Ah the breathless anticipation of what might be! It’s enough to get the pulse racing, the heart a-thumpin’ and your clammy, trembling hands reaching for the remote, eager to watch those much talked about programs now. Ah-ah-ah not so fast my friends! For many of these shows are Continue Reading
Movies
Poster me this #5: Muppets Most Wanted, Wolf of Wall Street, Paddington, The Invisible Woman,The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Ah the end of the year. So many movies, so little time (yes even with holidays at our disposal, there seems to be more cinematic temptations on offer than there are hours available to spend sitting in darkened theatres, popcorn in hand)! Working out just what to watch is Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art 11: The relentlessly cheerful art of James Hance
I love those random moments in life when you decide to do one thing instead of the other – for the record I was supposed to starting the next module of my online Photoshop course and chose to graze down my Facebook timeline instead; best procrastinating ever! – and Continue Reading
My 5 favourite Pixar short films
Pixar, which began life as the Graphics Group, part of LucasFilm, back in 1979, producing high end computer imaging hardware, and was once owned by Steve Jobs until sold to Disney in 2006 for $7.4 billion, is generally regarded as the preeminent purveyor of modern computer animation. Films like Toy Continue Reading
Birthday movie review: Filth
Irvine Welsh, the immeasurably talented author of the 1998 book on which Filth, the story of corrupt Scott copper Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy) who is rapidly lose his already tenuous hold on reality, is based, has quite accurately described this much-delayed movie adaptation as “an ultra-dark, head-fucking film.” It Continue Reading
Not just for birthdays … Pharrell Williams wants you Happy all the time
I come across an extraordinary amount of songs as I graze across the vast new digital musical landscape but rarely does a song make me so euphorically, well, happy as Pharrell Williams new single, appropriately titled “Happy”. It is a joy to listen to, to dance to, to put Continue Reading
Happy birthday to … 5 of my favourite fictional characters (#2)
I am a madly sentimental guy. If it’s an important event like say my birthday (which it is today) or Christmas or a family or friend’s birthday, I will go all out to make sure the day is as perfect as possible with chronic over-catering, balloons, accessories or trees Continue Reading
Kerrrr-mieee! It’s The Muppets Most Wanted new trailer! Wocka wocka wocka
We have a trailer for Muppets Most Wanted and I’ll bet even Statler and Waldorf would approve of it. OK quite likely not but the fact remains that we have a brand spanking shiny new madcap trailer for the next Muppets movie, a movie that I have been looking Continue Reading
Get Frozen … and Get a Horse! (New Mickey Mouse short)
Mickey Mouse is back where he belongs – cheeky, impetuous and with a nice retro 1920s sheen, thanks to a wonderful new short Get a Horse! that will accompany Disney’s new animated film, Frozen. With more than a tilt of the hat to cartoons like Steamboat Willie – try Continue Reading
Movie review: Fruitvale Station
It is hard to walk away from a film like Fruitvale Station, written and directed by Ryan Coogler in a confrontingly realistic docudrama style (which garnered him two major awards at this year’s Sundance Film Festival), without being profoundly affected. Detailing the tragic miscarriage of justice which occurred in Continue Reading