by Ryna Ordynat, Monash University It’s 150 years since Little Women by Louisa May Alcott was published and in the time since, the book has never been out of print. The story of the March sisters struck a chord with readers – especially young girls – early on, and Continue Reading
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Happy pop culture new year everyone!
Small screen, big stories, much bingeing: My 10 favourite TV shows of 2018
For a man who loves his TV, this year proved to be quite the challenge.As I tried to balance watching lots of movies, reading more books and listening to as many songs as normal, which is a considerable amount, I found keeping up with all my usual TV shows, let Continue Reading
Happy Boxing Day! Celebrate with the Teen Titans Go!’s “Second Christmas”
Let’s hear it for Second Christmas! What, you say? You have barely recovered, lo these few hours hence, from the first one? (I have no idea why I have gone vaguely medieval English but just run with it, and any galloping reindeer you may see). Well, suck it up and Continue Reading
Happy pop culture Christmas everyone!
It’s a Golden Books Christmas with Donald Duck, Huckleberry Hound, Yogi Bear, Winnie the Pooh and Babes in Toyland
So here’s something you may not know – Alaska only became a state of the USA in 1959. Making much of that fact, this lovely tale of Yogi and Boo Boo heading off to spend Christmas with Uncle Northman and Kate Kodiak, and their young cubs Yukon and Klondike, is Continue Reading
The Orville: Boldly going where no homage has gone before
Hands up, ardent Trekkies and those who are happy to dip their intergalactic-loving into the narratively-rich waters of sci-fi storytelling, if you have ever seen someone on their way to the toilet on Star Trek? Or bickering about marital troubles? Obsessing about child-raising methods? (Worf excepted.) Or voicing all those Continue Reading
On 9th day of Christmas … I watched my 3 favourite Frasier festive episodes again
Frasier is a brilliant sitcom any time of the year you care to watch it (and honestly that should in copious amounts and often). But there’s something about the show’s Christmas episodes which really brings out what makes Frasier, which ran for 11 seasons from 1993 to 2004, such a Continue Reading
Thoughts on A Charlie Brown Christmas
In a world of dazzling CGI special effects and ever more postmodern, cleverly-interwoven stories, the beautiful simplicity of 1965’s A Charlie Brown Christmas is striking. Holding close to the look and spirit of Charlie Schulz’s immortally-brilliant comic strip Peanuts, the animated Christmas special features, as you might expect given the Continue Reading
On 5th day of Christmas … I listened to A Legendary Christmas by John Legend
There is a lush musicality to pretty much everything that John Legend creates and performs. It comes from an innate understanding of the smoothness and richness of his music, a sense of how it and his voice work together, all of it coming perfectly together to lend his songs an Continue Reading