When I look back on all the many ways my parents tried to get me to behave – like I was ever naughty! Actually as an eldest child I behaved really well … yeah, yeah, I know opportunity lost – I have to laugh at the lengths they went Continue Reading
The beat goes on: Trolls explodes with season 2 colour and fun
SNAPSHOT The newest season follows Poppy (Amanda Leighton), Branch (Skylar Astin) and the Snack Pack as they live it up with all new glitter-rific festivities and adventures, like taking part in the Annual Party Games, battling in an epic village-wide pillow fight, and rapping in an open mic compliment Continue Reading
Book review: How to be Happy by Eva Woods
In this self-actualised age in which we live, we are sold the idea over and over that we can have anything we want if we just want it hard enough. Kind of like wearing down the universe until it caves in and grants us undying happiness, peace, contentment, and Continue Reading
Script to screen: Bringing Wall-E to memorable life
(image courtesy IMP Awards) Pixar have long been the masters of creating meaningful, evocative storytelling that touches the soul with sometimes the simplest of gestures or words. One of their greatest achievements is WALL-E, the story of a lone refuse clean up robot left behind on a disastrously polluted Continue Reading
Stargate Origins: Episodes 4 & 5 (review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THREE MOONS! COUNT ‘EM – THREE! Ever had those moments when you’re in way over your head, when everything you thought you knew is of little-to-no-use and there are three moons overhead and not one? OK perhaps that last one is a little outside the Continue Reading
Lost in created worlds: The most beautiful animation scenes in movie history
One of the most appealing aspects of animation is the ability it gives storytellers to take us to a breathtakingly diverse range of worlds, times and places that might otherwise elude us. While CGI has not caught up to animation’s imaginative possibilities in many ways, there is still something Continue Reading
Movie review: Evening Shadows
There is something deeply and liberatingly powerful about finally owning who you are. Finally being your “authentic self”, to dip into Oprah’s pool of reassuring words of New Age-tinged wisdom, not only quell those internal battles that come from living a double life, but free you to accomplish all Continue Reading
Cluck cluck cluck zoom! Blast off with Space Chickens in Space!
Why should pigs have all the fun in space, right? Back in the ’70s, and yes, I remember when it was all on TV, The Muppet Show gave us Pigs in Space! and behold the world was a wondrous, wacky and very funny, over-the-top place. Now lo all these Continue Reading
Farewell to my favourite Interrupting Rabbit: Emma Chamber dies aged 53 #RIP
One of the purest, most lovely memories of my childhood, is watching some of the classic BBC sitcoms of the time such as The Good Life, Dad’s Army and To the Manor Born with my family. Brilliantly-written and supremely well-acted, these sitcoms were also warm, silly and comforting, an entrée Continue Reading
Movie review: Dating My Mother
It would be nice to think that navigating your way through the twists and turns of life, with all its contrary elements, would get easier as you get older. But as mother and son, widow Joan (Kathryn Erbe) and Danny (Patrick Reilly), discover in Mike Roma’s feature debut, Dating Continue Reading