Let’s face it – life gets knda boring with just the one beat keeping you company all day everyday. It’s good to mix things up, keeping a multitude of beats coming and going – and no, before any of you go that way, this is not an encouraging to Continue Reading
The hero DCEU doesn’t deserve: Wonder Woman Honest Trailer
Wonder Woman, this year’s superhero smash hit, was a breath of cinematic fresh air. Featuring a kickass female hero who was capable and strong and yet demonstrably human (while, yes, still being a literal god), the film, directed by Patty Jenkins, who now has the gig for Wonder Woman Continue Reading
Finally watched: Schitt’s Creek
If you were to look at Schitt’s Creek‘s premise in isolation, you might be tempted to wonder if we haven’t been down this folksy, poorly-bitumenised road before. That’s hardly a crime of course since most TV shows owes some debt of gratitude, large or small, to their broadcast antecedents, Continue Reading
Radius: Don’t come near me or you’ll die (trailer)
SNAPSHOT Co-directed by filmmakers Caroline Labrèche and Steeve Léonard, Radius is about a guy who wakes up from an accident with no memory and an unfortunate power: if anyone ventures too close to him, they die instantly. (synopsis (c) Gizmodo) With the current deluge of superhero films showing no Continue Reading
Movie review: Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool
Society has some weirdly orthodox ideas about love. It should occur between people of roughly the same age, an older man with a younger woman (or man) is fine but the reverse, oddly and misogynistically, is not, and marriage is lauded while living together, though commonly practised, is not. Continue Reading
The John Lewis Christmas ad 2017 is here! And so the festive season begins …
Year after gloriously festive year, the Christmas ads of UK department store John Lewis are that one rare exception to featuring commercial ads on this blog. That’s largely because the ads, while obviously selling something, are far more creative than your usual “Hey we have Christmas stuff! Come and Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum” (S1, E8 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND ALIENS TOO DAMN PEACE-LOVING FOR THEIR OWN GOOD … AND PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE ELSE’S Grab your tie dyed T-shirts! Get used to eating tofu and mung beans! Make love not war and slap a peace sign and some rainbows on a Volkswagen Beetle – it’s Continue Reading
Jane Goodall and her love affair with Africa (documentary)
I have long had a fascination with the natural world. It’s hard to say where it started exactly – the books of Gerald Durrell? The documentaries of David Attenborough? – but one thing is for sure, the magazines of the National Geographic Society, which my parents subscribed to for Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: To every letter of the alphabet, a pop culture icon
Now if you’re anything like me (way older than school age), it’s highly likely you haven’t been asked to recite your ABCs or sing the Alphabet Song for quite some time. Which is a pity because two artists, Tom Whalen and Dave Perillo, who recently exhibited their work at Continue Reading
Godless: “‘Tis a fearful thing, to love what death can touch”
SNAPSHOT Set in the 1880s American West, Godless follows notorious criminal Frank Griffin (Daniels) and his gang of outlaws on a mission of revenge against Roy Goode (O’Connell), a prodigal son type who betrayed his former brotherhood. While on the run, Roy seeks refuge at the ranch of hardened, Continue Reading