The novelty of watching a movie for the first time, particularly one you end up loving and adoring more than popcorn itself, never grows old. But alas watching those favourite movies most certainly does. It’s not that you don’t enjoy re-watching them – though in my world that’s a Continue Reading
From Bowie to Bieber: The under-appreciated art of the music video (curated article)
The spectacular release of Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade earlier this year, and the critical response to it, has fleetingly put the music video in the spotlight. For a ubiquitous and influential art form, music videos tend to be easily dismissed and under-analysed, which means it took something as extreme Continue Reading
What’s going on? What’s happening? Will and Grace cast (temporarily) reunite
In news that thrilled the hearts of almost everyone – TIME Magazine was NOT a fan let’s be honest – the cast of Will and Grace (1998-2006) reunited for an all-too-brief 10 minute episode all about the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Centred on Will (Eric McCormack), Grace (Debra Messing), Continue Reading
Saturday morning cartoons: The Addams Family
Way back in the dim, dark days of my childhood, I somehow missed how often episodes of my favourite TV cartoons were repeated. Not surprising in one way since (a) I was a child and the immediacy and fun of something was the preoccupation, not a statistical repeating pattern – Continue Reading
Movie review: Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children
The inherent ability of the ordinary to turn, without warning, into the extraordinary and take everything else along with it in a status quo-unsettling melee, sits at the centre of a great many stories, especially those in the fantasy and young adult genres. Inherent in these sorts of narratives is Continue Reading
Just dance! TV show characters get their groove on in Timberlake mashup
A deftly executed mashup is a viral thing of great joy and so it is with the latest superlative effort from What’s the Mashup? which blends dance footage from 75 television shows ranging from Friends to Sponge Bob Square Pants, Mr. Bean to Happy Days and The Simpsons to Continue Reading
Book review: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Jason Dessen has it all. Well, almost everything. He hasn’t even come closing to realising the impressive potential he showed at university as one of the most promising astro-physicists to come along in years, a man destined for great things. But while that nags at him, and he wonders Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The animated sweetness of The Wishgranter
Even the best of us get jaded. It doesn’t matter how exciting our jobs are, or how emotionally-fulfilling our relationships might be, or whether we are engaged in the most altruistic of earthly pursuits, at one point or another ennui will dejectedly raise its seen-it-all head and wonder at Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Date of Death” (S2, E13 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF FOOLISH ACTIONS, GOOD AND BAD … AND FRAT BOYS WITHOUT CONSCIENCE* “Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Mr. Amorality 2017! In a contest which is sure to create a talking point within the apocalyptic Twitterati – now confined to using actual birds Continue Reading
Hidden Figures: The amazing women who helped make space flight happen
SNAPSHOT Hidden Figures is the incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe)—brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into Continue Reading