SNAPSHOT Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the rest of the beloved “Peanuts” gang make their big-screen debut, like they’ve never been seen before, in state of the art 3D animation. Charlie Brown, the world’s most beloved underdog, embarks upon an epic and heroic quest, while his best pal, Continue Reading
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All the feels and then some: UP in real life
It’s rare indeed that life is anywhere near as wonderful as that which people imagine when they create their art. That’s not to say that life is unremittingly awful; simply that it rarely is as perfectly realised as that which we conjure up. But in the case of the Continue Reading
Halloween books: Who’s the scariest monster in literature?
So who’s the scariest of them all? Well, when it comes to monsters in literature that is. No one doubt there will be as many opinions as there are monsters – as a great big scaredy cat, I will happily admit to finding them all quite scary in their Continue Reading
Halloween weekend pop art: 7 stunning monster posters from Universal
If you were out on a dark and stormy night, the last creatures you want to run into would be the likes of Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, The Bride of Frankenstein, Frankenstein, The Creature From the Black Lagoon and The Invisible Man. They are pretty argue down Continue Reading
Halloween movie review: Crimson Peak
It is impossible to watch Guillermo del Toro’s latest gothic horror masterpiece, Crimson Peak, without wondering if there is more to be feared from the living than the dead. It is a question that Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska), would have more cause to muse on than most, after her Continue Reading
Halloween short: Dream a little dream of Freddy Krueger
OK so here’s two things you don’t usually see together – Freddy Krueger from the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and 1931 song “Dream a Little Dream of Me”, recorded by among many others Mama Cass Elliot of The Mamas and the Papas. But in this highly entertaining Continue Reading
Now this is music #57: Max and the Moon, Postiljonen, Cheat Codes, Lost Kings, Philco Fiction
Light and dark. They go together more often than we’d like to admit in life, the melancholic sitting cheek-by-jowl with the ecstatic, and so it makes perfect sense that it would find expression in music. The five bands and duos features know this lesson of life well and have distilled Continue Reading
The Gilmore Girls are back! Where they lead, I will follow …
Gilmore Girls is, hands down, one of my favourite ever TV series. It’s not simply the storybook setting of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the engaging mother-daughter pairing of Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel), the fast-paced, witty, wordy (in the best possible sense) dialogue stuffed full of insightful, deftly-placed Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Thank You” (S6, E3 review)
* SPOILERS AHEAD … AS WELL AS MORE ZOMBIES THAN YOU SHELTER ON A DUMPSTER FROM * If there’s one thing we’ve learned in six seasons of The Walking Dead, and most particularly in last week’s gory attack on Alexandria, it’s that death and the apocalypse go together like inseparable Continue Reading
Run away! The aliens are coming to get you in Hunters
SNAPSHOT From executive producers Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead, The Terminator trilogy) andNatalie Chaidez (12 Monkeys, Heroes), Hunters is inspired by Whitley Strieber’s best-selling novel, Alien Hunter, in which the disappearance of a decorated FBI agent’s wife leads him to a secret government unit assembled to hunt a Continue Reading