When you fall in love with a character from a book, your fondest wish is to stay with them, enjoy their company and see where they go next. It’s a natural reaction to any character who leaps off the page and into your heart, or indeed any person you meet Continue Reading
Weekday streaming poster art: Meet the cast of The Last of Us via their character posters
SNAPSHOTThe Last of Us is an upcoming American post-apocalyptic drama television series created by Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann for HBO. Based on the 2013 video game of the same name developed by Naughty Dog, the series will follow Joel (Pedro Pascal), a smuggler tasked with escorting the teenage Ellie (Bella Ramsey) across a post-apocalyptic United States. It will feature Gabriel Luna as Joel’s younger brother Tommy, Merle Dandridge as resistance Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: A. G. Riddle’s Quantum Radio’s perilous discoveries loom thrillingly large
SNAPSHOTAt CERN, a scientist has just made an incredible discovery – a breakthrough that may answer the deepest questions about human existence. But what he’s found is far more dangerous than he ever imagined. Dr. Tyson Klein is a quantum physicist who has dedicated his entire life to his research. Continue Reading
Movie review: Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
Finding your people is one of life’s greatest joys. Not simply because belonging somewhere is the kind of cosy contented rush that money can’t buy, but because your family, and that’s what they are are in every meaningful respect, often take a form and an expression that you didn’t see Continue Reading
Small screen, big stories, much bingeing: My 25 favourite TV shows of 2022
Good lord but there were a lot of TV shows produced this year. Somewhere 500 to 600 scripted shows hit broadcast TV and streaming, and while the initial reaction is exultation at so much choice, it’s quickly tempered by the factor that (a) a good deal of those shows are Continue Reading
Download. Play. Dance. Sing. My 20 favourite songs of 2022
I love music – all kinds and at all times. It is the literally the soundtrack to my life, making my exercise sessions more bouncy, melodic and upbeat, my commutes feel almost fun (and that takes some doing!) and those times when the world seems a little (or a lot) Continue Reading
Lost in a sea of beautiful words: My 25 favourite books of 2022
Reading has always been my happy place. My safe space too, a place of escapism and reassurance, especially when I was growing up and my days were filled with bullying and a constant sense, gleaned from some of the people at the church where my dad was a minister, that Continue Reading
I need more popcorn and candy stat! My 25 favourite films of 2022
While COVID hasn’t gone away, and is currently once again doing its best to derail Christmas, 2022 did return sufficiently to something approaching normal to allow a lot of cinema visits over the last 12 months. Suddenly catching up with friends over dinner and a movie became an almost weekly Continue Reading
Not a protagonist was stirring, not even an anthropomorphic mouse … Merry Christmas to all and to all a good pop culture night!
It’s been a crazy, busy, pandemic-y year once again but even amongst all the stress and strain and plague, my hope, as it is every year, is that this Christmas … You will not find snowy monsters with big teeth pursuing you … but if you do, you’ll have good Continue Reading
Book review: Tinsel – The Girl Who Invented Christmas by Sibéal Pounder
You would think by now that’s there not a lot of imaginative newness that can be brought to bear on the story of Santa; after all, his story is well documented, to the point of exhaustive detail, and you could rightly assume that’s all the festive mythmakers wrote. But, as Continue Reading