I am not usually a fan of promoting brand campaigns since creative though they might be, they are still, in the end, an ad designed to sell product. But there is something about this ad for Chipotle, which frankly could use all the help it can get in the Continue Reading
Comics review: Wacky Raceland (issues 1 & 2)
The apocalypse is upon us once again, bringing it with a radically different take, not to mention three-headed mutants, on Hanna-Barbera’s classic late ’60s road race, Wacky Races. The somewhat still-playful title aside, this is a considerably darker take on the cartoon series which featured 11 cars, 23 characters Continue Reading
Book review: Resistance is Futile by Jenny T. Colgan
Love can find you in the most unexpected of places. Even so, if you’re Connie MacAdair, a mathematics prodigy who has spent her entire life in love with numbers and theorems, and reviled in certain quarters as a hopeless nerd as a result, it’s a fair bet you’re not even Continue Reading
Who’s Your Daddy? The Blacklist gears up for a full-on 4th season
(image via Spoiler TV) In recent years I have increasingly stopped watching a lot of the network shows I used to favour such as Law and Order and CSI in favour of the much more nuanced fare available on the cable providers who tend to be far more adventurous, Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Grotesque” (S2, E8 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD! AND A REMINDER THAT CACTI SHOULD NOT FORM A STANDARD PART OF YOUR POST-APOCALYPTIC DIET* #Roadtrip #You’redoingitwrong In the first episode of the back half of Fear the Walking Dead season 2, we went with Nick (Frank Dillane) on a cross country trek across, or rather up Continue Reading
Hollywood or Bus! reminds us to never take public transport with Hollywood stars
Generally when you bring two things you like together the result is usually quite wonderful. Peanut butter and honey (or jelly if you’re American). Wine and Friday nights. Lorelai and Rory Gilmore. Buses and Hollywood stars. Wait what? Well think about it, we like buses. They us places we Continue Reading
Movie review: Sausage Party
Prepare to see your kitchen as a killing field, the supermarket as a place of crushed and broken dreams and takeaway pizza as an exercise in violent dismemberment. For Sausage Party, Seth Rogen’s gloriously foulmouthed, absolutely hilarious tale of relgiously-devoted sentient food that discover their faith may have more Continue Reading
KAPOW! New animated 1960s-era Batman film is on its way
SPLATT! SPLOSH! BIFF! Holy past and present colliding Batman! Let’s face it – if you grew up in the ‘60s or ‘70s, the odds of watching some pretty quirky TV programs were pretty high. And so it was that as young boy growing in the 1970s one of the Continue Reading
Well hello there: Arrival shows the dangers and potential rewards of talking to aliens
SNAPSHOT Directed by Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Sicario), the film is based on Ted Chiang’s 1998 novella Story of Your Life with a script with Eric Heisserer (The Thing (2011)). When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team – lead by expert linguist Louise Banks (Amy Adams) Continue Reading
All hail the bookshop: survivor against the odds (curated article)
National Bookshop Day was held Saturday 13 August and I made a point of visiting my three favourite bookshops in Sydney … and yes, I bought a LOT of books in my favourite places in the world. Long may they live! ______________________________ This National Bookshop Day, Australia’s one-time Minister Continue Reading