You may not think there’d be much of a touching story in the tale of one young budding photographer, her broken and reluctantly-discarded instamatic camera and a whole lot of photos that will never be taken but you’d be wrong. Aemilia Widodo, a graduate of Ringling College of Art + Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Go Getters” (S7, E5 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND WALKER PARTIES LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN BEFORE WITH LOUD MUSIC, BONFIRES AND ROPED-UP GUARDS* Thank the Diseased Big Walker in the Sky, we have a reprieve from Negan’s swaggering blandness this week. Admittedly we get it still by proxy with Simon (Steven Ogg), The Walking Continue Reading
Tugging at the festive heartstrings. Join #BustertheBoxer in this year’s John Lewis Christmas ad
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