Yes Sesame Street, on air for 45 years on PBS, and a recognised leader in the field of children’s educational programming – not to mention the home of Big Bird, Ernie & Bert and Grover, is on the move. Yes, the entire street! For those of us that blanch Continue Reading
Poster me this! Collaborate or resist: Colony asks what your choice would be
SNAPSHOT From executive producers Carlton Cuse (Lost) and Ryan Condal (Hercules) comes USA’s newest, highly-anticipated drama COLONY. Set in the very near future, COLONY centers on one family’s struggle to survive and bring liberty back to the people of an occupied Los Angeles. SAG winner Josh Holloway (Lost) stars Continue Reading
Ho! Ho! WOOF! MEOW! Merry Christmas from The Secret Life of Pets
SNAPSHOT Comedy superstars Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet and Kevin Hart make their animated feature-film debuts in The Secret Life of Pets, which co-stars Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell, Jenny Slate, Bobby Moynihan, Hannibal Buress and Albert Brooks. Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and his longtime collaborator Janet Healy produce Continue Reading
They’re back! The Tenth Doctor (Who) and Donna Noble return in a series of audio adventures
I try not to play favourites with my pop culture children … Oh, who am I kidding? That’s all, and pretty all of us do! So my delight at finding out that my favourite modern Doctor Who – and quite likely my favourite overall sorry Doctor #4 (Tom Baker) Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Tokyo Cosmo’s flying pigs and monsters
SNAPSHOT Directed by Takahiro Miyauchi and Takuya Okada, Tokyo Cosmo takes us inside the home of a woman with a fantastic imagination. Her imagination is so powerful that a simple household nuisance soon becomes an epic struggle. Things get so crazy we even get to see a courageous flying Continue Reading
Birthday movie review: The Crow’s Egg (Kaaka Muttai)
There is a temptation when telling the story of anyone from a disadvantaged background to gild the poverty lily somewhat; in other words, to cast the deprivations of life on the proverbial wrong side of the tracks in some sort of rose-tinted, we-have-no-food-but-we-have-love glow. And while you can well Continue Reading
“Welcome a-Bird!” Big Bird tries his hand at comedy writing
Working out what you want to do when you grow up can be kinda hard. After all there’s so many possibilities. Especially if you’re Big Bird and you’ve lived on Sesame Street all of your young life, where your told every day you can be and do anything you Continue Reading
He is not like us: The emotionally powerful mystery of Midnight Special
SNAPSHOT In the sci-fi thriller Midnight Special, writer/director Jeff Nichols proves again that he is one of the most compelling storytellers of our time, as a father (Michael Shannon), goes on the run to protect his young son, Alton (Jaeden Lieberher), and uncover the truth behind the boy’s special Continue Reading
Andrew turns the big Five-O: The 50 favourite singers and songs of my life
I can’t imagine a time when music wasn’t a major obsession. Granted I never took up the guitar or drums and joined a band, and my efforts to learn the paino were dismal at best (right Mrs. Noble?), but as a listener I was devoted beyond all reason. It didn’t Continue Reading
Book review: The Story of Alice – Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Like many of us, Lewis Carroll, born Charles Lutwidge Johnson, was a rich study in contrasts. Born to a moderately well off middle class family in the isolated Cheshire parish of Daresbury, Carroll was to all appearances a shy, studious man, more given to the pursuit of religion, mathematics Continue Reading