If you’re a big kid at heart, and honestly where is the fun in not being one, then you’ll adore the idea of immersing in the loveliness and bonhomie of A Sesame Street Christmas. First published in by Golden Books in 1982 with a delightful story of the Muppets Continue Reading
No calm after the storm: Fear the Walking Dead debuts S4b poster + trailer
SNAPSHOT The first half of season four began with one figure huddled around a campfire, and ended with nine. Characters who started their journeys in isolation collided with each other in unexpected ways and found themselves in one of the last places they ever expected to be…together. In the Continue Reading
Movie review: Edie
It may sound a strange thing to say in a creative medium fit-to-bursting with stories of redemption and hope but there are precious few authentic feel-good tales in modern cinema. Too often legitimately affecting narratives are over-burnished or emotionally overwrought to such a degree that they remain moving but Continue Reading
Adam Rex dares to ask – Are You Scared, Darth Vader?
Darth Vader scared? C’mon as if that would happen! Ah yes, but what if he was left alone with a young kid on a sleepover who in that playfully relentless way kids have decided to see if he could scare a man who is the author of fear, and Continue Reading
Now this is music #107: 8 Graves, NoMBe, LIONE, Cōfresi, DNMO
I love artists who push the musical envelope, who dare to very much do their own thing but who also retain an ability to tap into the kind of humanity that makes the best pop songs so damn relatable. These five artists have all those qualities in spades, delivering Continue Reading
Can you tell me how to get to … my 3 favourite Sesame Street characters
I started watching Sesame Street pretty much right from the word go, way back in the early ’70s. Being a young impressionable kid, I loved pretty much everything about it, happily finding my way to Sesame Street, any and every opportunity I got. While I loved everyone on the Continue Reading
LONGEST. FLIGHT. EVER. What happened to the much-delayed passengers of Manifest?
SNAPSHOT Manifest begins “when Montego Air Flight 828 landed safely after a turbulent but routine flight, the crew and passengers were relieved. Yet in the span of those few hours, the world had aged five years and their friends, families and colleagues, after mourning their loss, had given up Continue Reading
Book review: The Museum of Modern Love by Heather Rose
Human beings are an innately communal species. It’s one of the things that define us – our need to not simply be in close proximity to our fellow women and men but to know them, laugh with them, drink and eat with them, and above all, profoundly connect with Continue Reading
Who is responsible for the distinctive look of sitcoms? You might be surprised
SNAPSHOT Karl Freund was the genius cinematographer behind Metropolis, the silent film classic. But then he designed the set for I Love Lucy – the first of the multicam, laugh-track heavy sitcoms. Today, they look bland, but it wasn’t always that way. But at the time, Freund had a Continue Reading
Liar liar pants on fire! Or is he? We find out in Luis and the Aliens
SNAPSHOT No-one believed Luis’s dad when he said he’d been attacked by an alien. And growing up with an obsessed Ufologist for a father hasn’t been easy for 12-year-old Luis, either. But then three crazy aliens crash their ship right in front of Luis, and finally, he’s got the Continue Reading