Looking Forward: Buffy The Vampire Slayer Reboot
I can live without any reboots, but if you are going to have them, they need to be approached with some consideration of how the previous incarnation did things — or they need to totally diverge from that template. All Read more…
Looking Forward: Eddington
A stand off between Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal in a Western by Ari Aster. That line is packed with so much goodness as a description, because if, like me, you are a fan of each of these men, you Read more…
Looking Forward: The Book Of Dust Volume 3: The Rose Field
When I read His Dark Materials my mind caught fire in a way that it never did for Harry Potter. I still haven’t finished Harry Potter — I got up to book 5. I don’t mind the story — I Read more…
Looking Forward: Foundation Season 3
I have owned all of the Foundation books, and never read them. I started them, but I found the style very dry, and the spark never caught. The series looked interesting, and I was fascinated by the idea of Hari Read more…
Mountainhead (2025) Directed by Jesse Armstrong
I like the actors in this. The premise is somewhat interesting, but I think it was done better in A Murder At The End Of The World. The characters are not likeable. Is it become cringe because we have some Read more…
Taxi Driver (1976) Directed by Martin Scorsese
I have watched this quite a few times, but not recently. No one can simmer quite like Deniro, and then project that inner tension into the relationships he builds with the characters around him. Watching these early films, which are Read more…
Blue Steel (1989) Directed by Kathryn Bigelow
I’d only watched this once before. It stuck with me, but I had forgotten a lot about this movie. The disbelief and distrust that the other cops have for Jamie Lee’s character makes you wonder how she ever got on Read more…
The Third Man (1949) Directed by Carol Reed
Orson Welles is always watchable, and there are a number of movies, which I don’t have to give a run down of for you to know them, that are masterpieces. This is one of them. The thing I like in Read more…
Comicsphere: Moonray Book 2: Echoes Of Ascension by Brandon Graham
I was there for the Kickstarter on the first book, but couldn’t get the funds together for the second one. So I had to get it once it was out. I loved King City, and Graham’s work on Prophet, Rain Read more…
Comicsphere: Breakdowns by Art Spiegelman
All I really knew of Art Spiegelman was his work on Maus, but the documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse acquainted me with his earlier work and his work for Topps, including Garbage Pail Kids, which I loved. A Read more…
Comicsphere: Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees
It’s funny because I saw this and told my wife it looked great, and that it reminded me of Richard Scarry but with a story like Dexter, and that is exactly how IDW describes it. I love it, and so Read more…
Daredevil Season 3
It is a real shame that this series is not continuing. It was interesting to see the opposition of motion versus stillness in this season as an indicator of who was winning. When Kingpin is on top he is calm, Read more…
Television Whitenoise: Blues Clues
As a dad of a 22 month old boy, I watch a lot of children’s TV. We tend to opt for stuff that is low stimulation in terms of riling him up, and we go instead for something that has Read more…
Television Whitenoise: Bosch Legacy
Not sure why I held up on watching this for so long. I think I finished Bosch and needed a break from procedurals for a second. I’ve enjoyed watching Titus Welliver since Deadwood. Bosch always seems to travel a straight Read more…
DMZ And DMZ
The fact that I would watch Rosario Dawson in most things didn\’t serve me well here. I am most way through the first episode, and apart from the name, I don\’t get the point of this show even referring to Read more…
Television Whitenoise: Somebody Somewhere
Bridget Everett as Sam is great and Jeff Hiller as Joel is her perfect sidekick. I like this kind of low-key comedy. It is a little like mumblecore with the pacing and the way the laughs are pitched. The way Read more…
Rebellious Jukebox: We Are Lady Parts
I have to admit I discovered the music through Spotify and wasn\’t aware that they were a band from a sitcom. Based on that knowledge the music here isn\’t bad. The first song I heard really made me think of Read more…
Rebellious Jukebox: FKA Twigs (feat. Central Cee) — Measure of a Man
This is the best Bond theme not for a Bond movie. FKA Twigs creates a sexy and sophisticated song that is a real earworm. I hope the movie The King\’s Man is good, but even if it isn\’t this song Read more…
Rebellious Jukebox: Adele 30
On first listen I found this sonically more interesting than the last record, but it was not an easy album to listen too. I heard Adele talking to Zane Lowe about some of the influences on the sound, and I Read more…
Film Hick: The Sparks Brothers
