Given the nature of this blog, which doesn’t exactly hide its cathode ray light under a Scooby Doo patterned-bushel, you have probably quite likely surmised, and you would be right, that I am more than a little obsessed with, and in love with, pop culture. While I don’t do Continue Reading
On the 7th day of Christmas … I preview 5 movies I can’t wait to watch over the summer break
My gloriously long two week summer break – trust me compared to the one or two days I have taken off here and there over the last year of frantic work, it is indeed epically long – is so close I can almost it (if you must know it Continue Reading
On the 6th day of Christmas … I watched “A Moody Christmas” (review)
A Moody Christmas is about as perfect as television gets. It has been widely hailed, and rightly so, as one of the best series of the year in Australia, or for that matter anywhere, its six episodes a pitch perfect blend of humour and drama that captures the idiosyncrasies Continue Reading
Mashup! “Toy Story” merges seamlessly with “Into Darkness”
Oh joyous news! To my eternal delight – “eternal” being defined as anything that catches my attention long enough to stop me looking at Twitter again for at least five minutes – phoenixdark9 on YouTube has mashed together Toy Story 2 (and a small bit of Toy Story 3) with Continue Reading
On the 5th day of Christmas … Jingle Bell Rock: The Sonic Bliss festive edition
It must be as obvious as the blindingly red nose on Rudolph that I am a huge lover of Christmas music. It plays when I am decorating my tree, when I am wrapping presents, on my way to work in the weeks leading up to Christmas – the right Continue Reading
On the 4th day of Christmas … the comfort of annual viewing traditions
I was watching The View recently and they had Angie Harmon (Law and Order, Rizzoli and Isles) on as a guest. Now while I think she is a beautiful, delightfully down-to-earth person, I wasn’t planning to hang around for the interview until she said that her fondest Christmas tradition Continue Reading
On the 3rd day of Christmas … a zeitgeist of pop culture books
Yes that is the new collective noun for pop culture books, which you will not be surprised to learn I have in abundance to go with the DVDs, the downloads, the associated merchandise and a cyborg-partridge-in-a-pear tree (what you didn’t expect anything so everyday as a normal flesh-and-blood one Continue Reading
On the 2nd Day of Christmas … TV shows of Christmas Present
So to the TV shows of Christmas present! Now when selecting what would make this post, my criteria was not so much when they telecast the episode as whether the show itself is still on the air, which I can happily say is definitely the case with all these Continue Reading
Sneak peek! “Pacific Rim” trailer
And the sci-fi mega0-movies just keep on coming. Now we have the Guillermo Del Toro helmed-movie, Pacific Rim, which is based on an initial treatment by Travis Beacham (who has been given the job of writing a sequel already despite the movie not releasing till July 12, 2013 in Continue Reading
On the 1st day of Christmas … “Christmas Rules” aka “Holiday Rules” (music)
This album, released in the USA as Holidays Rule (a culturally appropriate title since the “holidays” period in the USA covers Hanukah, and Kwanzaa in addition to Christmas), but as Christmas Rules internationally, was the brainchild of “producers Sara Matarazzo, Chris Funk and executive producer Randall Poster of bi-coastal Continue Reading