SNAPSHOT Mia Wasikowska is joined by Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, as well as franchise newbies Rhys Ifans as the Mad Hatter’s father and Sacha Baron Cohen as Time. Tim Burton returns in a Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Here’s Not Here” (S6, E4 review)
* SPOILERS, AND THE PATH TO SELF-ENLIGHTENMENT LIE AHEAD * “Here’s Not Here” was a remarkable episode in many ways. It wasn’t simply that it followed last week’s action-packed, high-adrenaline episode “Thank You” in which – SPOILER! – Glenn died/did not die/got way too close to a dumpster for Continue Reading
Simon’s Cat is Off to the Vet … and he ain’t happy about it
SNAPSHOT In this brand new book we see Simon’s Cat face any feline’s most dreaded scenario – he’s off to the vet. And he’s not at all happy about it. The book shares its theme with the first ever full colour Simon’s Cat 12 minute longer format film (to Continue Reading
65 years Charlie Brown! New extended trailer for The Peanuts Movie covers a lot of ground
SNAPSHOT Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the rest of the beloved “Peanuts” gang make their big-screen debut, like they’ve never been seen before, in state of the art 3D animation. Charlie Brown, the world’s most beloved underdog, embarks upon an epic and heroic quest, while his best pal, Continue Reading
All the feels and then some: UP in real life
It’s rare indeed that life is anywhere near as wonderful as that which people imagine when they create their art. That’s not to say that life is unremittingly awful; simply that it rarely is as perfectly realised as that which we conjure up. But in the case of the Continue Reading
Halloween books: Who’s the scariest monster in literature?
So who’s the scariest of them all? Well, when it comes to monsters in literature that is. No one doubt there will be as many opinions as there are monsters – as a great big scaredy cat, I will happily admit to finding them all quite scary in their Continue Reading
Halloween weekend pop art: 7 stunning monster posters from Universal
If you were out on a dark and stormy night, the last creatures you want to run into would be the likes of Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Mummy, The Bride of Frankenstein, Frankenstein, The Creature From the Black Lagoon and The Invisible Man. They are pretty argue down Continue Reading
Halloween movie review: Crimson Peak
It is impossible to watch Guillermo del Toro’s latest gothic horror masterpiece, Crimson Peak, without wondering if there is more to be feared from the living than the dead. It is a question that Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska), would have more cause to muse on than most, after her Continue Reading
Halloween short: Dream a little dream of Freddy Krueger
OK so here’s two things you don’t usually see together – Freddy Krueger from the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and 1931 song “Dream a Little Dream of Me”, recorded by among many others Mama Cass Elliot of The Mamas and the Papas. But in this highly entertaining Continue Reading
Now this is music #57: Max and the Moon, Postiljonen, Cheat Codes, Lost Kings, Philco Fiction
Light and dark. They go together more often than we’d like to admit in life, the melancholic sitting cheek-by-jowl with the ecstatic, and so it makes perfect sense that it would find expression in music. The five bands and duos features know this lesson of life well and have distilled Continue Reading