It’s often been said of late that we are in a new golden age of TV. According to the good folks at Wikipedia, the first golden age of TV was from the late 1940s to early 1960s when live dramas, many of them garnering both critical acclaim and solid viewer Continue Reading
Sonic Bliss #1: My favourite songs of the week
If you’ve even glanced at this blog in passing, it will have become fairly obvious fairly quickly that I love music. To an almost unhealthy I-should-go-to-rehab-or-get-shock-therapy-while-strapped-to-a-gurney-in-a-1950s-hospital degree, and even then I suspect it likely wouldn’t work. And frankly I wouldn’t want it too. Music is vital, wonderful and without a Continue Reading
Community is back!
After far too long a hiatus, Community jumps back on TV screens – well US TV screens anyway – next week and I am thrilled! (This fabulous promo for Community’s return was put together by Thedoboreel on Youtube and is beyond awesome) It is hands down of the most inventive, Continue Reading
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake (book review)
I love books with quirky titles. They have become quite popular over the last few years ever since The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time became a hit in 2003. But a quirky title is only truly memorable if the novel is equally as creative and well-written, which Continue Reading
I didn’t think I would: watch zombies on TV
Well, strictly speaking I am not watching the zombies themselves. Just the show they’re in, thank you. Naturally in the sacred tradition of children everywhere when they are watching anything remotely scary on TV, the moment the actions moves from the surviving humans to the zombies, I either put my Continue Reading
Review: “The Vow”
The Vow is a story about love triumphing in the most dire of circumstances, and by all rights it should be deeply moving. Movies with that kind of theme always are right? Well, they should be. Taken at face value, The Vow hits the bills perfectly. It is a heart Continue Reading
Review: “My Weekend With Marilyn”
My Weekend With Marilyn, manages against the odds, to say something fresh about Marilyn Monroe, surely one of the most documented figures in modern pop culture. That in itself is an achievement. That it manages this, and is a warm, rich and engaging movie into the bargain, (something that eludes Continue Reading
Astropolis (book review)
Humanity is deeply flawed. But despite this, not ultimately doomed. This is the recurring theme throughout this book, which is the first volume in what is styled as an epic sci-fi trilogy. And epic it is! The story covers vast amounts of space and time in its quest to tell Continue Reading
The Temperamentals (New Theatre)
It is easy to brave behind closed doors. You can articulate the most intimate secrets and no one will hear you, unless you choose to let them. But the whole equation changes when you are suddenly thrust into the spotlight, or like Harry Hay (Doug Hansell), and his lover, Rudi Continue Reading
Review: Harvest (Stadt Land Fluss)
I need to say from the outset that I normally like slow-burning indie dramas. In fact, it’s the greater bulk of the movies I see. I like to watch them because they take the time to craft a rich and fulfilling narrative, and create fully-formed characters that you care about, Continue Reading