I have loved Peanuts for a very long time. I can say without any hesitation whatsoever that it is my favourite comic strip of all time -this is in a world where Calvin and Hobbes, Get Fuzzy and a host of other comics have also captured my heart and Continue Reading
Stories in small boxes #1: The comic strip Get Fuzzy
The world is, by and large, divided into dog lovers and cat lovers, and by mutual unspoken agreement, never the twain shall meet. But what if you were one of those people who straddles this often hostile divide – between the people, not the animals; if you’re a dog, Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “The Grove” (S4, E14 review)
* ALL THE DEVASTATING SPOILERS IN THE WORLD AHEAD* The post-apocalyptic world of The Walking Dead just got a whole lot darker in “The Grove”. You may wonder how a nightmarish existence blighted by the loss of loved ones, deprivations without number, and the ever present threat of dismemberment Continue Reading
Music review: “Wonderland” by ceo
If there is one thing that good people of Scandinavia have mastered to an almost elemental degree, it’s the ability to mix the dark and the light, ecstasy and misery in one seamless, reality-embracing package. In the case of ceo, the moniker used by Eric Burglund, one time member Continue Reading
Movie review: Lex Beaux Jours (Bright Days Ahead) #affff2014
Engrossing drama is not always made up of epic moments or tectonic shifts in sentiment. In the case of Marion’s Vernoux’s engaging slice of life film Les Beaux Jours (Bright Days Ahead), it’s composed of a series of quiet, if momentously important, events in the life of Caroline (Fanny Continue Reading
Let’s all dare to be square: New The Boxtrolls trailer is a package of endless delights
SNAPSHOT The new 3D stop-motion and CG hybrid animated feature is a comedic fable that unfolds in Cheesebridge, a posh Victorian-era town obsessed with wealth, class, and the stinkiest of fine cheeses. Beneath its charming cobblestone streets dwell the Boxtrolls, foul monsters who crawl out of the sewers at Continue Reading
Poster me this! VEEP S3, Continuum S3, Mad Men S7, GoT S4 + Maleficent
Eyes, it has been said, are the windows into the soul. A wholly romantic notion, thought not one with some truth, that can be applied to a variety of other things in life … you know, say, TV and movie trailers perhaps. Although they are less windows into a Continue Reading
All hail Worf of Starfleet! (Wolf of Wall Street trailer parody)
You think that Jordan Delfort, the character that Leonard Dicaprio plays in the Academy Award-nominated Martin Scorsese-directed film The Wolf of Wall Street is the ultimate badass? Well, think again because no one wears his badass credentials, not to mention his manliness and honour on his sleeve like Worf Continue Reading
Say hello to the Two Men on Planet Ten
So if we’ve learned anything at all from shows like Star Trek (in all its incarnations), Stargate SG1 and 1001 other sci-fi shows that feature humanity dashing from one corner of the galaxy to another, it’s that exploring another planet is exciting, scary, important, enthralling, educational or a heady Continue Reading
By Your Side (film): Standing with the traumatised children of Fukushima three years on
This week marked the third anniversary of the destructive Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that struck the Fukishima region of Japan on 11 March 2011, resulting in the deaths of some 16,000 people (2600+ remain officially listed as missing, presumed dead) and the displacement of many tens of thousands more by Continue Reading