If there was a marriage made in musical heaven, it’s the union of Swedish pop superstar Robyn, and Norwegian electronic music duo Röyksopp (Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland) who together have released the diverse and yet enjoyably cohesive mini-album Do It Again. The product of an already long-existing creative partnership Continue Reading
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Stories in small boxes #2: Pearls Before Swine
You get the impression that Stephan Pastis, one time insurance claims litigator and now irreverently funny and über-successful cartoonist of hit comic strip Pearls Before Swine, is the kind of man who doesn’t like to play it safe. Well, not any longer, anyway. Realising after one year of law Continue Reading
Nothing one able-bodied female can’t handle: Vale Ann B Davis aka Alice from The Brady Bunch
We all know that time passes way too fast. But the sheer rate of knots at which it travels, dragging us along with it in its wake, hits home when someone from your childhood dies and you’re left wondering where all that time actually went. It’s probably why the Continue Reading
Movie review: X-Men Days of Future Past
With the vast number of movies dipping their dystopian toes into the grim waters of the post-apocalyptic future, you could be forgiven for wanting to bury all your calendars, switch off any computing device with more memory than a toaster and hightailing it to a remote cabin in the Continue Reading
Want a book from the fabulous Amy Poehler? YES PLEASE!
I am fairly certain … no wait, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt in fact … that Amy Poehler is the funkiest, coolest, funniest, female entertainer on the planet at the moment. * It stands to reason then that if you have achieved that exalted status, and Continue Reading
Here comes the Fall … TV! Send in the Superheroes
If you’re anything like me, and if you’re drinking you’re meds-laced Snapple and faithfully attending weekly therapy sessions you probably aren’t, the headline to this post likely has you humming “Send in the Clowns”. And if it hadn’t inspired that particularly annoying piece of retro ear candy, it has Continue Reading
Once … twice .. thrice more through the all-new renovated Stargate
It’s renovation time at the Stargate my friends! But lest this conjures up images of Daniel Jackson, Colonel O’Neill and Apophis rolling up their sleeves and giving the Ancients-spawned wormhole-creating devices a good old sand back and re-paint, let me assure you that what is really afoot is a Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: When books and nail art brilliantly and beautifully collide
Ask anyone who reads a lot of books what they love about them and they’ll likely tell you it’s the immersive worlds you are subsumed into, the vivid characters, the sense of escape into someone else’s life, the joy/the sadness/the exhilaration of being someone else for a while, the Continue Reading
Movie review: My Sweet Pepper Land
It could be said, in what is admittedly a gross simplification, that the world is divided into two diametrically opposed groups – aspiring idealists who believe they can make a real difference to the world in which they live, and cynical pragmatists who see no hope for society’s redemption, Continue Reading
The eyes have it: The Strain infecting a TV near you soon
SNAPSHOT The Strain is a high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll), the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an Continue Reading