One of the great drawbacks of being a pop culture consuming omnivore is that I don’t have nearly enough time to read as I would like to. Movies happen at set times at the cinema and so I must be there or miss out, music can be listened to Continue Reading
A Monster Calls: If no one sees you, are you really there at all?
SNAPSHOT A Monster Calls is the story of Conor, a boy who faces the challenge of a very ill mother, school bullies and the isolation, or “Invisibility” the situation creates. In the vein of Where The Wild Things Are, Conor escapes into the world of fantasy and imagination, conjuring Continue Reading
Re-watching the big glowing box: The 10 TV shows I loved most in 2015
I am a man caught between two screens – a big cinematic one and a much smaller but ever-increasingly influential and powerful one. The tug of war is intense but I find myself drawn again and again to the powerful, funny, clever, engaging stories television tells, especially in what Continue Reading
Bring on the anti-hero! Deadpool debuts two new trailers
SNAPSHOT Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a Continue Reading
Re-play the music please maestro: The 10 songs I loved most in 2015
Music makes my world go round. Well, granted so do movies, TV shows and books, and big fat slices of caramel cheesecake, but music is the one thing that goes with me pretty everywhere, the soundtrack to my life if you will. It’s there with me when I am Continue Reading
On holidays in space … wish you were here: iambit’s Postcards From Space take you out of this world
Ah space, the final vacation frontier. Who wouldn’t want to get away to all those wide open spaces, those endless starlit nights, those plants teeming with fun and adventure. (For the purposes of this giddily happy intergalactic holiday post, let’s pretend that things like Alien xenomorphs and Imperial Stromtroopers aren’t Continue Reading
Re-heating the popcorn: The 10 movies I loved most in 2015
I really should live in a cinema. One also equipped with wall-to-wall bookcases, a Sonos sound system and a TV that broadcasts cable, free-to-air and streaming services, but a cinema nonetheless. Not because of my ever-growing popcorn and choc top addiction – this is probably not the place to discuss Continue Reading
Merry pop culture Christmas to all … and to all a good movie-watching, TV-bingeing, music-listening, book-reading night
It’s Christmas time again and that means, as you well know, that it’s some time for festive pop culture fun. Actually, pop culture fun is a year round things and I’d like to take this opportunity to thank you for sticking around and reading the many posts hat have Continue Reading
Love Actually and the touching deleted scenes that never made it into the film
Love, Actually is deservedly one of those films that makes an appearance every Christmas come what may. Featuring eight interwoven couples whose own stories come with humour and special poignant meaning, the festive rom-com by Richard Curtis, is a touching reminder that everyone has a story, and that what Continue Reading
Movie review: Suffragette
Humanity, by and large, has a very short memory. In no time at all, rights won with blood, sweat and tears, and a wilful and necessary disregard of the established order, are seen as near ubiquitous and entirely natural. While that is good in one sense, and reflects how Continue Reading