the world is French and Saunders. After meeting as students in 1978 at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders have gone onto stellar careers, reaching a collective zenith Continue Reading
Comic book review: Giant Days
Giant Days is one of those comics you fall in love with almost instantly. To be honest, instantly. How can you not? The three main characters – Esther de Groot, Susan Ptolemy and Daisy Wooton, all first year students at the University of Sheffield when the series opens – are Continue Reading
Take a deep breath! Here comes Young Sheldon
SNAPSHOT The show is the story of a young Sheldon Cooper (Ian Armitage), a character Emmy Award-winning actor Jim Parsons made famous in the long-running series. The series is narrated by Parsons as the adult Sheldon, and takes on some of the stories about his childhood that he’s told Continue Reading
Book review: Get Well Soon by Marie-Sabine Roger
Reading a book after watching the movie or TV show is always an interesting exercise (the same applies, but in different ways, to the reverse). Not necessarily because one will be good and one will be bad, but purely because it is always fascinating to see how two creative Continue Reading
Now this is music – get your groove on! Loote, Elohim and Whethan, Opia, MY, Stanaj
Let’s face it – life can be absolutely brilliant and gorgeous, unstoppably, fantastically wonderful with cherries on top; but it also be beigely uniform and onerously frantic, a thousand demands piled one on top of the other until you feel like you’re about to break. Before you reach that Continue Reading
Life is hilariously bleak in O-Town: Rocko’s Modern Life in comics
Fresh from news that ’90s animation stalwart, Rocko is coming back for a very modern TV special, where he has to contend with all the weirdass blessing and curses of modern life, comes the welcome announcement that the humorously well-intentional but life-inept wallaby from O-Town is being given a Continue Reading
Movie review: After Louie
For many people, the past is just that – the past. An influence, a set of memories, a formative influence on who they are but nothing more than that; creatures of the present, however weighed down by what came before to greater or lesser degrees, they exist now, happy Continue Reading