When you’re growing up, you don’t really have the insight or emotional maturity to fully understand why something matters to you or why you like it so much. But when you reacquaint yourself with a much-loved childhood book series like Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix, originally written by René Continue Reading
Movie review: Spider-Man Homecoming
Superheroes are, by and large, a fairly serious bunch. Hailing from backgrounds character-formingly full of death and trauma (hello Batman, Superman), given powers which unexpectedly and absolutely alter the trajectory of their life (Deadpool, the titular here of this film) or simply born into greatness and a nobility of Continue Reading
A grand and glorious epic: All the Game of Thrones S7 trailers in one dragon-sized video
Game of Thrones has always had a lushly cinematic quality, one that is likely to be come even more pronounced given report of movie-length episodes in season 7, which starts 16 July, and season 8, which lands in 2018. To underscore just how big, vast and visual the landmark Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “The Unveiling / Children of Wrath” (S3, E7 & E8 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … NOT TO MENTION POOR DECISION-MAKING, A NAKED GRAB FOR POWER AND A SHIPWRECKED YACHT As showcases for humanity go, I think we can all agree that the zombie apocalypse is not exactly anyone’s finest hour. In the double mid-season finale episodes, “The Unveiling” and “Children of Continue Reading
Book review: Feed by Mira Grant
It is generally agreed that being in the middle of a zombie apocalypse is something you should avoid at all costs, what with the end of civilisation, degradation of humanity and threat of imminent death. But what if the apocalypse came and went, and left society mostly functioning, compromised, Continue Reading
Love for the long haul: One woman’s cartoon love letters to her partner
There’s a popular perception out there that longterm relationships are the height (or depth) of drudgery and boredom. And while to some extent, yes, the novelty does wear off, with that loss of gloss and initial excitement excellent grist to the storytelling mill, the reality is that for many Continue Reading
Hope so high and … not? The 5 Stages of Watching a Spider-Man Reboot
Step right back! Step right up everyone! There’s a new Spider-Man movie in cinemas! With a new actor – Tom Holland! – and a whole new approach! What what? Really?! Yes, really. By all accounts it’s pretty damn good, but the fact remains that it is yet another reimagining/reboot/re-whatever Continue Reading
What inspired Inside Out? One man and his daughter and a bundle of new emotions #MichaelTucker
SNAPSHOT For example, the question that led to Inside Out came when the film’s director, Pete Docter, noticed something about his daughter. According to Meg LeFauve, who wrote Inside Out with Pete Docter: “The director, he had a daughter.And she was so happy all the time, and was so Continue Reading
Movie review: Baby Driver
If you were to turn down the volume on the trailer for Edgar Wright’s latest inventive piece of cinema, Baby Driver, it would look, for all intents and purposes, like a good old fashioned crime caper. Car chases through tight streets, down sprawling freeways and even within claustrophobically-small carparks, a Continue Reading
All in this together: New Will & Grace S9 promo and poster
When news broke back in May that Will & Grace would be coming back to NBC, its ancestral home where it played a huge, very funny role in helping the world at large to better understand what it means to be gay in today’s world, everyone (well, mostly everyone) Continue Reading