If you’re a good law-abiding member of society, and let’s face it, that’s most of us, there’s a great big give-a-finger-to-the-law visceral thrill in watching people that are not you embark on a life of crime. Much like apocalypse movies (my takeout food is here; now I shall watch Continue Reading
How should Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 have ended? Here’s how!
SNAPSHOT Since it hit theaters we started building this episode. Some How It Should Have Ended’s take longer than others and this one was one of those longer ones. One because there are so many characters in this movie we had to actually cut out some of our ideas. Continue Reading
Ring Ring to The Visitors: My top 50 ABBA songs
Hi everyone! I’m Andrew, and I’ve been an ABBA fan since somewhere around 1975-ish (date is murky – blame my failing memory!). I grew up in a small town, Alstonville, just south of Byron Bay, far enough from major cities to not really be country but so far away Continue Reading
Hello man’s best friend: Go way WAY back with Alpha
SNAPSHOT An epic adventure set in the last Ice Age. Europe, 20,000 years ago. While on his first hunt with his tribe’s most elite group, a young man is injured and left for dead. Awakening to find himself broken and alone — he must learn to survive and navigate Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: “Beyond the Wall” (S7, E6 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A LOVELY RELAXED WALK THROUGH THE SNOW … THEN RUNNING, LOTS OF RUNNING … THEN FIRE … THEN … YOU KNOW, LET’S JUST STAY HOME SHALL WE? With Lee Marvin nowhere in sight and not a samurai to be seen, Jon Snow led six intrepid Continue Reading
Back to a different future: The Jetsons get an emotionally-gritty DC Comics makeover
Following the recent trend to give much-loved Hanna-Barbera a bright, sparkly new leg-up into the current pop culture firmament, which has includes Scooby Doo, Wacky Races and The Flintstones, DC Comics has now turned its attention to The Jetsons. Presented at the time as the future equivalent of The Continue Reading
Chewing Gum: Tracey’s humorously messy take on life
Chewing Gum is quirky. Undeniably, hilariously, off-the-wall quirky. But what it also is, and this stops it from becoming a one-trick comedy pony with nothing but quirk to its quirky name, is that it has enough heart-and-soul to fill a few dramas three times as delightfully earnest. The loosely-autobiographical Continue Reading
Even more Euphoria: Eurovision Asia launches
And so it begins … Eurovision is coming to Asia! While a launch date and an exact format are yet to be determined, the launch of the official site for the Asian outpost of the great Eurovision Song Contest (brand leveraging here we come!) signals that things are moving Continue Reading
Life is quirky and miserable and just plain weird says Lemon
SNAPSHOT Lemon: a person or thing that proves to be defective, imperfect, or unsatisfactory. Isaac Lachmann is a dud. Isaac Lachmann is 40. Isaac Lachmann is a man in free fall immobilised by mediocrity. His career is going nowhere. His girlfriend of ten years is leaving him. And his Continue Reading
Book review: A General History of Oblivion by José Eduardo Agualusa
Combining both poetic lyricism and raw emotional vulnerability, A General Theory of Oblivion explores, with poignant insight and an unwillingness to wash everything in a romanticised sheen, what it is like to take a great big step away from the human race. Through the protagonist, Ludovica Fernandes, who walls Continue Reading