Around about the time that the world marked The International Angela Lansbury Appreciation Day, a delightful video emerged of the multi-talented and endlessly effervescent Angela Lansbury performing the theme from Beauty and the Beast as its 25th anniversary screening. This gala event, whch also featured the actors who played Continue Reading
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Road to Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life #4: “They Shoot Gilmores Don’t They?” (S3, E7 review)
It’s a sad fact of life but even in a town as magically quirky as Stars Hollow, where a Tennessee Williams look-a-like contest can put a bridge repair fund “right over the top” – thank you Taylor Doose (Michael Winters) – it’s still possible to have your heart broken. Yes, even Continue Reading
Going ape s**t! An astronaut has a really Bad Day on Planet of the Apes
If you’re an ape or a monkey then life in a Planet of the Apes future is pretty sweet. Once mighty Homo Sapiens are now your primitive lapdogs and the Earth, ruined New York city and all, is yours, all yours. But then an astronaut or two crash into Continue Reading
Book review: The Dog Who Dared to Dream by Sun-Mi Hwang
(cover via Hachette Australia) Dreams are often seen as an ephemeral part of life. Necessary yes, for without them where would we draw hope, or be motivated to push beyond ourselves and achieve great things, but hardly the root stock of existence, a necessity for a full and complete Continue Reading
First impressions: MacGyver (2016)
TV storytelling, like that of any creative medium, is essentially the art of recycling of ideas that have seen the light of day many, many times before. Christopher Booker’s 2004 book, The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories proposed the existence of a finite number of story ideas, and Continue Reading
“Life is a journey to be experienced” … Happy 90th birthday Winnie the Pooh!
It may hard to believe but Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne’s beloved creation who, along with other characters based on his son Christopher’s stuffed animals, resides in the quintessentially-English Hundred Acre Woods, is 90 today. Yes, 90 years old! Time flies when you’re eating a great many smackerels of Continue Reading
Haters Back Off! The hilariously deluded power of self-belief
SNAPSHOT Haters Back Off! is a television comedy series starring Colleen Ballinger, based on her character Miranda Sings, that centres around “the oddball family life of Miranda Sings, an incredibly confident, totally untalented star on the rise who continues to fail upward by the power of her belief that Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Time to get On the Same Page
Opposites attract is one of the great maxims of romance. But what if it’s not so much opposites being attracted as one person finding in the other the spark that’s been missing from their own black-and-white life? That is quite delightfully the case in On the Same Page by Continue Reading
The tricky business of being Humans (series 2 poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT In the second eight-part series, Synths all over the world are experiencing ‘a catastrophic malfunction’, or in Mattie’s words ‘waking up’ and questioning the status they’ve been afforded by humans. (synopsis via Den of Geek) From the “Uncanny Valley”, where people recoil from a computer-generated figure that looks Continue Reading
Life unintended: The dark regrets of Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals
SNAPSHOT From writer/director Tom Ford comes a haunting romantic thriller of shocking intimacy and gripping tension that explores the thin lines between love and cruelty, and revenge and redemption. Academy Award nominees Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal star as a divorced couple discovering dark truths about each other and Continue Reading