Deep with all of us there is a void in this shape of whatever it is we most crave, need or want. Not all of us will admit it’s there of course, or if we do, be largely aware of the shape it takes, but it is there nonetheless, Continue Reading
What We Do in the Shadows TV series: Everyone’s favourite wryly amusing vampires return
SNAPSHOT Much like the movie, the series follows three vampires who live together: Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), and Nandor (Kayvan Novak) — the former two are husband and wife. Also living with them is a fourth vampire named Colin Robinson (Mark Proksch), who’s an ‘energy vampire’. Instead Continue Reading
Movie review: Bohemian Rhapsody
A lot gets asked of the average biopic. It must give us a penetrating insight into the life of the subject, preferably something that is unknown (easier with people no longer on the crest of the digital zeitgeist) or at least little known, it must be entertaining and recall Continue Reading
Come and sample Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion (Astérix: Le secret de la potion magique)
SNAPSHOT The druid Getafix nimbly clambers up and down oak trees to gather mistletoe in the forests surrounding the Village of the Indomitable Gauls. But one day the expert climber has a bad fall. And my, does that get him worrying! What on earth would happen if he was Continue Reading
Now this is music #116: Barrie, Prismo, girl in red, Lauv, SYML (+ Eurovision 2019 update)
You know what I like about life? It is a source of endless and amazing variety – sure there’s pain and loss and sadness but there’s also, hope, love and all kinds of very good stuff, a spectrum of human experience that finds expression in the work of these Continue Reading
Ralph Breaks the Internet clip: KnowsMore needs to take a searching chill pill
SNAPSHOT Ralph Breaks the Internet leaves Litwak’s video arcade behind, venturing into the uncharted expansive and thrilling world of the internet – which may or may not survive Ralph’s wrecking. Video game bad guy Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Sarah Continue Reading
Movie review: Cargo #Halloween2018
As you watch yet another hapless victim run fruitlessly from a ravenous pack of the undead, it is easy to think there is nothing new under the zompocalyptic sun. But its obvious from the start of Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke’s wondrously evocative and emotionally-intimate Cargo, a remark of their Continue Reading
Classic book review: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley #Halloween2018
It is an oddly pleasing thing to finally read a classic book, particularly one with the pop culture reach of Mary Shelley’s 200-year-old horror classic Frankenstein. Written, so goes the anecdote, as the result of a between Shelley, her lover and husband Percy and Lord Byron (that was not Continue Reading
Vacuum cleaners are frightening, not spiders! Right Lucas? #Halloween2018
There is simply no debate on the issue – Lucas the Spider is absolutely, ridiculously cute and adorable. CUTE *AND* ADORABLE. Even an arachnophobe like myself doesn’t find him terrifying which is why I can only agree with him when he says in this new Scary Stories video that Continue Reading
The Curious Creations of Christine McConnell is darkly delicious #Halloween2018
There is something immensely appealing about anyone who is (a) happy to subvert established tropes and sensibilities and (b) who does it flair, imagination and a willingness to challenge established ideas and remake them in their own image. Or even better, cook them. Christine McConnell, the royal icing-pumping star Continue Reading