A new year and after five years of rapturously and emphatically-declaring “Now this is music” – meet me in person and you’ll understand why that is; I am an extrovert and prone to being fulsomely enthusiastic – I’ve decided it is high time for a musical change. So I present Continue Reading
Come with me to A Place Called Slaughter Race!
One of the great delights of Ralph Breaks the Internet, of which there are many, is a musical number that takes place after Vanellope, who finds herself beguiled rather than repulsed by the many life-changing possibilities of the Internet (Ralph, by way of contrast, just wants to go home), sings Continue Reading
It’s time to NOT put on make-up: The Muppet Show without the muppets
SNAPSHOT A little bit of fun by the crew recorded at the end of the first series/season of The Muppet Show in 1976…The crew/cast includes Peter Harris, Richard Holloway, Jim O’Donnell, Brian Grant, Steve Springford, Jerry Hoare, Phil Hawkes, Gerry Elms, John Rook, Martin Baker, Sue Boyers, Francis Essex, Dennis Continue Reading
Dare to Dream with this Eurovision 2019 update: Logo + interval acts
You may be asking yourself right now – “Did we not just witness Israel’s fabulously-funky Netta win the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest? How we can be closer to 2019’s event than the one just gone?” Time, my friends, time and it’s already racing ahead to May this year when the Continue Reading
Movie review: Bird Box
When you really stop to think about how utterly life-changing and disruptive to a fatal degree the apocalypse would be, the first thing that comes to mind is how utterly shock-inducing it would be. One minute, Western civilisation stands proud and strong, and with it, your small, comfortable sliver of Continue Reading
Winter has well and truly come: Game of Thrones evocative S8 teaser trailer
Winter has well and truly come in Game of Thrones in the gripping teaser trailer. In the evocative, and let’s be honest, creepy crypts beneath Winterfell, which will be one of the first places to feel the icy touch of the White Walkers and their leader, the Night King, we Continue Reading
Book review: The Best Version of Me by Guy Sigley
Barney Conroy, a man who never met a confrontation-avoiding lie he didn’t like, who always chose complicated cover-ups over the simplest and easiest of responses to any given situation and who yet somehow ended up with the love of his life, Gloria, and a delightfully-sweet daughter Emily, is back as Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Down beneath the waves with Jonas and the Sea
SNAPSHOT Jonas has dreamed of living in the sea all his life. But it’s not possible. Or is it? (synopsis via Vimeo) There is such delight and whimsicality in this breathtakingly-beautiful piece of animation that you scarcely know where to begin. In Jonas and the Sea, directed and animated by Marlies Continue Reading
Io: When Earth becomes just another toxic relationship
SNAPSHOT Sam (Margaret Qualley), one of the last survivors on a post-cataclysmic Earth, is a young scientist dedicated to finding a way for humans to adapt and survive, rather than abandon their world. But with the final shuttle scheduled to leave the planet for a distant colony, her determination to Continue Reading
Finally watched … the return season of Murphy Brown
Can you ever really go back? It’s an existentially-loaded question which confronts anyone who tries to return to something, somewhere or someone they once loved, and it’s one which doesn’t always have the happiest of answers following in its wake. One arena in which this particularly-loaded nostalgia-laden query has been Continue Reading