It probably goes without saying that humanity is rife with ambition. From crawling out of the primordial ooze and evolving into higher lifeforms with free will through to building complex, enduring and not-so-enduring civilisations, people in general have displayed an admirable ability to keep forging ahead no matter what Continue Reading
Jekyll and Hyde in space: Arrowhead asks if your greatest enemy may not be within you (trailer)
SNAPSHOT An interstellar Jekyll and Hyde, Arrowhead tells the tale of survival set amongst the distant stars. Kye is a prisoner of war caught between two armies that he doesn’t believe in. When offered an opportunity for freedom, Kye sets out on one last mission only to become stranded Continue Reading
“Eh … What’s up Doc?” Why a new Bugs Bunny cartoon, Wabbit (poster + teaser trailer)
It’s Bugs Bunny Jim, but not as we know him. In the same year that good old Bugs Bunny celebrated his 75th birthday – he first appeared in a 1940 Tex Avery cartoon A Wild Hare – he is back with an all new series, Wabbit – A Looney Tunes Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Wire Cutters by Jack Anderson shows the importance of robotic teamwork
Once upon a time on a faraway desolate planet, two mining robots meet. While the meeting of these two souls, albeit artificially birthed ones, bodes well for companionable cooperation, things don’t quite work out as you might expect. The smaller more Wall-E-esque of the two supplies eagerly leads the bigger Continue Reading
“It is I, your furry pal, Grover!” 3 reasons why he is my favourite Sesame Street character
I can still remember that magical Christmas eve back in the early ’70s – OK they were all magical but this is the one that I remember most especially – when I work up at 2 a.m. and quietly checked the pillow cases hung at the end of our beds Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The force is strong with this office Star Wars Post-It art
Much as I hate to disparage the dedicated interior design professionals who toil to come up with the office environments in which we spend much our walking hours, the truth is most corporate places of work could do with a little more pep and pizzazz. Or Star Wars. Specifically, Continue Reading
Can you ever outrun your past? Season 2 of The Leftovers asks the big questions (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT What if your life was upended in an instant? What if your spouse or your child disappeared right in front of your eyes? Was it the Rapture or something even more difficult to explain? How would you rebuild your life in the wake of such a devastating event? Continue Reading
Movie review: Maze Runner The Scorch Trials
Given it is a part of a recent cinematic tsunami of Young Adult dystopian films, it won’t surprise you to learn that there are zombies in the Wes Ball-directed Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, the sequel to 2014’s The Maze Runner. Lots and lots of seriously aggrieved, Flare Plague-created, fastmoving, Continue Reading
Moose have teeth too! And every children’s book on dental care wants you to know it
Mooses rule kids’ books on dental health! It’s true – sure there are books about bears, fairies and yes even crocodile’s getting their dental health on, but moose, for reasons I am yet to fathom but naturally wholly embrace without question, are all over books educating kids on how Continue Reading
Yup, there are zombies living among us: iZombie season 2 drops a catchy teaser trailer
SNAPSHOT Olivia “Liv” Moore (Rose McIver) was a rosy-cheeked, disciplined, over-achieving medical resident who had her life path completely mapped out… until the night she attended a party that unexpectedly turned into a zombie feeding frenzy. Now a med student-turned-zombie, she takes a job in the coroner’s office to Continue Reading