SNAPSHOT A surreal animated comedy series from real-life best friends Nick Kroll (Kroll Show, The League) and Andrew Goldberg (Family Guy) that explores teenage adventures in puberty. The series uses the voice talents of John Mulaney, Nick Kroll, Maya Rudolph, Jason Mantzoukas, Jordan Peele, Fred Armisen, Jenny Slate, and Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “La Serpiente” (S3, E11 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE BASEST PARTS OF HUMANITY, BOTH COLORECTAL AND OF THE SOUL … “La Serpiente” was a really shitty episode. No, I mean, really … shit everywhere as Madison (Kim Dickens), Victor (Colman Domingo) and Qaletaqa Walker (Michael Greyeyes) followed the shhhhh! super-secret squirrel route into Continue Reading
Deck the modern festive halls: The Man Who Invented Christmas (trailer)
If you have paid but a moment’s notice to this blog, it will be patently obvious that I love Christmas. LOVE. IT. The songs. The tree. The lights. The bonhomie and goodwill. The presents. The spirit of giving. It all adds to what the song joyfully describes as “the Continue Reading
Planting potatoes and dreaming: New Moomins animated series arrives 2019
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
Coco: A colourfully lush reminder that family and music is everything
SNAPSHOT Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel (voice of newcomer Anthony Gonzalez) dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz (voice of Benjamin Bratt). Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead Continue Reading
Hamfam: A trippy porcine ride into a comic post-apocalyptic wasteland
SNAPSHOT Hamfam – a 25 page digital comic set within a dark, dangerous wasteland – following the exploits of a surreal and quirky pig! The World has ended, but the party has just begun!Hamfam is more than a pig, more than a place – it’s a way of life. Continue Reading
Movie review: Patti Cake$
People, against all odds, are born dreamers. There are a million reasons why they shouldn’t be, with life mounting plenty of compelling reasons why it’s a fools errand to think that anything but the beige-coloured, dead hand monotony of reality awaits anyone’s hopeful grip. Yet despite everything, that brass Continue Reading