SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE BEGINNING OF THE END (FOR REAL AND NOT JUST NARRATIVELY) … So Colony is dead … long live, well, nothing really since in marked contrast to shows like Lucifer and Brooklyn 99 which attracted spirited campaigns from fans and cast & crew, the #saveColony Continue Reading
Lin-Manuel your Miranda! Deadpool 2 is gifted a musical parody
In the beginning was Deadpool and behold he was very good – raunchy, funny, irreverent, in-your-face, trope-smashingly good. He begat, as is so often the way in the mist-shrouded, bottom-line driven ways of Hollywood studios (who also care about artistic creativity too of course; hahahahaha, good one, Andrew) Deadpool Continue Reading
Book review: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
As a lifelong avid reader, there have been several key moments in my reading journey when things have taken a quantum leap up to a whole other level. One of those times was around 11 or 12 when I was no longer as challenged by children’s novels as I Continue Reading
Home is calling: Plunge beneath the sea with Aquaman (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Following the events of Justice League, Arthur Curry, the reluctant ruler of the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, is caught in a battle between surface dwellers that threaten his oceans and his own people, who are ready to lash out and invade the surface. (Wikipedia) I was never one Continue Reading
Eurovision 2018 songs as the soundtrack to animated films? Yes please, and thank you!
Netta Barzali was a gloriously animated winner of Eurovision this year, bring spark, fun and quirky vivacity to a contest already rich in all three. So it makes perfect sense that YouTube user, known simply as reviewer, would marry up the songs from this year’s crop of artists with Continue Reading
Christmas in July #4: Home alone feeling scrooged? These Christmas movies deserve some love, actually (curated)
Ari Mattes, University of Notre Dame Australia The cultural environment in which we watch a film inevitably shapes our response to it. Engaging with the Yuletide ecology by watching Christmas films offers a genuine cinephilic pleasure, be it kitsch, ironic, or sincere. The following taxonomy is by no Continue Reading
A gay and a straight man walk into a press event: Alex Strangelove stars test their LGBTQ+ knowledge
It goes without saying, but hey-ho I’m going to say it anyway, is that there are differences between the gay and straight worlds. Not unbridgeable ones of course, and one of the loveliest most heartwarming things of the modern era (hateful trolls aside) has been to watch the straight Continue Reading
Welcome everybody … to the trailer for The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales
SNAPSHOT If you think the countryside is calm and peaceful, then you might want to think again. France’s most unconventional farm plays home to a number of mixed-up animal folk. We are introduced to a fox that thinks he is a chicken, a rabbit that acts like a stork Continue Reading
Movie review: Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
Like most brilliantly-executed pop songs, the songs of ABBA have always possessed a beguilingly lyrical storytelling quality. There is the angst of remembered lost love in “Our Last Summer”, the exuberant romantic victory of “Waterloo” and the warning about players in love in “Angeleyes”, and a thousand other tales Continue Reading
Not everyone was me: Artist captures the poignancy of re-discovering your childhood bullies as an adult
I was bullied ceaselessly and mercilessly as a child. Every day at school was hell and I spent my time trying to maintain as small as profile as possible, a necessary strategy which robbed me of all kinds of academic and sporting activities I would’ve been damn good at. Continue Reading