SNAPSHOT This is the story of a little girl called Bridget who loves to bounce. When her mum and dad buy her a trampoline for Christmas, they soon discover that she isn’t the only one with a passion for jumping. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Christmas is almost upon us Continue Reading
Movie review: A Monster Calls
There is nothing quiet, civil or tidy about grief. It is, in every way you can imagine, disruptive, loud and dark, filled with a thousand regrets, aching, terrible loss and the hollowing sense that comes with the sheer futility of trying to hold onto a loved one who is Continue Reading
Missed it by that much: 29 TV and film spin-offs that almost happened
So near … and yet so very far. As Mike Rugnetta from Mental Floss’s List View details, that’s been the fate of many a spin-off proposed for popular TV shows and movies. You’d think that someone proposing a spin-off from say Friends, Cheers or The Wire would be greeted with Continue Reading
Book review: The Heart of Henry Quantum by Pepper Harding
It has been said, quite possibly once too often, that all good things must come to an end. But what if, wonders the titular protagonist in The Heart of Henry Quantum, if they were never all that good to begin with? Of course Henry has always told himself that Continue Reading
Road to Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life #9: “Wedding Bell Blues” (S5, E13)
As Gilmore Girls continued on its quirky merry way into its later seasons, Amy Sherman-Palladino’s show gradually got darker and darker. Not The Wire or Sopranos darker obviously because frankly where would be the fun in that, but darker nonetheless, with a willingness to leave characters hanging in the Continue Reading
Freeze Big Bird! Sesame Street takes up the mannequin challenge
Demonstrating once again that they are hip to the viral groove, Sesame Street has taken up the Mannequin Challenge, which according to the good people at Wikipedia is “a viral Internet video trend where people remain frozen in action like mannequins while a video is recorded, usually with the Continue Reading
Saturday morning cartoons: Hong Kong Phooey
Hong Kong Phooey is yet another of Hanna-Barbera’s long line of cartoon creations that seems to have had a far longer on-screen life than he actually did. In truth, the entire series which is comprised of 16 episodes which in turn broke down into 2 sub-episodes, only ran for a Continue Reading
First impressions: Love (E1 “It Begins” and E2 “One Long Day”)
It was ABBA who once sang, in one of their more obscure early releases, that “Love Isn’t Easy (But It Sure is Hard Enough)”. In a nutshell it summed up everything that many of us feel about love. On the surface love is all wine and roses, romantic dinners with Continue Reading
Escape into an exotic universe in Luc Besson’s Valerian (teaser trailer)
SNAPSHOT Under directive from their Commander (Clive Owen), Valerian and Laureline embark on a mission to the breathtaking intergalactic city of Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis comprised of thousands of different species from all four corners of the universe. Alpha’s seventeen million inhabitants have converged over time- uniting their talents, Continue Reading
Movie review: Arrival
Given the state of the world at the moment, awash as it is with IS insurgency, Brexit, the radicalised far right voting in extremist presidents in place as far removed as Turkey, the Philippines and even the United States, the idea of aliens arriving with a message of unified, Continue Reading