Let’s hear it for Christmas sweaters! They go together like eggnog and a roaring fire, chestnuts and am open fire, and “Falalalalalala” and decking the halls! If you’re the sort of person who needs their sweaters, known in Australia as jumpers and most definitely not being worn at the Continue Reading
On 4th day of Christmas … I got ready to watch Robot Chicken’s Christmas special
There’s no arguing that Santa sits pretty atop the pop culture recognition tree? He may only get to strut his toy-giving festive stuff once a year but man does he make the most of it, and even when your thoughts may not necessarily turn to reindeers, tinsel and presents Continue Reading
Movie review: The Peanuts Movie
Peanuts has always been more than just a comic strip. Not that being a comic strip per se is a bad thing; rather that the creation of Charles M. Schulz has always transcended the ephemeral, transitory nature of the medium and the small black and white panels that define it to Continue Reading
On 3rd day of Christmas … I admired The Art of Krampus
Let’s face it – if you had a choice between happy, jolly Santa Claus coming to pay you a visit, laden with toys, a hearty laugh and a longing for milk and cookies, and a cloven-hoofed demonic bringer of retribution and doom as payment for bad deeds done, you’d no doubt Continue Reading
Sisters: The Farce Awakens: Why Amy Poehler and Tina Fey’s film is just like Star Wars
It appears, and you may be surprised by this, that Sisters, the new hilarious comedy from Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a small barely-on-the-radar movie opening soon, have a great deal in common. Yes, really. OK, not at all, but that’s not stopping Continue Reading
On 2nd day of Christmas … I read Stick Man by Julie Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
There’s a very good reason why the song “I’ll Be Home For Christmas”, first recorded in 1943 by Bing Crosby and written for soldiers fighting overseas and far from their loved ones, is such a Christmas favourite. It encapsulates everything that most of us – I appreciate not everyone Continue Reading
So many worlds: You can laugh through all of them with new sci-fi comedy Tripped
SNAPSHOT The Inbetweeners’ Blake Harrison stars in E4’s mind-bending new comedy drama as Danny, an average 24-year-old who has been friends with stoner Milo (newcomer George Webster) since they were kids. Danny decides it’s time to grow up, settle down and marry long-term girlfriend Kate (BAFTA Award winner Georgina Continue Reading
On 1st day of Christmas … I watched the film Get Santa
Christmas films, especially those with good old Santa’s name in the title, generally tend to follow the same well-worn path. Someone, oh let’s say Santa himself, gets into trouble, caught in a situation that a man of hundreds of years experience and worldly-wiseness has never encountered in all his Continue Reading
The vibrantly musical world of Alê Abreu’s Boy and the World (O Menino e o Mundo)
SNAPSHOT “Cuca’s cozy rural life is shattered when his father leaves for the city, prompting him to embark on a quest to reunite his family. The young boy’s journey unfolds like a tapestry, the animation taking on greater complexity as his small world expands. Entering civilization, industrial landscapes are Continue Reading
“Do you think we’ll change things?” Outlander S2 teaser trailer asks the big unknowable questions
SNAPSHOT “Season Two of Outlander begins as Claire and Jamie arrive in France, hell-bent on infiltrating the Jacobite rebellion led by Prince Charles Stuart, and stopping the battle of Culloden. With the help of his cousin Jared, a local wine merchant, Jamie and Claire are thrown into the lavish Continue Reading