So you’ve been busy, what with decking the halls, falalalalalalalala-ing and watching chestnuts roast on an open fire – not to mention all those sleigh rides and worrying about how cold it is outside – and things don’t look like slowing too soon. Behold the festive stress reducer – Continue Reading
Star Wars goes Rogue – but will this risky move backfire? (curated article)
Peter Allen, University of Melbourne Star Wars: The Force Awakens left audiences desperate to know WWLS? (What Will Luke Say?) But fans will be waiting quite some time to find out. The new film, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which opens in Australia on December 15, does not Continue Reading
On 4th day of Christmas … I enjoyed A Very Calvin & Hobbes Christmas
If you were to imagine a Calvin and Hobbes Christmas, the odds are you wouldn’t imagine a traditional Norman Rockwell moment. Oh sure Calvin’s parents would love that kind of Christmas with everyone grouped around the table in blissful, festive repose, but the reality is that Calvin, who never Continue Reading
Baby Groot totally steals the new trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
SNAPSHOT Set to the backdrop of Awesome Mixtape #2, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 continues the team’s adventures as they traverse the outer reaches of the cosmos. The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mysteries of Peter Quill’s true parentage. Continue Reading
Festive weekend pop art: awesome pop culture Christmas cards from P. J. McQuade
As a pop culture junkie, I love the idea of combining my passion for movies, books, TV shows and music with my equally enthusiastic love of Christmas. So heartfelt thanks to Brooklyn illustrator P. J. McQuade who has designed a range of awesome Christmas card, which you can buy Continue Reading
On 3rd day of Christmas … I read The Green Road by Anne Enright
Christmas is a strange time of year for many families. By turns wondrous, magical and one-of-a-kind, a chance for far-flung and emotionally disparate members to come together in some form of togetherness, it can also feel like an endurance test, a trial of of sorts that begins at the Continue Reading
Movie review: La La Land
Ask most people what springs to mind when you mention musicals and you’ll likely be peppered with words like “romantic”, “fairytale”, “escapist” and “otherworldly”. And it’a true that a lot of musicals do tend to live up to these word pictures, evoking a magical sense of wonder at the Continue Reading
On 2nd day of Christmas … I spent festive time with Simon’s Cat
If you have been owned by a cat, and I have been fortunate to have been owned by a number of delightful feline companions, you will be well aware that they are hilariously contrary creatures who possess a pleasingly perverse ability to know what you don’t want them to do Continue Reading
Book review: A Very Special Year by Thomas Montasser
You would be hard pressed to find an avid reader anywhere who doesn’t possess an enduring love affair with bookshops. They are a magical place, full of ripe possibility, opportunities without number to pursue lives wholly different from your own, to become a pirate, a 18th century tycoon of Continue Reading
On 1st day of Christmas … I decorated my tree with pop culture ornaments
I am both a Christmas tree addict and a pop culture junkie. All of which means that with the arrival of the most wonderful time of the year, my thoughts tend to go to covering my delightful artificial pine tree – when I was growing natural pine trees were Continue Reading