SPOILERS AHEAD … AND WAY TOO MUCH MORGAN FOR ONE EPISODE … “Morgan, it’s not me, it’s you – I think I should start seeing other characters.” That, dear readers, is my imagined opening gambit in a conversation with good old Morgan (Lennie James), a character who whinged about Continue Reading
Sesame Street: How They Became Bert & Ernie (Fresh Prince of Bel Air parody)
There are many reasons to go to Sesame Street – there are 26 very good reasons I can think of straight off the bat – but one of the main ones, apart from watching my favourite monster Grover do this thing (super and otherwise), is to watch the latest Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: A Father’s Day proves being undead is no barrier to family togetherness
If there’s one thing that zombies films, long and short, cinematic and televisual, have in common, it’s that they’re not exactly warm-and-fuzzy family viewing. Sure some of the people in these shows have some touchingly intimate moments – well until they slip this mortal coil and join the multitudinous Continue Reading
Book review: The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
There’s a certain romanticism attached to the idea of time travel. While stories as diverse as Back to the Future and H G Well’s The Time Machine have offered some darkly cautionary tales, and the idea of time paradoxes have caused anyone outside of pure physics a major headache Continue Reading
Meatball cake anyone? Release your inner child with Esme & Roy
SNAPSHOT Esme (pronounced EZ-may) (Millie Davis) and her best monster friend Roy (Patrick McKenna) live in Monsterdale, and their monster sitting business is going well. When the pair’s all-purpose carrying case starts playing a jazzy Dixieland tune, Esme says ‘We’ve got a monster to watch!’” Adulthood is supposed to Continue Reading
Movie review: Book Club
There are very few people out there who would regard the Fifty Shades series of novels, plagued by poor writing, lacklustre characterisation and inert narratives as the height of great literature. They are likely the last books, especially now with their thoroughly ill-deserved time in the zeitgeist largely passed, Continue Reading
Up, up and away! Inflight safety video gets gloriously LEGO’d
I think we can all agree that the inclusion of LEGO in just about every endeavour in life makes them all better (and naturally, AWESOME), simply by the sheer presence of those joyfully-anarchic coloured bricks. That includes, and honestly this is a miracle given how odious airline travel can Continue Reading
Book review: Days of Wonder by Keith Stuart
Days of Wonder, the second book from Keith Stuart (A Boy Made of Blocks), is an inestimable joy from start to finish. The story of Tom and Hannah, a father and daughter who make a magically theatrical life for themselves in a small English town after wife and mother Continue Reading
Now this is music #111: Opia, Blair, Darwin Deez, Snow Patrol, Oliver Tree + Eurovision 2019 update
For songs to truly move you on all levels, they have to be the culmination of the perfect marriage of music and lyrics. Sure some songs get us dancing, and that’s wonderful, and others get us thinking about life, the universe and everything, but it’s the ones that combine Continue Reading
Overwhelmed by the choices on Netflix? You’re not alone
SNAPSHOT I’m gonna throw Netflix an easy one here Forrest Gump. You know what I know it was on there. I saw it on there I saw it with my own eyes and it’s gone. …speaking of TV shows that I’ve never seen because I’m not big on TV, Continue Reading