In an age when everyone is being encouraged to celebrate and own who they are without apology – unless you are a rightwing reactionary in which case stay just as you are, thank you; or better yet, don’t be that person at all in the first place – it Continue Reading
Everything is possible … even the impossible: Mary Poppins Returns (new trailer)
SNAPSHOT The cast of Mary Poppins Returns includes Emily Blunt (The Girl on the Train, Into the Woods), Emmy, Grammy and Tony Award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton, Moana), Ben Whishaw (SPECTRE), Emily Mortimer (Hugo) and Julie Walters (Harry Potter films), with Colin Firth (The King’s Speech) and Meryl Streep (Florence Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “MM54” (S4, E14 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND LOTS OF HELPING … WELL, WANTING TO, ANYWAY … “Bad shit happens when you try to help people.” Not exactly the sort of sentiment you’re likely to see splashed across a Hallmark card any time soon, but one voiced in the latest episode of Fear Continue Reading
“Aww c’mon guys, I’ll play nice”: Murphy Brown is back right when we need her
In this somewhat blighted Trump-ian age of “fake news”, opinion as fact and fact as opinion, we have become ever more dependent on and in need of people, particularly journalists and decision-makers who will stand up and tell it like it is even in the face of a barrage Continue Reading
Movie review: Christopher Robin
“There’s more to life than balloons and honey, Pooh.” “Are you sure?” This small but important exchange between an exasperated adult Christopher Robin and a gloriously-innocent Winnie the Pooh captures the very heart and soul of Christopher Robin, directed by Marc Forster to a screenplay by Alex Ross Perry, Tom Continue Reading
A trio of TV trailers! The Flash S5 + Outlander S4 + The First
INTRO THE FLASH (season 5) I’ll be honest – season 4 of The Flash felt a whole lot like treading water, with a plot that could have been done in half the allotted number of episodes. The Thinker (Neil Sandilands) was annoyingly evil if that makes Continue Reading
Book review: The Light Between Us by Katie Khan
“Wuv, true wuv”, as the Impressive Clergyman in 1987’s classic The Princess Bride rather hilariously puts it, often tends to get short accurately-portrayed shrift in popular culture. Not in terms of how often it is featured, which is a considerable amount, dappled as it is in the many hues Continue Reading
Literally the best place ever: Say hello to the mystically fabulous world of Hilda
Life can be scary when you’re taken away from everything you’ve ever known. Hilda, the star of an acclaimed graphic novel series by Luke Pearson and now a gorgeous-looking whimsical new animated show on Netflix, knows a thing or two about what that feels like as IO9 explains: “In Continue Reading
Now this is music #113: MNEK, Elohim, Amilli, Mitski, Miya Folick + Eurovision update
Life huh? Comes with all kinds of nasty baggage, unadorned reality and a distinct lack of glitzy everything at times; not exactly the kind of thing you want to dive into without some reassuring backup. Which is where these five gorgeously-good artists come in, people who muse in a Continue Reading
Dear friends, you are now about to enter … a trippily colourful Willy Wonka chill-hop video
The 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is fabulously trippy, gloriously imaginative and gleefully & subversively over the top, channelling the manically clever of Roald Dahl, on whose book the classic is based, perfectly. Everything from the giddily colourful visuals to the brilliance of Gene Wilder’s superlative Continue Reading