If you ever get the feeling that life is a messy business, guessed at imprecisely, executed randomly and full of uncertainty and self-recrimination, then there’s a good chance you’ll find a lot to identify with in Josef Hader’s comedy Wild Mouse (Wilde Maus). Leveraging the general sense of current Continue Reading
Wonder Woman goes retro in this glorious 8-bit trailer
I love the new Wonder Woman movie. I also love 8-bit representations of, well, pretty much anything. Combining the two is thus akin to pouring the nectar of the pop culture gods down upon me and allowing me to luxuriate in it. It takes me way back when, the Continue Reading
Finally watched … A Royal Night Out (movie review)
Using history for narrative inspiration can be a double-edged storytelling sword. Granted you have a deep well on impossibly dramatic stories to dwell on, larger-than-life figures and epically heroic outcomes, all of which are custom made for big screen adaptation; however there is also the problem of historical elements Continue Reading
Come along for a glorious ride on Olaf’s Frozen Adventure!
One of the many joys of being an uncle to four quite delightful young nieces and nephews is the chance it gives me to go and watch a host of animated films that might otherwise pass me by. Of course, I go and see some of them anyway, but Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead – “TEOTWAWKI” (S3, E3 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A RATHER LONG PRECIPITOUS DROP TO A ZOMBIE PIT FAR BELOW … You may not think that you can prepare for the End of the World As We Know it – both a kickass R.E.M. song and the long form version of tonight’s acronymic title Continue Reading
Can David Tennant calm your cats and dogs? He can and it’s purrr-fectly marvellous
SNAPSHOT Pet behaviourist Karen Wild and vet Robert White-Adams (with a little help from David Tennant) talk about the science behind the first films for cats and dogs designed to help calm them around fireworks and loud noises. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) This is a genius idea. Bring together Continue Reading
Book review: Uprooted by Naomi Novik
There is something deliciously subversive about Noami Novik’s Uprooted, an epic fantasy novel that seems to promise something sweetly benign in the first few chapters, before giddily defying expectations every step of its uniformly excellent way. The book starts out innocently enough with the protagonist and narrator Agnieszka, a 17 Continue Reading
Want to get close to aliens? Time to get yourself Ghosted!
SNAPSHOT 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 — all while uncovering Continue Reading
Stargate Universe lives on with a new comic resolving that bittersweet cliffhanger
SNAPSHOT Stargate Universe followed a exploration team on an ancient spaceship called Destiny, and their attempts to get back to Earth from billions of light years away. In the season two finale, the decision is made to put Destiny on a three-year, faster-than-light jump while the crew goes into Continue Reading
Sesame Street parodies strike again: Witness the tasty fun of Orange is the New Snack
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