Once the things that pretty much everyone loves about Doctor Who is how human he/she is, a pretty impressive achievement for a Galifreyan with two hearts who may be a sworn protector of humanity and their home planet Earth but who most certainly doesn’t come from there. But what if, Continue Reading
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One summer can change everything: Stranger Things season 3
It’s been a while coming but now we have a poster for Stranger Things season 3, an ominous tagline, a teaser date annoucement video (complete with a hidden message in all its cryptic glory) and a release date! What we don’t know is why Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) looks so Continue Reading
Little Women at 150 and the patriarch who shaped the book’s tone (curated article)
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
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