It’s a rare day indeed that new artwork surfaces from one of the great masters of the comic artform, Bill Watterson, the man who gave us Calvin and Hobbes, one of the greatest comic strips to ever grace newspaper pages. He has only emerged from his self-imposed retirement on two Continue Reading
Now this is music 41: The Lighthouse and the Whaler, Banoffee, Vanic X K. Flay, Dream Police, A Rainmaker
The year may be screaming to a close – well not so much screaming as lushly and compellingly flowing fast if you take this wonderful collection of five artists and their amazing songs into account – but there is music, so much music to listen to, which truth be Continue Reading
Movie review: God Help the Girl
It was Maria von Trapp herself, the woman whose life story inspired the musical The Sound of Music and who is featured in passing as a sweet visual joke in God Help the Girl, who remarked that “Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart Continue Reading
“Do you want to build a meth lab?” Frozen meets Breaking Bad
* IF YOU HAVEN’T BINGE-WATCHED BREAKING BAD YET THEN … SPOILERS! * Awww Breaking Bad finally has a theme song people and it’s wonderful! It’s all thanks to Frozen, which truth be told, is not the first thing you would associate with Walter White and his ultimately corrupting plan Continue Reading
Good grief Charlie Brown you have new movie images! AND a full-length trailer!
My affection for Peanuts runs long and deep. I can’t, in all honesty, think of a time in my life when Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, Linus and the whole Peanuts gang weren’t an integral part of my life. The comic strip, which next year turns 65 – I will Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Consumed” (S5, E6 review)
* BEWARE OF SPOILERS … AND ZOMBIES … AND THINGS FALLING (EVEN IF YOU MAKE GOOD TIME) * The Walking Dead has remarked more than once on the transformative effects of the zombie apocalypse, siding usually with the fact that it is NOT a Good Thing. This stands Continue Reading
Movie review: Living is Easy With Eyes Closed (Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados)
In this age of blockbusters, television events, and reality TV, it is to forget that not all the transformative events in life are writ large for all the world to see. Many things, even the really important things, simply just happen, quietly and out of sight, and no one, besides the Continue Reading
Movies starring movies: They’re not just DVD cases anymore (short films)
Do you ever look at your shelves of DVD movies – at this point I am clearly talking to only people over 25 since I am guessing Millenials would view DVD ownership as somewhat akin to inviting a caveman to draw ochre paintings on a living room wall – Continue Reading
Bee and PuppyCat: The quirky animated adventures of a girl and her unusual new friend
SNAPSHOT Bee and Puppycat follows Bee, ever the reluctant hero, who becomes entangled in the adventures of a puppy (…or is he a cat?) as they travel between reality and the void of Fishbowl Space. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Remember the old Superman series lead in where people would Continue Reading
Deck the halls with rabid monsters: Doctor Who Christmas special teaser trailer
Ah Christmas. Chestnuts roasting by an open fire … Jack Frost nipping at your toes … Yuletide carols being sung by a choir … and Alien-esque monsters chasing you around the North Pole … wait, WHAT THE WHAT THE?! Well it is a Doctor Who Christmas special after all and Continue Reading