I have loved comic strips for the longest time. While Peanuts is my first great love, and has been joined my affections in recent years by such superlative strips as Pearls Before Swine, Get Fuzzy, and the insightful and adorable artistic triumph that is Patrick McDonnell’s Mutts, it is Continue Reading
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“Defiance”: Review of season 1 finale, ‘Everything is Broken’
Embodying pretty much everything you could want in an explosive, emotionally-rich, fingernail-embedded in armchair finale, “Everything is Broken” was a fitting end to season 1 of syfy’s groundbreaking new show Defiance (which operates in conjunction with a Massively Multiplayer Online game, or MMO, of the same name). Central to Continue Reading
Judging a book by its cover #6: “Rosewater and Soda Bread”
The object of this series, which I am running in conjunction with my wonderful friend, Elle, who blogs at Inkproductions.org (well-written, entertaining and thoughtful articles on all things writing and blogging-oriented) is to grab a long-neglected unread book off our shelves, speculate on what we think the book’s about based solely Continue Reading
The fiery revolution of “Snowpiercer” cuts through an icy dystopian future (movie poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT After a failed experiment to stop global warming, an Ice Age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snow Piercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. A class system evolves on the train but Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art #6: “Games of Thrones” goes to Springfield
Another fantastically imaginative postmodern TV show mash-up? Yes please! Talented illustrator and artist Adrien Noterdaem who goes by the name of ADN-z on deviantart.com has married the breathless, bloody drama of George R. R. Martin’s Games of Thrones, the current water cooler TV show to end all water cooler shows, to Continue Reading
Hey presto! Remove one letter from famous book titles … and they’re transformed
I adore the guys and gals at Buzzfeed. They dish up an endless supply of amazingly cool pop culture gems they have found on the good old “interweb”, enlivening many an ordinary day. Inspired by the #BooksWithaLetterMissing hashtag game on Twitter, one of their posts in the last week featured book Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “Francis Ha”
SNAPSHOT Frances (Greta Gerwig) lives in New York, but she doesn’t really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but shes not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren’t really speaking anymore. Frances throws herself headlong into her dreams, Continue Reading
Falling Skies review: “Be Silent and Come Out” (season 3, episode 6)
After last week’s rather lacklustre filler episode, “Search and Recover” aka “Tom and Pope Take a Meaningful Walk in the Woods / The 2nd Mass. Go On a Meaningful Horse Ride” – seriously when you have a finite 10 episode season to play with, who can afford a filler Continue Reading
Now this is music #10: My 5 favourite songs right now – Washed Out, Bat For Lashes/TOY, Midnight Juggernauts, MØ, CHVRCHES
“It All Feels Right” by Washed Out There is a wistful, folkish, almost otherworldly sound to the songs of Georgia (USA) native Ernest Greene who records under the rather world-weary-sounding moniker Washed Out. Rather aptly named “chill wave”, his music is a languorous excursion into lazy summer Continue Reading
Season 4 of “Miranda”? Such fun but a long way off alas
According to the good people at digital spy.com.au, Miranda Hart, start of the hit British sitcom Miranda, and recently voted as the number choice should Steve Moffatt decide the new Doctor Who should be a woman, is one very busy lady. So busy in fact that season 4 of Continue Reading