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
Book review: Netherspace by Andrew Lane and Nigel Foster
Among humanity’s many contradictory traits, one that stands out is our ability to romanticise just about anything. Whether it’s things as mundane as upcoming holidays or an album release by our favourite artist, or idealistic hopes for a better future, one that dwarfs our oft-blighted present, we are ever-ready Continue Reading
“What is you smokin’ Bran?”: Even with winter here, #GoT can still have some fun
In the grim, icebound world of HBO’s megahit Game of Thrones, life is a very serious business. How can it not be? Winter has finally come – brr! – White Walkers, led by the vengeful Night King, are on the march, it’s like Westeros Idol out there with everyone Continue Reading