Happy pop culture new year everyone!

Here’s to more movies, books, songs, TV shows, cartoon and comic strips and so much more in 2019!

Come and get it! Promo trailer for Kimmy Schmidt’s final episodes

SNAPSHOT In the final episodes, Netflix teases that Kimmy will have to choose between helping her friends and helping herself. Part 2 of season four also includes an hourlong “Sliding Doors” episode, inspired by the 1998 Gwyneth Paltrow movie of the same name that explores how the characters lives might Continue Reading

Movie review: Eighth Grade

As adults, we all become familiar with something called “Impostor Syndrome”. It’s that unnerving feeling that no matter how experienced or intelligent we might be, that we are essentially living life under false pretenses, with the tissue-thin veneer of accomplishment about to ripped off us at any moment. For most Continue Reading

Laurel and Hardy are getting comical all over again

SNAPSHOT There are few names in the history of comedy which have stood the test of time. Acts who transcend age and bring laughter to generations like few have before or after them. They have been recognized as a template for modern humor and celebrated by today’s most popular funnymen Continue Reading

Songs, songs and more songs #1: Methyl Ethel, Touch Sensitive, Kinder, Ellie Goulding, Joji

A new year and after five years of rapturously and emphatically-declaring “Now this is music” – meet me in person and you’ll understand why that is; I am an extrovert and prone to being fulsomely enthusiastic – I’ve decided it is high time for a musical change. So I present Continue Reading

Come with me to A Place Called Slaughter Race!

One of the great delights of Ralph Breaks the Internet, of which there are many, is a musical number that takes place after Vanellope, who finds herself beguiled rather than repulsed by the many life-changing possibilities of the Internet (Ralph, by way of contrast, just wants to go home), sings Continue Reading

It’s time to NOT put on make-up: The Muppet Show without the muppets

SNAPSHOT A little bit of fun by the crew recorded at the end of the first series/season of The Muppet Show in 1976…The crew/cast includes Peter Harris, Richard Holloway, Jim O’Donnell, Brian Grant, Steve Springford, Jerry Hoare, Phil Hawkes, Gerry Elms, John Rook, Martin Baker, Sue Boyers, Francis Essex, Dennis Continue Reading

Dare to Dream with this Eurovision 2019 update: Logo + interval acts

You may be asking yourself right now – “Did we not just witness Israel’s fabulously-funky Netta win the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest? How we can be closer to 2019’s event than the one just gone?” Time, my friends, time and it’s already racing ahead to May this year when the Continue Reading

Movie review: Bird Box

When you really stop to think about how utterly life-changing and disruptive to a fatal degree the apocalypse would be, the first thing that comes to mind is how utterly shock-inducing it would be. One minute, Western civilisation stands proud and strong, and with it, your small, comfortable sliver of Continue Reading

Winter has well and truly come: Game of Thrones evocative S8 teaser trailer

Winter has well and truly come in Game of Thrones in the gripping teaser trailer. In the evocative, and let’s be honest, creepy crypts beneath Winterfell, which will be one of the first places to feel the icy touch of the White Walkers and their leader, the Night King, we Continue Reading

Book review: The Best Version of Me by Guy Sigley

Barney Conroy, a man who never met a confrontation-avoiding lie he didn’t like, who always chose complicated cover-ups over the simplest and easiest of responses to any given situation and who yet somehow ended up with the love of his life, Gloria, and a delightfully-sweet daughter Emily, is back as Continue Reading

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