We’re boldly going into space yet again. But don’t go looking for Kirk, Picard, Janeway or Sisko to show you the way. In the next television instalment in Gene Roddenberry’s idealistic vision of a spacefaring future free from war, discrimination and want – although as Deep Space Nine showed Continue Reading
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Book review: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Shakespeare may have been the one to remark on it in his play As You Like It, but the truth is all of us, at least the self-aware among us, have wondered at one time or another if we are merely playing the parts assigned to us and if Continue Reading
Superheroes arise! Trailers for Wonder Woman, Doctor Strange, Justice League #SDCC
We are drowning in superhero narratives at the moment (or is it that we’re drowning and the superheroes are coming to rescue us and …?). But that’s understandable. After all, they seize the imagination, takes on bold and imaginative journeys into ourselves, the human spirit, around the world and Continue Reading
Flintstones! It’s the re-imagined comic book Flintstones … wait, what?!
They were, as the jaunty theme song is fond of saying, “the modern stone age family”. But a lot of time has passed between the 1960s when The Flintstones debuted, inspired in large part by The Honeymooners, and while the cartoon re-runs are still a delight to watch with Continue Reading
Movie review: Jason Bourne
The tagline for Jason Bourne is the definitive yet poetic “You know his name”, an evocative phrase designed to speak to our familiarity with a character who, over the course of three genre-redefining films that caused among other Bond to play visual and narrative catch-up, we had come to know Continue Reading
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
There are very few things these days that get me as excited as a kid at Christmas but the imminent arrival of four new episodes of the Gilmore Girls, one of my favourite TV shows ever, penned no less than by the creator and chief scribe (not including season Continue Reading
Wayward Pines: “Walcott Prep” (S2, E9 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AS WELL AS OVERLY INTIMATE MOTHERS DAY CELEBRATIONS, NOT ENOUGH JUICE IN THE TANK AND ABBIE-FREE HOLIDAYS* It was back to the classics this week in Wayward Pines, nominated as the town most likely to be consumed by vengeful evolutionary anomalies by 10/10 apocalypse survivors, Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The slapstick hilarity of FUEL
If you’ve been alive for more than 5 minutes, you’ll know it doesn’t take long for things to go from bad to worse and beyond. Life is rampantly, crazily unpredictable and what might seem like a simple enough undertaking – in the case of FUEL, a delightful screwball short Continue Reading
Movie review: Maggie’s Plan
Life is a messy business. That would be a self-evident truth to most people but not to Maggie (Greta Gerwig), who, despite being highly intelligent and an accomplished professional whose job involves bringing together arts graduates and businesses, can’t quite come to grips with the fact that life doesn’t confirm to Continue Reading
Simon’s Cat and Elmo together? Sounds absolutely purr-fect!
SNAPSHOT A playful cat teaches Elmo all about cats. “Play like a Cat” is one of two episodes made in an exciting collaboration with Sesame Street. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) I am a cat person; specifically a Simon’s Cat person. And I am also, if you’ve been paying attention Continue Reading