If anyone can make something beautiful out of something chaotic and terrible, it is the mesmerisingly good duo that is The Bird and the Bee, made up of singer Inara George and producer Greg Kurstin. Their latest collaboration, Put Your Lights Up was put together during a year when a Continue Reading
Go scarily and hilariously back in history with Scooby-Doo: The Sword and the Scoob
SNAPSHOTProduced by Warner Bros. Animation, Scooby-Doo: The Sword and the Scoob takes our favorite teen sleuths on a trip to England to trace Shaggy’s family roots, where they suddenly find themselves in the Middle Ages and meet the legendary King Arthur and his noble knights. It’s an unforgettable adventure inspired Continue Reading
Star Trek: Discovery – “Terra Firma (Pt 1.)” (S3, E9 review) / The Mandalorian – “Chapter 15: The Believer” (S2, E7 review)
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE MOTHER OF ALL THERAPY SESSIONS … So, here’s the thing – if you want to maintain good health, what you should not do, and to be fair it’s hard to avoid doing it in the Star Trek universe so you’re work cut Continue Reading
On 5th day of Christmas … I watched Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Biting off more than you chew is pretty much a non-negotiable requirement of Christmas celebrations which, if they aren’t doing everything from food to togetherness to presents and, hopefully, joyous bonhomie to excess, simply aren’t trying hard enough. One of the latest festive offerings from Netflix, Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Continue Reading
Shaun the Sheep: We Wish Ewe a Merry #Christmas (review)
If you have watched any episodes of Shaun the Sheep, and yes, while the program is ostensibly aimed at kids, many adults will get a kick out of it too, furnished as it is with Aardman’ trademark silly wit and whimsy, you will have noticed the show’s protagonist is a Continue Reading
#Christmas movie review: LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special
Debuting 42 years exactly since the much-loved but slightly infamous 1978 Holiday Special, the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special is a delightful throwback to the Christmas TV specials of old like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) and A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965), combining iconic characters, a cheekily seditious sense of Continue Reading
On 4th day of Christmas … I read Christmas: A Biography by Judith Flanders #BookReview
You might ask yourself if Christmas actually needs a biography – aren’t all its many secrets and stories already well known to us? It turns out, as you dive deep into the highly readable Christmas: A Biography by Judith Flanders, that they really, really aren’t. All those stories we know Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more #Christmas songs: Carly Rae Jepsen, Gwen Stefani, Kelly Clarkson, Ava Max, Kevin Max & Michael Tait, Marc Martel and Amy Grant, Tegan and Sara, Porcelan, Alicia Witt, Colton Dixon
Is there a lot of Christmas music out there? There is, in fact, a LOT of Christmas music out there and while we are most often concerned with the albums that come out every year, as you will see in a series of upcoming blog posts reviewing the ones I Continue Reading
On 3rd day of Christmas … I listened to A Very Trainor Christmas by Meghan Trainor
Quite possibly more than most seasons, Christmas is a delightful mix of the exuberantly, garrulously colourful and the meditatively, thoughtfully mellow depending on where you land over the course of December 25th and its fun but often hectic lead-up. This duality of feel and tone is reflected beautifully in A Continue Reading
Movie review: Palm Springs
Once more, to the time loop, my friends once more! While that is pretty much the raison d’etre of this particular genre of film, of which Groundhog Day and Edge of Tomorrow are likely the most well known examples, there can be a little foreboding about the fact that we Continue Reading