I am made of popcorn … and choc-top ice creams … and yes, big bags of brightly-coloured lollies (candy) … At least that’s the way it feels given how much I spend at the local cinema, especially towards the end of the year and over the Christmas break, taking Continue Reading
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Merry Christmas to all … and to all a good night (of TV/music/cinema/reading)
Merry Christmas everyone! I have had a wonderful year writing what feels like a million and one enthusiastic posts about pop culture and as I permit myself to relax a little (from blogging at least) while I race around the east coast of Australia visiting family for Christmas, I want Continue Reading
On the 12th day of Christmas … I pondered the enduring popularity of “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens
It would be a rare person indeed who hasn’t read, seen, or even listened to, a version of Charles Dickens’ classic novel A Christmas Carol, which has remained wildly popular ever since its publication on 19 December, 1943, and which shows no sign of slipping off the zeitgeist radar any Continue Reading
On the 11th day of Christmas … I found TV shows and movies I love rendered in LEGO
Let’s hear it for tenuous links to Christmas! Yes I am basing the inclusion of the following highly imaginative recreations of TV shows and movies in LEGO on the fact that it is (a) Christmas and (b) it was at this very festive time that I was often given Continue Reading
On the 7th day of Christmas … I preview 5 movies I can’t wait to watch over the summer break
My gloriously long two week summer break – trust me compared to the one or two days I have taken off here and there over the last year of frantic work, it is indeed epically long – is so close I can almost it (if you must know it Continue Reading
Mashup! “Toy Story” merges seamlessly with “Into Darkness”
Oh joyous news! To my eternal delight – “eternal” being defined as anything that catches my attention long enough to stop me looking at Twitter again for at least five minutes – phoenixdark9 on YouTube has mashed together Toy Story 2 (and a small bit of Toy Story 3) with Continue Reading
On the 4th day of Christmas … the comfort of annual viewing traditions
I was watching The View recently and they had Angie Harmon (Law and Order, Rizzoli and Isles) on as a guest. Now while I think she is a beautiful, delightfully down-to-earth person, I wasn’t planning to hang around for the interview until she said that her fondest Christmas tradition Continue Reading
Sneak peek! “Pacific Rim” trailer
And the sci-fi mega0-movies just keep on coming. Now we have the Guillermo Del Toro helmed-movie, Pacific Rim, which is based on an initial treatment by Travis Beacham (who has been given the job of writing a sequel already despite the movie not releasing till July 12, 2013 in Continue Reading
Sneak peek! Trailer for M Night Shyamalan’s “After Earth”
One of Hollywood’s most gifted, and yet at times maddeningly inconsistent directors. M. Night Shyamalan’s is back with another movie, and you what? It looks pretty damn good. I know there are a great many people who have tired of Shyamalan’s cinematic vision after films like Lady in the Continue Reading
Quick peek! “Oblivion” trailer
Behold the trailer for the upcoming apocalyptic movie Oblivion, where once again mankind has not played nice with planet Earth, rendering our precious blue and green ball irradiated and unfit for habitation for neither man nor beast. Or so the remnant of humanity, safely ensconced in towering cities above Continue Reading