I am a huge fan of Grizzly Bear. So when I found an article on Entertainment Weekly where the band’s Ed Droste talked about his favourite current music, I knew there was a better than even chance I’d love a lot of what he picked. And lo, I was Continue Reading
Beware of The Walking Gingerbread! They will eat ALL your cookies #SesameStreet
One of the great, inestimable joys in life is when Sesame Street parodies a show you love. Their brilliantly-realised parodies are a joy on just about every level – they capture the look and feel of the target show while making merry with its premise, its characters and plots Continue Reading
Movie review: The Midwife
All of us, one way or the other, are the products or prisoners of decisions we make throughout our life. That’s not usually the result of careful, well-thought out planning, of course, save for the those of us brandishing five-year plans and a peculiar sense of self-wrought manifest destiny; Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “Lethe” (S1, E6 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A CANDY-COATED NEBULA THAT MAKES YOU THINK OF “LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS” … NO, REALLY … Imagine being so intimately connected with someone that you can feel their pain and distress over vast distances of space. Such is the bond though that exists Continue Reading
What comes after the zombie apocalypse? We find out in Less Than Human #Halloween
SNAPSHOT In the aftermath of a zombie outbreak, zombies are cured and exiled to secluded camps. There has been talk about rehabilitating post-zombies back into society. Steve, the journalist reporting on the case, thinks the zombies still pose a threat to society. He ventures into one of these camps Continue Reading
Release the demogorgon … again! Thoughts on Stranger Things S2 #Halloween
Stranger Things 2 is a slayer of pedestrian sequels. Ducking and weaving past the sophomore curse like a demogorgon on the hunt – or you’re Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matazrazzo), a “demo-dog” (yeah, no, it didn’t catch on) – the sequel to the Duffer Brothers zeitgeist-busting, watercooler-overwhelming show of 2016 Continue Reading
#Halloween cartoon: Guillermo del Toro’s Treehouse of Horror Couch Gag #Simpsons
Now this is how you mark Halloween everyone! Particularly if you’re Matt Groening and you want your then-latest Treehouse of Horror intro – this was for the 2013 special – to include everything from zombies to mummies to mutants and apocalyptic visions of a hellish future. Hire master storyteller Continue Reading
George Saunders’s Lincoln in the Bardo is a genuinely startling novel (curated article)
Adam Kelly, University of York I am someone who reads, teaches, and writes about contemporary American fiction for a living. Knowing this, you might expect that fresh, experimental novels would constantly be arriving on my desk, that I would be inundated with literary innovation. But it is in fact Continue Reading
Meow … BOO! Simon’s Cat finds some creepy crawlies #Halloween
SNAPSHOT A curious cat uncovers a coven of creepy crawlies. Simon’s Cat FINALLY gets into the attic and gives Simon a spooky surprise! (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Gotta say I’m with Simon on the sheer evilness of spiders. Forget the zombies, ghosts and demented sprites – it’s spiders that Continue Reading
Monster in the Mirror: Grover delightfully goes all wubba wubba wubba woo woo woo
Grover, my favourite monster in the world – yeah sorry Godzilla and the Demagorgon, you’re not even in the running – is a lot braver than most people think. Sure he may be spooked by monsters at the end of books, and get a little nervous when he is Continue Reading