The Muppets are on Instagram … And drinking Lipton Tea to relax … And most excitingly of all, their movie Muppets Most Wanted is almost in theatres! It’s almost too many The Muppets for just day except that you can never have too much of Kermit and Miss Piggy, Continue Reading
86th Academy Awards: My Oscars wish list of winners (+ some fun/interesting stuff)
“They wuz robbed!” It’s a cry you hear echo throughout the crowded corridors of the zeitgeist every time the nominations for an awards show are announced. Everyone has their own firm opinion on who should and shouldn’t have received a nod, and the anguished cries only amplify come the Continue Reading
Movie review: Tracks
Great is the weight on any actor’s shoulders when they are required to carry almost an entire film on their thespian shoulders. But Mia Wasikowska (Stoker, Jane Eyre) is more than up to the challenge, bringing an enduringly strong yet restrained presence to the role of Robyn Davidson, who, Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art: John Cooley reminds us that Movie R Fun
Right so it’s time for bed time stories again. And you’d rather be attacked by a herd of ravenous zombies or watch one of those 3am informercials for brooms that also double as fat-free burrito ovens than read another sickly sweet book of politically correct fairytales. Well fear not Continue Reading
The delightfully quirky indie joy of Pomplamoose
Could making the musical acquaintance of a pair of talented multi-instrumentalists from California, real life couple Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn, who have named their combined entity Pomplamoose after a delightful play on the French word for grapefruit pamplemousse, possibly have made my week, month and year just a short while Continue Reading
Book review: Existence by David Brin
Existence is the future stripped bare of science fiction fallacies, Star Trek day dreaming and wishful thinking. And you know what? It’s not as bleak a read as you might think. Certainly humanity has more than its fair share of pressing issues on its hands – climate change is Continue Reading
Community meets The Walking Dead in the best opening credits ever
If ever there was a marriage made in pop culture heaven, it’s the bringing together of Community and The Walking Dead, two shows with rabidly passionate fan bases and zeitgeist-defining takes on the world. Community is particularly suited to the apocalyptic credits gifted to it by Youtube user atsp88, Continue Reading
This is Ulaanbaatar calling! Coldplay’s surprise new song Midnight
I have felt it … and it seems many others have too. The sense that we know too much, too soon and for too long before it appears in this digital age. That all the fun, the element of surprise has disappeared in a world where we have teaser Continue Reading
Movie review: Nebraska
Nebraska is a remarkable movie. Not least because director Alexander Payne (About Schmidt, Sideways) chose to film his exploration of a father (Woody Grant played by veteran actor Bruce Dern in fine form) and a son (David Grant, rendered with exasperated poignancy by Will Forte) finding a meeting point Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Claimed” (S4, E11)
In this week’s instalment of Fractured Apocalyptic Tales, with everyone’s favourite prison group still scattered to the walker-infested four winds, Michonne got more than a touch of the Pharrell Williams, Carl fancied himself a quizmaster, Rick dived under beds and off awnings, and Glenn got stubborn as a mule Continue Reading