SNAPSHOT In Yellowstone Park, legends speak of a spirit bear referred to as “the Yogi,” which few if any have actually encountered. Real or not, when a bear seems to have graduated from stealing picnic baskets to kidnapping actual campers, Ranger Smith decides it’s time to stop this menace—so Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Scavenger and the case of the well-disposed alien
Watch the average movie that tells the tale of our imagined encounters with extraterrestrial life and it becomes readily apparent that we don’t expect the meeting to go all that well. There’s an inherent expectation that we will be invaded or annihilated or enslaved or accidentally expunged, or all Continue Reading
Goodbye Rick Grimes: Review of The Walking Dead, S9E5 ep “What Comes After”
SPOILERS AHEAD … IS RICK ALIVE OR DEAD? OR MERELY INDISPOSED? TRUST US, WE’LL SAY SO BEST BACK AWAY NOW (BY HORSE OR ON FOOT) IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW … So this is the end my friend the end for Rick (Andrew Lincoln) right? Well, yes and Continue Reading
It’s #StrangerThingsDay – why not hang out with something hungry for blood?
If you look at the average current calendar of events, it’s crowded with a variety of commemorative days celebrating everything from pancakes, cats, auras, shopping and vegans. That’s a lot of celebrating my friends, and now thanks to Netflix, you can add Stranger Things Day to the mix. But Continue Reading
TV review: Russia with Simon Reeve
Who doesn’t love to immerse themselves in a good travelogue? After a day spent battling mindless-rushing commuters and immutable deadlines at work, with no prospect of leaving, Peter Paul and Mary-like, on a jet plane for anywhere exotic anytime soon, there is something inordinately appealing about seeing somewhere beyond Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Colour-coded pop culture characters
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bh8zOfPgbLs/?utm_source=ig_embed Do you ever take in the amazing creativity of someone like, oh say, French art director Linda Bouderbala and muse upon the moment of inspiration when the genius idea of grouping together pop culture characters of a particular character came to her? Nope, just me? Well, I muse upon Continue Reading
Book review: An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green
Deep with all of us there is a void in this shape of whatever it is we most crave, need or want. Not all of us will admit it’s there of course, or if we do, be largely aware of the shape it takes, but it is there nonetheless, Continue Reading
What We Do in the Shadows TV series: Everyone’s favourite wryly amusing vampires return
SNAPSHOT Much like the movie, the series follows three vampires who live together: Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), and Nandor (Kayvan Novak) — the former two are husband and wife. Also living with them is a fourth vampire named Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), who’s an ‘energy vampire’. Instead Continue Reading
Movie review: Bohemian Rhapsody
A lot gets asked of the average biopic. It must give us a penetrating insight into the life of the subject, preferably something that is unknown (easier with people no longer on the crest of the digital zeitgeist) or at least little known, it must be entertaining and recall Continue Reading
Come and sample Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion (Astérix: Le secret de la potion magique)
SNAPSHOT The druid Getafix nimbly clambers up and down oak trees to gather mistletoe in the forests surrounding the Village of the Indomitable Gauls. But one day the expert climber has a bad fall. And my, does that get him worrying! What on earth would happen if he was Continue Reading