If you ever doubted how cool Bert and Grover are, and seriously why would you do such a horrible thing, then be sceptical no more. As it turns out, two of the mainstays of TV’s Sesame Street are very much to the social media groove, particularly that very funky Continue Reading
Hell No! Ingrid Michaelson joins with Deaf West Theatre Company for the ultimate break-up song
Love in its many forms is the staple of modern pop music. The meet-cutes, the getting-to-know-yous, the glories of true intimacy and of course the acrimonious break-up songs – they all form a solid basis for pop’s articulation of the highs and lows of getting to know someone really Continue Reading
Hilarious! Blooper/sizzle reels from Orphan Black, Game of Thrones, iZombie
What I love most about blooper reels, especially the ones from shows that are normally Deadly Serious – in many cases, quite literally! – is that they give you delicious insight into the people making the shows. Characters who are usually the very epitome of angst and gravitas are Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: A bold new take on a long-running journey
We’re boldly going into space yet again. But don’t go looking for Kirk, Picard, Janeway or Sisko to show you the way. In the next television instalment in Gene Roddenberry’s idealistic vision of a spacefaring future free from war, discrimination and want – although as Deep Space Nine showed Continue Reading
Book review: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Shakespeare may have been the one to remark on it in his play As You Like It, but the truth is all of us, at least the self-aware among us, have wondered at one time or another if we are merely playing the parts assigned to us and if Continue Reading
Superheroes arise! Trailers for Wonder Woman, Doctor Strange, Justice League #SDCC
We are drowning in superhero narratives at the moment (or is it that we’re drowning and the superheroes are coming to rescue us and …?). But that’s understandable. After all, they seize the imagination, takes on bold and imaginative journeys into ourselves, the human spirit, around the world and Continue Reading
Flintstones! It’s the re-imagined comic book Flintstones … wait, what?!
They were, as the jaunty theme song is fond of saying, “the modern stone age family”. But a lot of time has passed between the 1960s when The Flintstones debuted, inspired in large part by The Honeymooners, and while the cartoon re-runs are still a delight to watch with Continue Reading
Movie review: Jason Bourne
The tagline for Jason Bourne is the definitive yet poetic “You know his name”, an evocative phrase designed to speak to our familiarity with a character who, over the course of three genre-redefining films that caused among other Bond to play visual and narrative catch-up, we had come to know Continue Reading
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life
There are very few things these days that get me as excited as a kid at Christmas but the imminent arrival of four new episodes of the Gilmore Girls, one of my favourite TV shows ever, penned no less than by the creator and chief scribe (not including season Continue Reading
Wayward Pines: “Walcott Prep” (S2, E9 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AS WELL AS OVERLY INTIMATE MOTHERS DAY CELEBRATIONS, NOT ENOUGH JUICE IN THE TANK AND ABBIE-FREE HOLIDAYS* It was back to the classics this week in Wayward Pines, nominated as the town most likely to be consumed by vengeful evolutionary anomalies by 10/10 apocalypse survivors, Continue Reading