It’s not exactly news I will grant you that the 80s are back in a big way. At the moment we have all the New Romantics-inspired synth pop we can listen to, the return of acid washed jeans and Hypercolor-esque Tshirts, the Rubik’s Cube restored to icon status … Continue Reading
The Second Screen is upon us
NBC announced today that it is releasing Grimm: The Essential Guide, which will be available on Apple’s iPad, Barnes and Nobles’ Nook and Amazon’s Kindle Fire, is what the network calls a Second Screen interaction companion ebook for its hit TV show, Grimm. The guide, which will give fans Continue Reading
Do I know the way to Sesame Street?
I grew up with Sesame Street which began on November 10, 1969 just before my 4th birthday and only a few months before my mum and dad returned to Australia with my sister and I for good after six years or serving as missionaries on remote postings in Bangladesh. Continue Reading
MIKA evades my pop culture radar
This information-drenched modern age of ours is a double-edged sword in many ways. On one hand we have the chance to not only hear the latest news about our favourite music artist/author/actor’s latest project but hear about it often from the person themselves. It is a level of accessibility Continue Reading
Movie Review: “Not Suitable For Children”
Just when you have resigned yourself to the apparent fact that there is nothing new under the romantic comedy sun, along comes director Peter Templeton with a completely off-the-wall take on young love. And it all centres on testicular cancer. Yes, you read that right. Testicular cancer. If ever Continue Reading
New “Dr Who” trailer released by BBC
I have to say that the new Dr Who trailer released by the BBC looks amazing, and has so much “blockbuster-yness” in it than I am expecting him to be battling Jaws, Forrest Gump, all the dinosaurs from Jurassic Park, and several of Marvel’s superheroes all in one almighty Continue Reading
Comics: “Cheeky Weekly”
Like most kids, I got into comics in a big way growing up. But unlike most kids in Australia, instead of avidly following the adventures of Spiderman and Batman, I gravitated mainly to British comic books that celebrated a very idiosyncratic type of English humour. It obviously struck a Continue Reading
“Brady Bunch” reboot: Has TV caught Hollywood Disease?
When I first read the news that there are plans afoot to reboot The Brady Bunch, which ran from 1969 to 1974 and starred Robert Reed and Florence Henderson, I thought “Why not? It worked well for Battlestar Galactica, and Dallas.” But as I digested the news, I realised Continue Reading
Sonic Bliss #12: My favourite songs of the week
It has been one of those weeks where I got a dreadful cold and didn’t do much besides sleeping, reading, and eating of comfort foods. So my choice of songs is resting heavily on music I heard last week. But hey they’re great songs and I would like to Continue Reading
Book review: “The Long Earth” by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
The Long Earth, the first in a planned series of novels by these two giants of the British publishing scene is an expansively imaginative work. Flavoured more by Stephen Baxter‘s high-concept reckonings of future realities, with only traces here and there of Terry Pratchett‘s warmth and whimsy, it Continue Reading