One of the many joys of being an uncle to four quite delightful young nieces and nephews is the chance it gives me to go and watch a host of animated films that might otherwise pass me by. Of course, I go and see some of them anyway, but Continue Reading
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Fear the Walking Dead – “TEOTWAWKI” (S3, E3 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A RATHER LONG PRECIPITOUS DROP TO A ZOMBIE PIT FAR BELOW … You may not think that you can prepare for the End of the World As We Know it – both a kickass R.E.M. song and the long form version of tonight’s acronymic title Continue Reading
Can David Tennant calm your cats and dogs? He can and it’s purrr-fectly marvellous
SNAPSHOT Pet behaviourist Karen Wild and vet Robert White-Adams (with a little help from David Tennant) talk about the science behind the first films for cats and dogs designed to help calm them around fireworks and loud noises. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) This is a genius idea. Bring together Continue Reading
Book review: Uprooted by Naomi Novik
There is something deliciously subversive about Noami Novik’s Uprooted, an epic fantasy novel that seems to promise something sweetly benign in the first few chapters, before giddily defying expectations every step of its uniformly excellent way. The book starts out innocently enough with the protagonist and narrator Agnieszka, a 17 Continue Reading
Want to get close to aliens? Time to get yourself Ghosted!
SNAPSHOT From 20th Century Fox Television, 3 Arts Entertainment, and Gettin’ Rad Productions, a cynical skeptic (Craig Robinson), and a genius “true believer” in the paranormal (Adam Scott), are recruited by a secret government agency to look into the rampant “unexplained” activity in Los Angeles — all while uncovering Continue Reading
Stargate Universe lives on with a new comic resolving that bittersweet cliffhanger
SNAPSHOT Stargate Universe followed a exploration team on an ancient spaceship called Destiny, and their attempts to get back to Earth from billions of light years away. In the season two finale, the decision is made to put Destiny on a three-year, faster-than-light jump while the crew goes into Continue Reading
Sesame Street parodies strike again: Witness the tasty fun of Orange is the New Snack
Sesame Street is the unquestioned monarch of parody. From Game of Thrones to Harry Potter, True Blood to Pirates of the Caribbean and many more in-between, the parodies from the unquestioned originator of the gold standard in televisual children’s education have amused and instructed in equal measure, proof that Continue Reading
Movie review: Ali’s Wedding
It’s a rare thing indeed these days to walk out of a romantic comedy, more popularly referred to as rom-coms, with your head held high, a skip in your step and a strong sense that the world is a wonderful place. Too often you are left with a nagging Continue Reading
Weekend poster art: Celebrate the triumph of #WonderWoman with these wonderful posters
SNAPSHOT From Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Entertainment comes the epic action adventure starring Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen and Robin Wright, directed by Patty Jenkins. Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered Continue Reading
Now this is music #90: Jessica Hernandez, Coin, Grizzly Bear, VÉRITÉ, From Indian Lakes
Given music’s deserved ubiquity in our society, it’s all too easy to forget how profound an effect it can have on our lives. For those of who love music, truly deeply, madly, completely love it, it is essential, not just a way of adding colour and flavour to our day-to-day Continue Reading