The Muppets leapt back onto the cultural zeitgeist in a big way with the release of their latest movie, titled appropriately enough, The Muppets this year. Riding the crest of this cinema-driven renewed interest in all things Muppet, BBC One has announced it’s planning to make an all new puppets Continue Reading
“Minuscule” heads to the big screen
One of the delights of the small spaces between programs on the Australian national broadcaster ABC’s schedule are small bite-sized cartoons by a French company, Ikon Productions. Their series, Minuscule, features short usually humorous interplays between various computer-generated 3D insects set against the idyllic backdrop of rural France. The insects Continue Reading
The sweeping tide of new media
Shocking news today. Fairfaz media today announced a raft of sweeping changes to the way they operate over the next three years including the excising of 1900 jobs, mostly in their print facilities, and the conversion of the two oldest newspapers in the country, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Continue Reading
Movie review: “Take This Waltz”
There is something deeply unsettling about life. We all feel it. It’s the sense that something is missing, that the pieces don’t quite fit together like we think they should; the feeling gnawing at the depths of our being that this, whatever this is, isn’t quite right. We do our best Continue Reading
Tralalalalala! My all-time favourite 1970s Hanna-Barbera cartoons
“Hi, my name is Andrew and I am old enough to have lived through the 1970s!” “Hi Andrew.” “You may think that makes me ridiculously old, and the way my body is behaving lately I feel that way sometimes, but growing up back in the age of bell bottoms, and Continue Reading
Reading my way through the apocalypse
If it’s possible for apocalypses to be in vogue, and there is plenty of evidence that they are the in-thing at the moment with the ongoing fascination with a possible looming zombie infestation or the Mayans end-of-days calendar, then thoughts surely must turn to what you would do with yourself Continue Reading
No Doubt back on the pop culture radar
The world’s most beloved purveyors of ska pop are back with a new album produced by pop god, Mark ‘Spike’ Stent, Push and Shove (out September 25), a single to kick things off, “Settle Down” (released July 16, with a video, directed by the uber-talented Sophie Muller who was at Continue Reading
I want to live in television land
I know we have all said it at one time or another, usually after a shockingly hard day out in the trenches of the real world, that it would be great to live in a scripted TV program (this excludes reality programs clearly since they are so, well, real). All Continue Reading
Vivid Festival 2012
I may have missed seeing this in person this year because life got in the way but thanks to the wonders of time lapse photography, it is as if I did get to wander amongst all the luminous wonder. And now you can too…
Book review: “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns)” – Mindy Kaling
This is a seriously funny book. It really is. There are few comedic writers that I can think of that can weave painful stories about their past in with pithy, hilarious observations about those experiences and salt and pepper them with pop culture references that don’t just make sense Continue Reading