SNAPSHOT In the 3D animated comedy, The Angry Birds Movie, we’ll finally find out why the birds are so angry. The movie takes us to an island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds – or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red (Jason Sudeikis, We’re the Millers, Horrible Bosses), a Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Your most-loved pop culture characters unmasked!
If you’re like me, you’ve likely spent a great deal of time with your favourite pop culture characters, their presence enriching everything from lazy childhood Saturday mornings spent spread out on the couch watching cartoons to nostalgic adult nights spent wondering where your youth went … wait, is that Continue Reading
Never Stop Never Stopping: Popstar is an undeniably dope parody
SNAPSHOT Popstar “goes behind the scenes as singer/rapper Conner4Real faces a crisis of popularity after his sophomore album flops, leaving his fans, sycophants and rivals all wondering what to do when he’s no longer the dopest star of all. (synopsis via Paste Magazine) Mockumentaries can be a real joy. Continue Reading
Book review: The Dog Stars by Peter Heller
The apocalypse ain’t what it used to be. That’s not to say it’s dropped all its end-of-the-world, doom-and-gloom garb in favour of bright summery colours and a jaunty gait, but an increasing number of writers are beginning to ask themselves, in ways usually poetic and insightful – once the Continue Reading
SMOOTH … Sesame Street seamlessly delivers a stunning rendition of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s “Tha Crossroads”
Sesame Street has always been way up to the minute and astutely hip to the groove. And now thanks to Adam Schleichkorn, who previously gave us the mash-up gem of The Muppets performing the Beastie Boys’ “So What’cha Want”, they just got even more street cred thanks to his Continue Reading
Movie review: Zootopia
Some years ago, when Disney’s once-lustrous animation star had dimmed considerably, its glory days of Sleeping Beauty, Fantasia and Bambi well behind it, and uber-creative upstart Pixar nipping at its heels, you could have been forgiven for wondering if it would ever reclaim its place as one of the Continue Reading
Can I be honest? This is what The Walking Dead (S4-6) is really all about says Screen Junkies
The Honest Trailers from Screen Junkies are simply brilliant. Even if you are utterly devoted to a show like The Walking Dead, which yours truly and so many others are, it’s still fun to take a step back and laugh at some of the wild inconsistencies in the show. Continue Reading
Bookstores and libraries are wonderful places! Here’s the cinematic proof
In common with many people, bookstores and libraries are my happy places. I can wander through the shelves and stacks of bookstores particularly for hours on end, enthralled by one book after another, having to fight the urge (mostly successfully) to buy everything I see. It’s a glorious escape Continue Reading
We have been chosen! Sausage Party’s hilarious animated look at food fatalism
SNAPSHOT Sausage Party, the first R-rated CG animated movie, is about one sausage leading a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become chosen to leave the grocery store. The film features the vocal talents of Continue Reading
A beginner’s guide to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld (curated article)
David G. Lloyd, University of South Australia Terry Pratchett once told me that he didn’t actually recommend beginning your relationship with the Discworld through his first novel in the series, The Colour of Magic (1983). That’s because hindsight is 20:20. When Terry wrote “The First Discworld Novel” in 1983 Continue Reading