One of the great strengths of Sesame Street since its earliest days has been its ability to simultaneously cater to both its core audience of very pre-school and young school age children and to the adults who often watch the show alongside their kids. The liberal sprinkling of knowing Continue Reading
Movie review: “Lincoln”
Rarely does a movie transport you so completely to another place and time, and into the lives of the people who called that era home, such that you feel as if its evocation is more real than the time you inhabit, but Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg from a Continue Reading
Shiny new posters for “Oz: The Great and Powerful”
Disney are certainly going to a huge amount of effort to make sure that Oz: The Great and Powerful, directed by Sam Raimi, and which makes its debut on 8 March this year, is every bit as much an event release as the original Wizard of Oz was back Continue Reading
How cool is this? The eye-catching new poster for “Iron Man 3” (+ Superbowl trailer)
Now this, my friends, IS A POSTER. Eye-catching, stylish and telling a powerful story all in a glance. It was released yesterday as part of Disney/Marvel’s impressively imaginary marketing for the film starring Robert Downer Jr as the titular character and Ben Kingsley as The Mandarin, in a role Continue Reading
Disney’s “Paperman” charms its way online
It is both a symptom of growing older and the saturation of pop culture delights that our burgeoning digital age provides us, that very little truly surprises anymore. It is not that the quality is questionable – although like anything in life, much of what is produced is of Continue Reading
“Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome” finds its way to syfy at last!
It all started way back in 2003 when a boldly re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, stripped of all its late 70s cheesiness (for which I still retain a great fondness, I have to admit), and bulked up with stellar scripts, imaginative narrative and superb acting blasted onto our screens. From the Continue Reading
“The Muppets … Again” … again! (Plot + first official image)
This time The Muppets are going global. traipsing across the globe on a grand adventure evoking all the delightfully silly charm and sophistication of 60s crime and spy capers like The Pink Panther (1963) and Casino Royale (1967). And there will be action and intrigue and no doubt humour and Continue Reading
First impressions: “The Mindy Project”
One of the great drawbacks about living in Australia – next to, of course, the great many advantages (he says patriotically while balancing on a wombat and holding a stubby of beer) – is that some TV shows take quite a while to reach our shores. While this can work Continue Reading
Movies in a hurry! Movie pictograms from H57
My lord there are some enormously creative, visionary people out there! Take Gianmarco Milesi and Matteo Civaschi from design studio H57 in Milan, Italy and the authors of lifeinfiveseconds) who have gained themselves quite a following with their imaginative Star Wars typography posters. I discovered their work on the amazing Continue Reading
Sneak Peek: Steven Moffat spills on what’s up next for “Dr Who”
Ah March 30 2013, you seem so far away. After having my Dr Who yearnings satisfied by the Christmas special, “The Snowmen” with its sentient snow, disgruntled Time Lord and overly curious nanny, I am once again staring down the barrel of months of no TARDIS-driven grand adventures in Continue Reading