Cats and Star Wars characters together? Surely that is a combination made in heaven! Well, if you’re a Star Wars-obsessed, cat-loving guy like me it is. Two talented Disney feature animation artists, Griz and Norm Lemay have seen fit to bring these two groups together and the resulting artwork, Continue Reading
Book review: A Year of Marvellous Ways by Sarah Winman
It is a rare thing indeed to come across a book that not only possesses engaging, beguiling characters in a world that seems as real as anything physically before you but which tells their story with a lyricism and poetry so exquisite that you stop every paragraph or so to Continue Reading
Pixar homage: How the much-loved animation studio doffs its creative hat to great movies past
There are a great many things to love about Pixar. Their ability to conjure up a fully-formed world whether it’s a child’s room or a facility where monsters go out to scare children and harvest their fright energy. Their attention to detail, their rich characters who leap off the Continue Reading
Tons o’ TV Trailers #2: Teachers, Baskets, 11.22.63, The Path, the 100
Oh ye who think that you might actually have some time to sleep, eat and smell the roses once you’re done with the five programs in Tons o’ Trailers #1 – abandon all hope of doing anything but watching a host of great programs on TV … because here Continue Reading
Do not go gentle into that good (pop culture) night: VHS gets a second lease on life
We see it again and again. A new technology comes along sweeping all before it, and we’re breathlessly told by visionaries with rose-tinted glasses on it and a glass half-full in their hand, that the world will be a far better place when it has supplanted all those pesky Continue Reading
Reset: Playing with time to save the one you love
SNAPSHOT In Reset, Yang Mi (The Bullet Vanishes) plays a single mother and scientist who is developing a method of traveling through time using black holes. And then a mysterious bad guy played by Wallace Huo (Swordsman) kidnaps her son and demands that she hand over the time-travel technology. Continue Reading
Tons o’ TV Trailers #1: Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash, Orphan Black, The Walking Dead, The Get Down
“So much TV, so little time!” could well be the cry of lament emanating from many a TV viewer’s lips in this much-remarked upon new Golden Age of Television. Or some, like Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone are calling it, “the age of Glut TV” where there’s “Too much Continue Reading
Movie review: Looking For Grace #StGeorgeOpenAir
Cinema loves its grand, dramatic moments. They’re the lifeblood of blockbusters, Oscar-worthy dramas and even in their own understated ways, indies; and they often form the point around which many an epic narrative pivots. But what if you turned that on its head somewhat, and gave a film its big Continue Reading
60 x 2016 movie trailers in one clip? You got it Mr DeMille
I’m busy. You’re busy. We’re all 21st-century-running-hell-for-leather busy. Andy Schneider and Jonathan Britnell of Burger Fiction appreciate this, they really do, and so they have stitched together trailers for 60 of this year’s big mainstream releases such as Zoolander 2, Pride Prejudice and Zombies and Star Trek Beyond in Continue Reading
Star Wars? Meet Calvin & Hobbes. You’re welcome thanks to Brian Kesinger
Two of my favourite things in the entire wonderful vastness of the pop culture are Star Wars, which is doing pretty brisk business at the moment with The Force Awakens, and Calvin & Hobbes, a legendary comic strip, long since retired about a young boy and his very special, Continue Reading