“There’s more to life than balloons and honey, Pooh.” “Are you sure?” This small but important exchange between an exasperated adult Christopher Robin and a gloriously-innocent Winnie the Pooh captures the very heart and soul of Christopher Robin, directed by Marc Forster to a screenplay by Alex Ross Perry, Tom Continue Reading
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A trio of TV trailers! The Flash S5 + Outlander S4 + The First
INTRO THE FLASH (season 5) I’ll be honest – season 4 of The Flash felt a whole lot like treading water, with a plot that could have been done in half the allotted number of episodes. The Thinker (Neil Sandilands) was annoyingly evil if that makes Continue Reading
Book review: The Light Between Us by Katie Khan
“Wuv, true wuv”, as the Impressive Clergyman in 1987’s classic The Princess Bride rather hilariously puts it, often tends to get short accurately-portrayed shrift in popular culture. Not in terms of how often it is featured, which is a considerable amount, dappled as it is in the many hues Continue Reading
Literally the best place ever: Say hello to the mystically fabulous world of Hilda
Life can be scary when you’re taken away from everything you’ve ever known. Hilda, the star of an acclaimed graphic novel series by Luke Pearson and now a gorgeous-looking whimsical new animated show on Netflix, knows a thing or two about what that feels like as IO9 explains: “In Continue Reading
Now this is music #113: MNEK, Elohim, Amilli, Mitski, Miya Folick + Eurovision update
Life huh? Comes with all kinds of nasty baggage, unadorned reality and a distinct lack of glitzy everything at times; not exactly the kind of thing you want to dive into without some reassuring backup. Which is where these five gorgeously-good artists come in, people who muse in a Continue Reading
Dear friends, you are now about to enter … a trippily colourful Willy Wonka chill-hop video
The 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is fabulously trippy, gloriously imaginative and gleefully & subversively over the top, channelling the manically clever of Roald Dahl, on whose book the classic is based, perfectly. Everything from the giddily colourful visuals to the brilliance of Gene Wilder’s superlative Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Blackjack” (S4, S13 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND HOPE AND DOOM BUT NOT IN EQUAL MEASURE The zombies may be thick on the ground in their very own apocalypse but not so much hope or any sense of optimism for the future. Most survivors, including the new villain of the piece Martha (Tonya Continue Reading
Fork me! Is life on earth The Good Place after all? We find out in season 3
The Good Place is hands down one of the most clever, funny and innately human sitcoms to come down the pike in quite some time. In two brilliantly-imaginative seasons it has managed to ask some pretty intense questions about the nature of good and evil, life and death, fate Continue Reading
Movie review: Juliet, Naked
The world, it can be safely said, is roughly divided into those people who take a flying leap off a metaphorical cliff, hoping for the best as they sail through the air, and those who tiptoe trepidatiously to the edge, peer over, say “Nope!” and edge away, never to Continue Reading
A Quiet Place — Telling a Story with Sound (video essay by Michael Tucker)
Snapshot Sound always plays a particularly important role in the horror genre, but A Quiet Place takes this a step further, making sound itself a key element of the story. For this video I had the opportunity to talk to the sound designers of the film, Erik Aadahl and Continue Reading