SPOILERS … AND WAY MORE SOCIOPATHIC POSTURING THAN IS GOOD FOR ANYONE FRANKLY Yes Carl (Chandler Riggs), there is a Sociopath. Granted that’s not as festive as the traditional “Yes Virginia there is a Santa Claus” but then the eight year old girl who was the subject of that Continue Reading
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Think monsters have it easy? Even Godzilla has a Bad Day
It would be easy to assume that a creature as big and fearsome as Godzilla could never have a bad day. Sure every time he dares to step on shore he’s shot at, attacked, harassed and electrocuted but surely after all this time – he first appeared in Ishirō Honda’s 1954 Continue Reading
Deck the Daleks … Happy holidays from Doctor Who! (Christmas special trailer)
SNAPSHOT The Christmas episode this year will have the Doctor join forces with a masked Superhero for adventure in New York. With aliens poised to attack, the Doctor and Nardole link up with an investigative reporter and a mysterious figure known only as The Ghost. Can the Doctor save Continue Reading
Book review: Don’t Let Him Know by Sandip Roy
No matter how open someone may appear on the surface, the odds are that somewhere with them lurks secrets unspoken, some possibly even unacknowledged, that may never see the light of day, regardless of how close they may be to their loved ones. This idea, that we never truly know Continue Reading
“[He] speaks for us all”: The innate truths of Sam Klemke’s Time Machine (documentary)
SNAPSHOT In 1977, Sam Klemke started obsessively documenting his entire life on film. Beginning decades before the modern obsession with selfies and status updates, we see Sam grow from an optimistic teen to a self-important 20 year old, into an obese, self-loathing 30-something and onwards into his philosophical 50s. Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The yin and yang of Jinxy Jenkins & Lucky Lou
One of the oft-quoted truisms of love is that opposites attract. While that’s true to some extent, it’s probably more accurate to say that opposites attract who are complementary to, and bring out the best in, each other. That’s very much the case in Jinxy Jenkins & Lucky Lou, Continue Reading
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life “Fall” review
So that was quite a year wasn’t it? Admittedly it was distilled down to 4 x 90 minute episodes but given the ups and downs we endured along with Lorelei (Lauren Graham), Rory (Alexis Bledel) and Emily (Kelly Bishop) it feels like an entire year had passed for the Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Deliciously twisted kids books covers
SNAPSHOT Many of these original books focus on life’s lessons, joys, and curiosities. Gackley cleverly takes the books’ classic covers and turns them into unforgettable, edgy, politicaly incorrect parodies that speak to the bad little kid in all of us. With a catalog of children’s book titles like Peeping Continue Reading
Now this is music #80: Cruel Youth, Luna Shadows, VHS Collection, Kimbra, Handsome Ghost
Christmas may be less than a month away, and festive music may be everywhere you go but that shouldn’t be your sole source of musical sustenance during December (and this is from someone who adores Christmas music). So try out these five amazingly-talented, clever artists who don’t just deliver Continue Reading
Open your heart to everyone: The heartwarming festive story of Frankie’s Holiday
I grew up knowing exactly what it feels like to be excluded and ostracised. Teased and bullied from the start of school to the end on a daily basis, for reasons known only to my tormentors, I longed to be loved and accepted for who I am, no strings attached Continue Reading