SNAPSHOT This (NSFW language) blooper from Adult Swim animates Roiland continuously breaking during Rick’s explanation to his family about how and why he turned himself into a pickle. Every time Roiland gets to the obviously silly, obviously not sincere line about how Rick “understands Morty’s suspicion” because he has Continue Reading
Happy Christmas from Gilmore Girls: “Santa’s Secret Stuff” (S7, E11)
Spending any kind of time with Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) is always, without exception, a delight. Even more so when it’s Christmas, a time so wonderfully magical, even when delayed (more on that later), that it transcends the fact that season 7 of Gilmore Girls Continue Reading
Still delightfully charming … meet the real John Lewis
SNAPSHOT Every year, the British retailer John Lewis runs a wonderfully heartwarming holiday advert that perks up interest in holiday shopping. While the company is indeed on Twitter as JLandPartners, a Blacksburg, Virginia man, who also goes by the name John Lewis, is the actual the owner of the Continue Reading
Being human and being hurt are the same thing: The Kominsky Method (season 1 review)
Let’s be honest – growing old doesn’t look like a whole heap of fun. Sure you have the wisdom of all those hopefully-happily accumulated years, a nice line in public transport discounts and the time to shop for all those bargains that evade the more time-pressed of us. But Continue Reading
You’re off and running with Scandinavian whimsicality with Moomin’ Move!
My oh my but doesn’t augmented reality stir up a hornet’s nest of reactions! On the surface, they’re fun electronic games that have “escaped” into the real world, giving people the chase to go on the hunt for characters and treasures, alone or together, and get some exercise in Continue Reading
Book review: The Witch Who Courted Death by Maria Lewis
Diving into a book by Australian author Maria Lewis is a guarantee that you will be plunged, with well-researched vigour, emotional resonance and palpable love and familiarity with the supernatural, into a world vary different from the everyday world we encounter. Each of her books to date, which incorporate Continue Reading