The Rose Main Reading Room of The New York Public Library is an impressive space. The beautifully-appointed cavernous room is full of reading desks, a studious atmosphere, thousands of library users during opening hours, and as you’d expect, a titanic number of books (over 52,000 to be exact). It is Continue Reading
Dug from UP IRL: We have only just met him but already we love him!
There is much to love about Pixar’s UP, a film which has given us one of the most poignant opening sequences to any film ever. One of the most memorable characters from a film with a slew of them is Dug, the adorably sweet, non-thugish canine henchman of Charles F. Continue Reading
Eulogies for the living come humorously alive in My 90-Year-Old Roommate
It’s one of the great truisms of life that, Pulitzer Prize winners and J. K. Rowling aside, writers don’t take on their craft as a profession to make money. In fact, pretty much any writer worth their blank Word page existential angst will tell you that they have to Continue Reading
Movie review: Sing
Do pigs dream of escaping domestic drudgery and letting their inner diva run free? Can porcupines rock their inner Chrissy Amphlett every chance they get? And is it possible for the son of gorilla career criminal to ever been anything more than a deeply-reluctant getaway driver? If these and Continue Reading
Netflix my fill … and then some! My favourite TV shows of 2016
Another year, another deluge of TV shows delivered on multiple platforms that can be watched night and day, in single episodes or a hygiene-challenging bingefest of epic proportions. As ever, I am torn between the giddy delight of countless, immersive options straddling an enticing array of genres and a Continue Reading
Bad Lip Reading reveals Yoda’s greatest fear … and it’s not meeting Darth Vader after dark
Seagulls are crazy critters. Endlessly ravenous or so it appears, they stalk you like the paparazzi after a film star, eager for anything you wish to discard especially if you’re eating hot chips (fries) on a sunny summer’s day. They are cute and annoying all at once but did Continue Reading
Turn over another page. My favourite books of 2016
I have loved reading books since before I can remember. Whenever it started, and I suspect it was on the many nights when my mum or dad would read to me when I was toddler, I fell in love with the written word, loving the way words sounded, the Continue Reading
Uh-oh it’s the infected undead! Fight ’em 8-bit The Walking Dead style
As we wait for the second half of season 7 of The Walking Dead to shuffle onto our screens in February next year, you wish to spend some time re-living the far away days, at least as far as storyline and still-present staff members are concerned, of season 1 Continue Reading
Play it again, Sam! My favourite songs of 2016
I cannot imagine a life without music. It is quite literally the soundtrack to my day, adding lustre to the banality of commuting, providing melodic breaks to otherwise frantic work days and making parties, dinners and just time alone that much richer with atmosphere-enhancing tunes. And unlike many people Continue Reading
Movie review: Moana
Perfection is a quality much sought after in our world but very rarely realised; however with Moana, a superlative animated feature film by just about any measure, Disney has come impressively close to this well-nigh impossible goal. Directed by Ron Musker and John Clements, Moana is the product of extensive Continue Reading