(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Childhood is in many ways, the most perfect and yet, once departed, the most impossible of idylls to return to, and yet as the enduring power of A. A. Milne’s now 100-year-old creation Winnie the Pooh reminds us in ways melancholic and yet comforting, it doesn’t Continue Reading
Ready for my cinema seat, Mr. DeMille: my favourite 60 movies #Andyat60
(via Shutterstock) I honestly recall the first movie I ever saw but it was highly likely it was on the TV. When I was a kid, cinemas were few and far between on the Far North Coast of New South wales and while my family wasn’t poor, we weren’t flush Continue Reading
The loveable characters of Sesame Street do their best to get into the Netflix vibe
(courtesy Netflix TUDUM) When HBO decided not to renew its contract to screen first-run episodes of Sesame Street, there was a brief moment of worry about who would step in to keep kids learning their ABCs and 123s with the likes of Grover, Big Bird and Elmo. Thankfully, Netflix stepped Continue Reading