For people who have experienced great and enduring trauma, the kind that begins at birth and never really lets up, seeping into every pore of a blighted existence so profoundly terrible there is no adequate way to describe it or exist well with it, reality is a cruel and awful Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Tender Bar, India Sweets and Spices, Being the Ricardos
The Sydney lockdown may have ended but the PTSD of sorts has not. Hence, while I can go to the cinemas if I am so inclined, the reality is, bar a couple of bookings – Eternals on 6 November and No Time to Die on 16 November, I am quite Continue Reading
Glorious farce and dressing up: “Halloween” / “The Kid”(Frasier, S5, E3 & E4)
Frasier, which ran for 11 deeply satisfying seasons from 1993-2004, is a superlative sitcom, boasting the holy TV triumvirate of brilliantly-realised characters, sharp as a tack, clever writing and an ensemble more than capable og breathing captivating life into both. While there are countless episodes where the sitcom’s gift for Continue Reading
It’s time to play the music, it’s time to slay some orcs … The Muppet and Lord of the Rings go together surprisingly well
Have you ever wondered if The Muppets and The Lord of the Rings fellowship go together? Likely, no, but as Nerdist notes, the match up isn’t as strange as it sounds. “What are two great tastes that taste great together? The Lord of the Rings and The Muppets. At a Continue Reading
Believe again: Thoughts on Ted Lasso (season 2)
If you ask anyone who has been fortunate spend some time in the company of Ted Lasso, both the person and the program, the very first thing pretty much everyone will remark on is how sunny and upbeat the eponymous character is, and how unflappably upbeat he seems to be, Continue Reading
To infinity and … Lightyear debuts teaser trailer and poster
SNAPSHOTTo infinity and… The sci-fi action-adventure presents the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear—the hero who inspired the toy—introducing the legendary Space Ranger who would win generations of fans. Lightyear is directed by American animation filmmaker Angus MacLane, co-director on Finding Dory, and director of the shorts Toy Story of Continue Reading
LEGO Star Wars Terrifying Tales #Halloween
The marriage of LEGO and whatever pop culture property is sensible enough to submit to the power of Denmark’s favourite toy, usually an hilariously manic one. Jokes fly by you at a million miles an hour, character veer between hardcore meta and fourth wall breaking vivacity against a backdrop so Continue Reading
Scary! Right there on my TV … what if Ted Lasso and Sex Education were recut as horror movies?
It is fairly safe to say that Sex Education and Ted Lasso are not horror movies. Anything but in fact – the former is a dramedy that takes a honest and heartwarmingly brutal look at what it is like to come of age, sexually and otherwise, while the latter is Continue Reading
Book review: Sunfall by Jim Al-Khalili
It is, once again poor beleaguered citizens of planet earth, the end of the world as we know it. Or, at least the possible end of the world, anyway. In Jim Al-Khalili 2014-set, fast-paced race to a likely extinction line, Sunfall, there’s a very good chance that humanity is facing Continue Reading
It’s time to face your fears! The quirky, scary hilarity of the Muppets Haunted Mansion #Halloween
Are the Muppets inherently scary? Well, no, of course not, they are the very definition of quirky, sweet, charming and Dad Joke silly, the warm and fuzzy hug we need when things do get a little frightening. So, what then, you might ask, are they doing in a Halloween special Continue Reading