Who’s going to save Christmas? It’s a pretty big question at the moment with COVID once again laying waste to the best laid festive plans of elves and men, and one that can be answered quite simply, and for some, unexpectedly – Shaun the Sheep (Justin Fletcher). Yes, that Shaun Continue Reading
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Winnie the Pooh gets festive in A Very Merry Pooh New Year (incl. Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too)
If you had the choice of all kinds of fictional characters to spend Christmas with, and yes, there are an awful lot of them – although, to be fair, avoiding the xenomorphs from Alien or Pennywise from IT may keep a lot more festive – picking the residents of the Continue Reading
Do opposites festively attract? We find out in Christmas Flow (TV series)
Do opposites ever really attract? Not as often as you might think in real life, but often enough it seems for many a romantic comedy to hang its divergent storytelling upon the premise and see where competing life views may take it. It certainly works Christmas Flow, a French limited Continue Reading
Movie review: Ron’s Gone Wrong
Modern animation often sets out with three distinct goals – to be riotously funny, visually striking and to have a beating heart of humanity at its core that also imparts a meaningful message. It’s a tricky trio of things to keep in balance and not every animated features well, or Continue Reading
Hotdog eggnog! Ted Lasso gets stop-motion festive in The Missing Christmas Mustache
SNAPSHOTEmmy® winner Jason Sudeikis as Ted Lasso, an American football coach hired to manage a British soccer team — despite having no experience. But what he lacks in knowledge, he makes up for with optimism, underdog determination — and biscuits. The widely acclaimed series also stars Emmy® winner Hannah Waddingham, Continue Reading
On the 9th day of Christmas … I pondered who’d be best in glass in Blown Away: Christmas (review)
Christmas is beautiful. Really, really beautiful. Look around you – lights twinkle, plain green trees (to be fair gorgeous unadorned too) are festooned in baubles and tinsel, and yes, more lights, lit sculptures hang over on streets with word like “JOY” and “PEACE” split out in festive colour … and Continue Reading
The end of everything … or the beginning? Thoughts on Invasion (S1, E7-10)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SOME SNEAKY ALIEN STUFF GOING ON … Remember that scene near the end of Die Hard (which is yes, a Christmas movie) where everyone including John McClane (Bruce Willis) thinks their Christmassy ordeal is over until, all of sudden, head bad guy Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) Continue Reading
On 6th day of Christmas … Festive singing, dancing and all the feels with Zoey’s Extraordinary Christmas (movie review)
Christmas is usually the most wonderful time of the year. But when you have just lost someone impossibly near and dear to me, and you have have fond and abiding memories of Christmas, it can often feel like the land that happiness forgot, a season awash in jollity, tinsel and Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: S7, E 7 & 8 review + World Beyond: S2, E 9 & 10 review
THE WORLD BEYOND: “Death and the Dead” / “The Last Night” SPOILERS AHEAD … IT’S THE END, MY FRIEND, THE END … AND THE BEGINNING … The final two episodes EVER of World Beyond – unlike its stablemates, the show was only ever designed to be a limited series and Continue Reading
Will the Robinsons finally get home? Thoughts on Lost in Space (season 3 – final)
The Robinsons have been, and will always be, the beating heart of Lost in Space. By necessity, that was the case in the original Irwin Allen-produced 1960s original version of the show where, wacky aliens and strange contrivances aside such as the time the family went back to 1947 thanks Continue Reading