You might have noticed that I have an inordinate fondness for people who take the accepted form of something and turn it, ever so slightly or with envelope-tearing joie de vivre, on its head. Such is the minimalist but exquisitely colourful work of Polish artist Michal Krasnopolski who I discovered Continue Reading
Book review: A Working Theory of Love by Scott Hutchins
While it is highly unlikely that early man, whose survival depended on an all-consuming hunt for food and shelter, and no doubt the occasional sprint from a sabre-tooth tiger, had time for existential ruminations, it’s a fair bet that shortly thereafter people began wondering what it truly meant to Continue Reading
Fetch me a TARDIS-shaped cake and lots of candles! Doctor Who turns 50
2013 is a big year if you’re a Whovian, a fan of the great Time Lord himself, Doctor Who, who marks 50 years on our TV screens on November 23, just over one short week away. Of course if you’re Doctor Who himself, a Gallyfreyan who’s over 900 years old Continue Reading
Rip’d from the pages of my childhood: The William stories by Richmal Crompton
It’s funny the kind of ideas that take root in you when you’re a child, all evidence to the contrary. I was convinced as a boy of 9 or 10 that Richmal Crompton was a man, that he lived in Singapore where he dreamt up wondrous stories for me Continue Reading
The Zeitgeist Embryonic #1: 5 possibly great TV shows in the throes of development
As someone with my ear to the pop culture firmament, upon which I often hear the heavy footed shuffle of zombies, the thump-thump of alien mechanised vehicles or the light footfalls of zingy sitcom oneliners, hardly a day goes by when I don’t come across announcements about shows with Continue Reading
Can you hear the ABBA reunion talk Fernando?
ABBA are a unique group in many ways. The first true supergroup to emerge from Sweden, back in the 1970s when Scandinavia generally wasn’t regarded as the sort of place you looked to for emerging music trends (as opposed to the present where it stands head and shoulders with Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Internment” (S4, E5 review)
A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ can.” (John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America) ** SPOILERS AHEAD ** Steinbeck, one of the greatest novelists America has ever produced, was right on the money when he penned those words in 1962, a man Continue Reading
You are your favourite TV shows: Infographic reveals all
You know all that amazingly revelatory quizzes that pop up on Facebook with the frequency of virulent rashes or Real Housewives of … spinoffs? The ones that purport, via the answering of such deeply penetrative questions such as “Do you like grass?” and “If you could be were Neil Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: Labor Day (new poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT “In Labor Day, Kate Winslet delivers an award-worthy performance as a depressed single mother, who along with her young teenage son Henry (Gattlin Griffith) have their lives changed forever when they offer a wounded man a ride. The man (played by Josh Brolin) turns out to be an Continue Reading
Please take some time to watch Cobie Smulders teach Grover about being courteous. Thank you!
This could quite possibly be one of the cutest Sesame Street segments I have featured on this blog to date. I mean, when you team up Cobie Smulders from How I Met Your Mother with my favourite Sesame Street regular, Grover – I still have a Grover plush toy Continue Reading