Sesame Street is the unquestioned monarch of parody. From Game of Thrones to Harry Potter, True Blood to Pirates of the Caribbean and many more in-between, the parodies from the unquestioned originator of the gold standard in televisual children’s education have amused and instructed in equal measure, proof that Continue Reading
Movie review: Ali’s Wedding
It’s a rare thing indeed these days to walk out of a romantic comedy, more popularly referred to as rom-coms, with your head held high, a skip in your step and a strong sense that the world is a wonderful place. Too often you are left with a nagging Continue Reading
Weekend poster art: Celebrate the triumph of #WonderWoman with these wonderful posters
SNAPSHOT From Warner Bros. Pictures and DC Entertainment comes the epic action adventure starring Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Connie Nielsen and Robin Wright, directed by Patty Jenkins. Before she was Wonder Woman, she was Diana, princess of the Amazons, trained to be an unconquerable warrior. Raised on a sheltered Continue Reading
Now this is music #90: Jessica Hernandez, Coin, Grizzly Bear, VÉRITÉ, From Indian Lakes
Given music’s deserved ubiquity in our society, it’s all too easy to forget how profound an effect it can have on our lives. For those of who love music, truly deeply, madly, completely love it, it is essential, not just a way of adding colour and flavour to our day-to-day Continue Reading
It’s bloody art! Every Game of Thrones handdrawn for your flipping pleasure
A lot of people have died on Game of Thrones. A LOT. If you’re dedicated viewer of the watercooler conversation-dominating medieval saga, which is gearing for a considerably shortened two final seasons this year and next – or a standard season split into two purely by marketing/ratings and not Continue Reading
Book review: The Museum of You by Carys Bray
Facing up to grief and the many ways it ripples into your life is never an easy thing. The challenge to move on from a tragic event though grows exponentially more difficult when you’re a new dad left alone to raise your unexpected six week old daughter who, like all Continue Reading
Does Netflix have a GLOW? Why yes they do
SNAPSHOT Glow tells the fictional story of Ruth Wilder (Brie), an out-of-work, struggling actress in 1980s Los Angeles who finds one last chance for stardom when she’s thrust into the glitter and spandex world of women’s wrestling. In addition to working with 12 Hollywood misfits, Ruth also has to Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead – “Eye of the Beholder” / “The New Frontier” (S3, E1 & E2 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND LOTS OF ZOMBIES, SURVIVALISTS AND THE ODD HELICOPTER … Any idea that Fear the Walking Dead is the poor, insipid younger sibling of the The Walking Dead – not an opinion I held but one that had been widely articulated online – were put to Continue Reading
Back to Windsor Gardens: Paddington 2 trailer makes its gloriously sweet and clumsy debut
SNAPSHOT The sequel to the worldwide hit family film finds Paddington happily settled with the Brown family in Windsor Gardens, where he has become a popular member of the community, spreading joy and marmalade wherever he goes. While searching for the perfect present for his beloved Aunt Lucy’s hundredth Continue Reading
Movie review: Wonder Woman
In the much-storied, trope-heavy world of superhero movies, Marvel has, for what feels like an eternity, been the 800-pound gorilla, throwing epic, blockbuster film after epic blockbuster film at audiences, each one seemingly more successful and zeitgeist-dominating than the last, its erstwhile rival DC Comics always consigned to a Continue Reading