SNAPSHOT Lemon: a person or thing that proves to be defective, imperfect, or unsatisfactory. Isaac Lachmann is a dud. Isaac Lachmann is 40. Isaac Lachmann is a man in free fall immobilised by mediocrity. His career is going nowhere. His girlfriend of ten years is leaving him. And his Continue Reading
Book review: A General History of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa
Combining both poetic lyricism and raw emotional vulnerability, A General Theory of Oblivion explores, with poignant insight and an unwillingness to wash everything in a romanticised sheen, what it is like to take a great big step away from the human race. Through the protagonist, Ludovica Fernandes, who walls Continue Reading
Drink cranberry juice! There’s a New New New New Doctor in town #LeighLahav
You may recall that the BBC recently announced that the Doctor would be regenerating from Peter Capaldi’s distinctly male form to a – gasp! horror! (fake gasp and horror obviously on my part) – woman, specifically Jodie Whittaker, in this year’s Christmas special. Quite why this was such a Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: “Eastwatch” (S7, E5 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A WHOLE LOT OF SNARK HUNTING AND POWER PLAYING … Depending on your pop culture references, and these days most of us are a giddy, postmodern swirl of just about everything, “Eastwatch”, a reference to one of the gates watching the snowy nothingness north of Continue Reading
Saturday morning cartoons: Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor
Created by Alex Toth, an American cartoonist whose work successfully bridged the worlds of comics books and Hanna-Barbera cartoons (Space Ghost, Herculoids), Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor was a sci-fi animated series where the title inversely reflected the weighting of the protagonists featured within. In each episode of Continue Reading
Would a world without people be Angelic? We’re about to find out
SNAPSHOT “Debuting next month from Image Comics, Angelic is set in a future that humans have long since been erased from, leaving nothing but ruins and the highly intelligent animals they experimented on in their wake. One such tribe of animals is a group of religious-winged monkeys, one of Continue Reading
Now this is music #94: PVRIS, Chase & Status and Blossoms, Goo Goo Dolls, Ainslie Wills, Akouo ft. Montaigne
Done right, and thankfully so much of it is, music should move you deeply and completely and wholly. Mind, body and sould should be engaged; you should never hear a song and just go “Oh … that’s nice.” Upbeat songs should move you to dance or turn a dark Continue Reading
Wes Anderson and the fine art of cooking up an artistic storm
Cooking is in. Probably because eating, which has never really gone out of style because #starvation, remains very firmly in. And since cooking is in, in this digital age, that means cooking tutorials are in. But what if the likes of Wes Anderson or Quentin Tarantino joined the lifestyle Continue Reading
Movie review: The Big Sick
There was time, lo many days, nay years ago, when romantic comedies burst forth upon the cinematic firmament, fully-formed, delightfully-engaging, possessed of a fairytale-esque romantic sensibility and a sense that life, for all its many banal obstacles and nasty stumbling blocks, could actually be something quite magical. The cynic Continue Reading
Head for The Bureau Underground: Time to get Ghosted again!
SNAPSHOT A new comedy from 20th Century Fox Television, 3 Arts Entertainment, and Gettin’ Rad Productions, a cynical skeptic (Craig Robinson), and a genius “true believer” in the paranormal (Adam Scott), are recruited by a secret government agency to look into the rampant “unexplained” activity in Los Angeles — Continue Reading