For most people, an every-other-weekend with their partly-shared custody kid would comprise a trip to the park, maybe a X-box game or two and perhaps even dinner out to somewhere fun and nutritionally suspect. But Walt is not most people and in Bob Nelson’s (Nebraska) latest excursion into the Continue Reading
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Then the world went hazy: Ninth City Burning book trailer
SNAPSHOT We never saw them coming. Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to fight, a universe-altering force known as thelemity. It Continue Reading
CLIP ME! “Tilted” by Christine and the Queens
It’s a rare thing as you get older – not too old thank you, just older – when the first blush of musical discovery that so defines your teens has dissipated and you either only listen to the music of those turbulent years or use them as a stepping Continue Reading
Coffee and sneaky feminism: First page of the Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life script
As a non-coffee drinker of long standing – too bitter and frankly it looks like mud; sorry, not sorry – I never quite understood Lorelai’s obsession with drinking java at every possible opportunity. Still, it was intrinsically and amusingly part of her character and so like everything else about Continue Reading
Movie review: Captain Fantastic
Death has a way of shaking the certainties of life, such as they are, down to their very foundations. Try as we might to keep things exactly as they were before the cold hand of dread mortality comes calling, the reality is that life up to that point is Continue Reading
Sad face! Happy face! Hmm … Finding Dory told through emojis
Finding Dory is one of the standout hits of a packed animated feature film slate this year. A sequel to 2003’s Finding Nemo that was as fresh, sweet and heartfelt as its predecessor, Finding Dory is an absolute joy to watch as I remarked in my review of the film: Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Pablo & Jessica” (S2, E11 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AS WELL AS UNORTHODOX USES FOR BROKEN TEQUILA BOTTLES AND MAKE YOUR OWN DILUTED OXYCOTIN TABLETS* There’s nothing quite like a relaxing holiday by the beach. All you have to do is sit by the bar, get yourself smashed on tequila, break glasses against the Continue Reading
Dare to defy: DC’s Legends of Tomorrow season 2 trailer
*SPOILERS AHEAD FOR SEASON 1 … READ ONLY IF YOU WATCHED SEASON 1 OR CAN GO BACK IN TIME AND FORGOT YOU READ THE FOLLOWING BEFORE WATCHING SEASON 1 WHICH COULD CREATE A PARADOX … AND NEVER MIND* SNAPSHOT After the defeat of the immortal villain Vandal Savage Continue Reading
Book review: The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood
Expectations. They form the cornerstone of the way we approach life – how fulfilling our careers will be, how our relationships will flourish and grow, how we will love our parents, siblings and children, how rewarding out everyday lives will be. And naturally they are rarely lacking in positivity Continue Reading
Happy 50th birthday Star Trek! Love, Frasier and a whole lot of talented artists
Has it been 50 years already? Surely it was just yesterday that we boldly went where no man has gone before, unleashed a whole lot of trouble with Tribbles, and stood gazing from the City on the Edge of Forever? And yet here we are, not fifty years later Continue Reading