It is hard to walk away from a film like Fruitvale Station, written and directed by Ryan Coogler in a confrontingly realistic docudrama style (which garnered him two major awards at this year’s Sundance Film Festival), without being profoundly affected. Detailing the tragic miscarriage of justice which occurred in Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art #10: The 50 year history of Doctor Who as an imaginative tapestry
I absolutely anyone who dares to think outside the box in any sphere. And Bill Mudron, who hasn’t so much as stepped outside the artistic box as he has left the plant, shredded all the cardboard-making technology and burned the factory down, has created one of the most original Continue Reading
Movie review: Mystery Road
Upsetting the status quo is never an easy proposition for anyone but it becomes exponentially more challenging in the suffocatingly intense surrounds of a small town where everybody knows everyone and everything. That’s the situation facing Jay Swan (Aaron Pederson), newly returned from detective school in the “Big Smoke”, Continue Reading
Now This is Music #19: Jonas Oakland, Layla, Ida Corr, Kele, Neneh Cherry
Though we’re almost on the cusp of wall to walls renditions of “Deck the Halls”, “We Three Kings” and “O Come All Ye Faithful” – all of which by the way is fine with me, the Christmas Addict – there’s still time for some funky, cutting edge pop music Continue Reading
The Walking Dead plays Monopoly … and goes back to the future or is that the past?
Way back in the dim, dark days of my youth – which actually weren’t that dark actually since we did have, you know, fire and such – I spent many a happy hour playing Monopoly with my family, usually during end of year summer holidays when we’d decamp to Continue Reading
5 things I love about The Crazy Ones
I know it isn’t fashionable to say in some quarters but I really like The Crazy Ones. Nay, LOVE it. It’s one of my favourite shows of the new fall season on US TV, full to the brim with whippet smart writing, finely tuned comic performances and a situation Continue Reading
It’s wine o’clock again! Just 2 months till Cougar Town returns to our screens
One of my favourite shows on television, the greatly underrated and woefully under-appreciated comedy gem Cougar Town is going to back on our screens soon and very soon! With an appearance by star Courtney Cox’s old Friends co-star Matthew Perry (following Cox’s stint on Perry’s now defunct sitcom Go On) and Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Live Bait” (S4, E6 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD (and walkers … and an emotional catharsis …redemption … and more walkers)* “When my girls were born, that’s when I figured out what it was to be a man. You know, a real man. You protect ’em, keep ’em safe, you just try to make them stronger Continue Reading
A marvelous massing of movie trailers #6: Noah, Maleficent, Some Velvet Morning, Stalingrad, Charlie Countryman
It’s full speed ahead in cinema-land right now with a tsunami of amazing movies coming our way thanks to the studios’ desperate need to get as many movies out before the end of the year so they qualify for the awards season in early 2014. With all those amazing Continue Reading
Doctor Who turns 50: Night of the Doctor webisode
It’s hard to know how to react when you hear that one of the defining TV shows of your childhood/youth is being brought to life after a reasonably lengthy period out of production. Part of you sings with the angels, thrilled that you’ll be able to see characters you Continue Reading