Supposedly the much-revered ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle once said “Give me a child until he is 7 and I will show you the man”. While it’s not absolutely true, of course, since life is way too messy and cruel sometimes to keep that 7-year-old in absolutely pristine condition, there Continue Reading
Now this music #96: Plastic Plates, Set Mo, Viceroy, NONONO, PNAU
Life got you down? Dragging your feet everywhere you go? Need some pep in your step? More than though, do you want to groove away to music that actually means something from artists who have actually stopped and thought about life a little or, I suspect in the case Continue Reading
All life is born from chaos: Star Trek Discovery tries to bring some order
SNAPSHOT Star Trek: Discovery will follow the voyages of Starfleet on their missions to discover new worlds and new lifeforms, and one Starfleet officer who must learn that to truly understand all things alien, you must first understand yourself. The series will feature a new ship, new characters Continue Reading
Movie review: That’s Not Me
At one point in That’s Not Me, a marvellously entertaining comedy that gives an hilariously poignant thoughtfulness to the idea of an existential crisis, the protagonist, almost forgetting she is trying to impress a guy she’s met at a party, says something along the lines of “I don’t watch Continue Reading
Book becomes movie: All I Want For Christmas is You premieres first trailer
SNAPSHOT The animated movie tells the story of young Mariah, who wants nothing more for Christmas than a puppy and has set her eyes on a specific little pooch named Princess. Little Mariah is tasked with taking care of her uncle’s dog to prove her responsibility to get the Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Minotaur” / “Diviner” (S3, E9 & E10 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SOME TECTONIC SHIFTS IN POWER … AND SHOPPING …YES SHOPPING From the beginning – both of the show and the apocalypse it so brilliantly documents – Fear the Walking Dead has excelled at exploring what humanity is like under stress. I mean, extreme, world-ending, civilisation-collapsing, Continue Reading
Sit back, listen and enjoy: John Green reads the first chapter of Turtles All the Way Down
Sporting a catchy, intriguing title that goes to the heart of an age-old scientific debate which, to be fair, science has pretty much won, John Green’s first new book in six years, Turtles All the Way Down, is due in just 7 weeks. That’s pretty exciting in and of Continue Reading
Want to move to Suburbicon? Buyer beware
SNAPSHOT Suburbicon is a peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns… the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. But the tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge (Matt Continue Reading
Book review: To Become a Whale by Ben Hobson
Masculinity, like so many societal constructs, perpetually teeters on the edge of a thousand shaky assumptions. We may think we know what it is, and what it is not, but the truth is, it’s a hazily grouped together set of ideas that when put to the test, often come Continue Reading
Dark Ark: Noah wasn’t the only one saving the condemned beasts of the earth
One of my favourite things in this postmodern pop culture world of ours is when someone of great imagination takes a well-known and well-loved story and inverts and subverts it to an entirely new end. Apart from the fact that it’s a cleverly creative thing to do, it offers Continue Reading