I love our postmodern age where one creative moment begets another begs another until they all merge into one satisfying complimentary whole. It’s often a case of art imitating art imitating art – forget about life itself: who wants that? – to glorious, pop culture-glorifying effect. The latest person Continue Reading
How To Be Single ponders why love doesn’t come with a guide
SNAPSHOT There’s a right way to be single, a wrong way to be single, and then…there’s Alice. And Robin. Lucy. Meg. Tom. David. New York City is full of lonely hearts seeking the right match, be it a love connection, a hook-up, or something in the middle. And somewhere Continue Reading
Future Zeitgeist: 3 pop culture resolutions for 2016
Another new year! Thousands of new movies to watch. Hundreds of TV shows to watch. Billions of books to read (wait, is that only me?). And an insane amount of music waiting to be downloaded and listened to over the next 366 days. So what to prioritise? What to Continue Reading
Movie review: The Good Dinosaur
Being the curious creatures that we are, humanity has always loved a good “What if?” scenario. It has fuelled the ragingly successful genre of alternate history, one that Pixar has now joined with gusto and its trademark insight into the “human” condition and emotional nuance. Far from being the Continue Reading
Re-stacking the shelves: The 10 books I loved most in 2015
One of the great drawbacks of being a pop culture consuming omnivore is that I don’t have nearly enough time to read as I would like to. Movies happen at set times at the cinema and so I must be there or miss out, music can be listened to Continue Reading
A Monster Calls: If no one sees you, are you really there at all?
SNAPSHOT A Monster Calls is the story of Conor, a boy who faces the challenge of a very ill mother, school bullies and the isolation, or “Invisibility” the situation creates. In the vein of Where The Wild Things Are, Conor escapes into the world of fantasy and imagination, conjuring Continue Reading
Re-watching the big glowing box: The 10 TV shows I loved most in 2015
I am a man caught between two screens – a big cinematic one and a much smaller but ever-increasingly influential and powerful one. The tug of war is intense but I find myself drawn again and again to the powerful, funny, clever, engaging stories television tells, especially in what Continue Reading
Bring on the anti-hero! Deadpool debuts two new trailers
SNAPSHOT Based upon Marvel Comics’ most unconventional anti-hero, DEADPOOL tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a Continue Reading
Re-play the music please maestro: The 10 songs I loved most in 2015
Music makes my world go round. Well, granted so do movies, TV shows and books, and big fat slices of caramel cheesecake, but music is the one thing that goes with me pretty everywhere, the soundtrack to my life if you will. It’s there with me when I am Continue Reading
On holidays in space … wish you were here: iambit’s Postcards From Space take you out of this world
Ah space, the final vacation frontier. Who wouldn’t want to get away to all those wide open spaces, those endless starlit nights, those plants teeming with fun and adventure. (For the purposes of this giddily happy intergalactic holiday post, let’s pretend that things like Alien xenomorphs and Imperial Stromtroopers aren’t Continue Reading