There are a number of great abiding loves in my life – my gorgeous partner Steve, Christmas, my birthday, caramel cheesecakes, and the Eurovision Song Contest, for which I stage a big, fun party with friends every year. We are in the thick of all things Eurovision right now Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Buried” (S4, E4 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A DAY AT THE FAIR, GREAT (NON) ESCAPES, AND CATTLE FEED APPETISERS … MMMM “Buried” was a case of almost “leaving on a jet plane / Don’t know when I’ll be back again” … well, it would have been, of course if (a) there were Continue Reading
On ya bike! TV and movie-image rich PSA encourages us to ditch our cars
SNAPSHOT This an unbranded PSA for bike advocates and enthusiasts, content designed for anyone and everyone to share, remix, or tailor for their own purposes to promote cycling and transportation choices in their communities. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Unless you’re not paying attention at all, or have a twisted Continue Reading
Colony: Maquis (S3, E1 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND DUPLICITY, RESISTANCE AND GREAT BALLS OF FIRE (NO, REALLY, ACTUAL BALLS OF ALIEN FIRE) There’s no such thing as a quiet moment (or six months for that matter) in the apocalypse, alien or otherwise. But goddamn it, the Bowmans, plus Snyder (Peter Jacobson) who’s supposedly Continue Reading
You’re a maniac! Maniac … on the floor! GLOW energetically dances its way to season 2
SNAPSHOT Set in ’85 LA, GLOW revolves around the adventures of Ruth Wilder (Alison Brie), an out-of-work actress who turns to the burgeoning televised female wrestling scene to rescue her career. Ending on a cliffhanger that’d make the World Wrestling Federation organisers proud (someone wins the GLOW crown, someone Continue Reading
Thoughts on Lost in Space (Netflix, 2018)
Buckle up folks! This is not your childhood’s Lost in Space. Not that that’s a bad thing – after all for all its kooky loveliness, idiosyncratic appeal and sufficient beloved catchphrases to power a thousand comic-cons for millennia, Irwin Allen’s 1960s journey into the stars was not without its Continue Reading
Privacy is a crime: The sobering anti-anonymity of Anon
SNAPSHOT A dystopian sci-fi thriller from writer/director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, The Host), Anon centers on a detective (Owen) living in a world where privacy and anonymity have been completely eliminated. When he discovers a woman (Seyfried) who has no digital footprint, it leads him on the trail of a Continue Reading
Comics review: Wallace the Brave
Childhood is a magical, wonderful time. In the world of Wallace the Brave, drawn by Will Henry, the pen name of Jamestown, Rhode Island-based Will Wilson, it’s all that and more, a whimsical, fabulous place where you can muse on what it would be like to “heroically [ride] a Continue Reading
#Eurovision book review: The Shelf Life of Happiness by David Machado #Portugal
What makes you happy? Kind of stumped for an answer? Don’t worry. it’s a question that leaves a lot of people flat-footed, including the first-person protagonist of David Machado’s illuminating novel The Shelf Life of Happiness which beautifully and blisteringly honestly examines what makes us happy. Or given this Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Pop culture characters get an animated makeover
As a creator, you must get used to your creations being out there, subject to proper copyright observance of course, for everyone to love, enjoy and interpret as their own. One group who makes particular use of this release into the pop culture wild of all kinds of movie Continue Reading