Apart from Laurel & Hardy and Abbott & Costello, my favourite comedic couple in the world is French and Saunders. After meeting as students in 1978 at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London, Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders have gone onto stellar careers, reaching a collective zenith Continue Reading
Comic book review: Giant Days
Giant Days is one of those comics you fall in love with almost instantly. To be honest, instantly. How can you not? The three main characters – Esther de Groot, Susan Ptolemy and Daisy Wooton, all first year students at the University of Sheffield when the series opens – are Continue Reading
Take a deep breath! Here comes Young Sheldon
SNAPSHOT The show is the story of a young Sheldon Cooper (Ian Armitage), a character Emmy Award-winning actor Jim Parsons made famous in the long-running series. The series is narrated by Parsons as the adult Sheldon, and takes on some of the stories about his childhood that he’s told Continue Reading
Book review: Get Well Soon by Marie-Sabine Roger
Reading a book after watching the movie or TV show is always an interesting exercise (the same applies, but in different ways, to the reverse). Not necessarily because one will be good and one will be bad, but purely because it is always fascinating to see how two creative Continue Reading
Now this is music – get your groove on! Loote, Elohim and Whethan, Opia, MY, Stanaj
Let’s face it – life can be absolutely brilliant and gorgeous, unstoppably, fantastically wonderful with cherries on top; but it also be beigely uniform and onerously frantic, a thousand demands piled one on top of the other until you feel like you’re about to break. Before you reach that Continue Reading
Life is hilariously bleak in O-Town: Rocko’s Modern Life in comics
Fresh from news that ’90s animation stalwart, Rocko is coming back for a very modern TV special, where he has to contend with all the weirdass blessing and curses of modern life, comes the welcome announcement that the humorously well-intentional but life-inept wallaby from O-Town is being given a Continue Reading
Movie review: After Louie
For many people, the past is just that – the past. An influence, a set of memories, a formative influence on who they are but nothing more than that; creatures of the present, however weighed down by what came before to greater or lesser degrees, they exist now, happy Continue Reading
Big Mouth: When the hormone monsters strike #Netflix
SNAPSHOT A surreal animated comedy series from real-life best friends Nick Kroll (Kroll Show, The League) and Andrew Goldberg (Family Guy) that explores teenage adventures in puberty. The series uses the voice talents of John Mulaney, Nick Kroll, Maya Rudolph, Jason Mantzoukas, Jordan Peele, Fred Armisen, Jenny Slate, and Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “La Serpiente” (S3, E11 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE BASEST PARTS OF HUMANITY, BOTH COLORECTAL AND OF THE SOUL … “La Serpiente” was a really shitty episode. No, I mean, really … shit everywhere as Madison (Kim Dickens), Victor (Colman Domingo) and Qaletaqa Walker (Michael Greyeyes) followed the shhhhh! super-secret squirrel route into Continue Reading
Deck the modern festive halls: The Man Who Invented Christmas (trailer)
If you have paid but a moment’s notice to this blog, it will be patently obvious that I love Christmas. LOVE. IT. The songs. The tree. The lights. The bonhomie and goodwill. The presents. The spirit of giving. It all adds to what the song joyfully describes as “the Continue Reading