SNAPSHOT In the heartwarming live-action adventure Disney’s Christopher Robin, the young boy who loved embarking on adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood with a band of spirited and loveable stuff animals, has grown up and lost his way. Now it is up to his childhood friends to venture into Continue Reading
Mamma Mia here we go again! ABBA set to release two new songs
Ever wonder as an older adult, and yes that is where I find myself these days, wondering if it is ever possible to recapture the thrill and excitement of youth? Well, it is possible I have recently discovered, very recently in fact with news that ABBA have recorded and plan Continue Reading
Movie review: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The past is something you never really escape. It embeds itself in you, shapes you, moulds you and lodges itself irretrievably and irrevocably in your memories, with forgetting, true forgetting, never really on the cards. That’s not always a bad thing since our past are usually a mix of Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The whimsical vivacity of Deux Escargots S’ent Vont (Two Snails Set Off)
Oh, this film is a whimsical joy! Based on a classic children’s poem by Jacques Prévert entitled “Chanson des escargots qui vont à l’enterrement (Song of the snails who are on their way to a funeral)”, this short film, Deux Escargots S’ent Vont (Two Snails Set Off), by Romain Segaud Continue Reading
Book review: The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence
Alex Woods is a quirky guy. A very quirky guy. But then that’s what makes the protagonist of The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence such an endearing, affecting delight. Struck by a 2kg meteorite at the age of 10 when it comes hurtling, rather destructively, through the Continue Reading
The Weatherman: The Future’s Only Hope … Has A Zero Percent Chance
Memories are fallible things. We forget where we put the keys. What day our niece’s birthday falls. Where we hid that present that would be perfect for Aunty Jean? But being responsible for genocide? Yeah, no, that, THAT, is something you’d definitely remember. Unless you’re Martian weatherman, Nathan Bright, Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Another Day in the Diamond” (S4, E2 review)
SPOILERS, MUCH LIKE ZOMBIES, ABOUND … Do zombies like to meditate? Likely not, what with all that constant rambling and shambling and stumbling aimlessly going on; but Fear the Walking Dead? Oh, it likes it a great deal. After a worrying first episode, where the main cast of Fear were Continue Reading
What do dogs see on TV? Not what you think they’re seeing!
SNAPSHOT …regardless of breed, what dogs see on the screen is definitely not what we see. Dogs’ visual systems are much more sensitive to flickering, which helps them perceive movement more efficiently. …what might look to you like a vibrant, colorful image could be pretty “meh” for your dog….Instead Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2018: Week 6 – San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia, Sweden, The Netherlands, Ukraine
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
Fast bullets and a really serious bad guy: Deadpool 2 drops its final trailer
SHAPSHOT Deadpool forming a team of mercenaries and mutants to protect a mysterious kid (Hunt for the Wilderpeople’s Julian Dennison) from the arrival of a hardass cyborg from the future, Thanos. (synopsis (c) io9) Ladies and gentleman behold – the Merc With the Mouth aka Wade Wilson aka Deadpool Continue Reading