SNAPSHOT Kids try 100 years of cookies with special guest Cookie Monster including mallomars, sugar cookies, nutter butters, macarons, and more. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) If you wanted to learn everything you could be about the last 100 years of cookies, and why wouldn’t you, then the person to Continue Reading
Book review: A Portable Shelter by Kirsty Logan
All of come to the realisation, at one point or another, that the business of living is not for the fainthearted. What looks from the relatively uncluttered vantage point of childhood to be a straightforward undertaking, soon proves itself to be wildly unpredictable, immensely complicated and prone to as Continue Reading
Fascinating fan theories: How The Walking Dead may end
All good things must come to an end. Even the undead shambling across the decaying remains of civilisation items. But while Robert Kirkman says he knows (of course) how the comic strip/TV series will come to an end, and there is high likelihood they will end in different ways, he Continue Reading
Love is coming to town again on Netflix
SNAPSHOT It’s worth a shot. Mickey and Gus face commitment and all that comes with it as they attempt to bring order to their chaotic lives. (synopsis via Netflix) Falling in love is thrilling. Nerve-wracking, crazy, unsettling, glorious, and if all goes well, something special for the long haul. Continue Reading
It’s a Bright world out there – but not as you know it (teaser trailer)
If you’ve ever watched Lord of the Rings, and if not, why not, explain yourself this instant, you’ll be well aware that in that far off and mystical land, humans, elves, orcs and dwarves all exist together in, well not perfect harmony exactly (that’d be the Disney version folks) Continue Reading
Now this is music #84: Perish, Melvv, Mako & Morgan Page, Jarina De Marco, AOE
One of the great joys of listening to lots of music are the multiple perspectives granted to you by artists who have struggled long and hard with some aspects of life and put their thoughts and heartfelt emotions into their songs. For anyone of us who struggle to make Continue Reading
Weekday pop art: The whimsically beautiful visuals of Legion
One of the most striking things about FX’s new Marvel series Legion, quite apart from its imaginative out-of-the-box storytelling and its intriguing characters, is its strikingly unique visuals. Mixing together a myriad of influences from Wes Anderson’s whimsically quirky rich colour palettes to wacky 1960s films like Yellow Submarine Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “New Best Friends” / “Hostiles and Calamities” (S7, E10 & E11)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND PEOPLE WHO ARE RATHER TOO INTIMATELY ENGAGED WITH THEIR GARBAGE* This is an apocalyptically Dickensian tales of two episodes. One, “New Best Friends”, played reasonably strongly to The Walking Dead‘s strengths, giving us an interesting character study of how far study of how far Father Continue Reading
Will being told the minor key way to Sesame Street make you happily sad? It just might
One of the most noticeable and much-loved parts of Sesame Street, which is currently in the midst of its 47th season and now broadcast on HBO, is its extraordinarily upbeat theme song which asks eager boys and girls (and let’s be honest more than a few adults) “Can you Continue Reading
Book review: The Emily Dilemma by Guy Sigley
Barney Conroy is the literary Frank Spencer of our time. For those too young to remember the classic British sitcom Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em, Frank Spencer was the hapless but well-meaning protagonist who despite his best intentions, and there was no doubting the goodness of his heart, always Continue Reading