This Town Ain\’t Big Enough For The Both Of Us — that is pretty much all Sparks meant to me before this dictionary; that and Ron Mael\’s moustache. I had been teeing it up to buy a lot of their Read more…
My Top 20 Books 2017
001. Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right 002. Burn Site In Bloom 003. Mouth Baby 004. A Land Called Tarot 005. Saga Vol 7 006. Injection Vol 3 007. Doom Patrol Read more…
Turn The Page: Leaving Las Vegas by John O’Brien
Anyway, as will often happen, I was filling out a wishlist on Amazon, and I recalled the book, hunted it down, and decided to buy it. I am so glad that I did. For me this book sits alongside One Flew Read more…
Turn The Page: Nine & A Half Weeks A Memoir of a Love Affair by Elizabeth McNeill
Do you ever get given a book and wonder what the fuck good is it going to do you to read it? I looked at the cover and I figured they had made it somewhat muted to detract from the Read more…
Turn The Page: Hunting Mr Heartbreak By Jonathan Raban
For a long time I had this weird idea that if I had read a book that I was never going to read it again, because I had all the data in my head and it would serve no purpose Read more…
vote for national snack
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existential cupcake: a miniature serving of existence
http://existentialcupcake.blogspot.com/ so, the many and multifarious reasons that you should check out the above link are numbered six and are impossible and must be done before breakfast. if you want quick-witted, lyrically sharp and fun observations on the human condition Read more…
Turn The Page: Out Of The Gutter Issue 5
Out Of The Gutter never pulls any punches and Issue 5 is no exception. If you like your fiction mean and dirty; want writing that has that gut-churning authenticity which keeps you coming back for more, then this is the Read more…
Turn The Page: Memoirs Of An Exquisite Mephistophelian by Mike Padilla
All-round good guy and fucking polymath talent, artist and poet Mike Padilla has a book out and though I have been a bit slow to hip you all to it — here you go: and go and get yourself a Read more…
Take Art: Brandon Bird
Art with a sense of humour that works is a rare breed, and Brandon Bird\’s work really hits the nail on the head. Check it out here.
Take Art: Grace Hudson
I know very little of this artist – I have this firefox plug-in that throws up sometimes seemingly random wikipedia entries at the side of my searches and this was one of those serendipitous discoveries. I was immediately struck by Read more…
Take Art: Tracey Emin
The very thing which Tracey Emin is celebrated for in some circles is the same thing for which she is crucified in others – the fact that she has the artistic integrity or pig-headedness to plough her own furrow is Read more…
Take Art: Eric Gill
Eric Gill is one of those artists where you have to divorce your feelings about the art from your feelings about the person – that is if you think the art merits such an effort. I have to admit that Read more…
Comicsphere: Indelible, Inc by Brendan McGinley & Tomas Aira
With some stories it is the art that arrives with you first; with some it is the words – neither of these is a bad thing, they just speak of different techniques perhaps, but with Invisible Inc from Brendan McGinley Read more…
Turn The Page: The Case For Christ by Lee Strobel
I read all kinds of books – why? Because I like to find things out. Would I have hunted this book out or even picked it up in the normal course of things? No, probably not. The way it came Read more…
Film Hick: 88 Minutes (2008)
Directed by: Jon Avnet. Cast: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, William Forsythe, Deborah Kara Unger. Rated: R. Running Time: 108 minutes. It seems like a topsy turvy world where an Al Pacino movie doesn\’t make the grade, but I Read more…
Turn The Page: Out Of The Gutter Issue 5
Out Of The Gutter never pulls any punches and Issue 5 is no exception. If you like your fiction mean and dirty; want writing that has that gut-churning authenticity which keeps you coming back for more, then this is the Read more…
My Top 20 Books 2017
001. Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars from 4chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right 002. Burn Site In Bloom 003. Mouth Baby 004. A Land Called Tarot 005. Saga Vol 7 006. Injection Vol 3 007. Doom Patrol Read more…
Film Hick: Ghost In The Shell (2017)
There are remakes and there are copydrift films, where the notion degrades so much in the copying that you really aren’t able to see much of the original in it. Sure, some of the features of the landscape are the Read more…
Comicsphere: Super Dinosaur Vol. 1 by Jonathan Hickman & Jason Howard
I have been following Jason Howard only since he hooked up with Warren Ellis for Scatterlands, and I have loved what I have seen of Trees. I started following him on twitter and found out about Super Dinosaur And after Read more…
Turn The Page: Leaving Las Vegas by John O’Brien
Anyway, as will often happen, I was filling out a wishlist on Amazon, and I recalled the book, hunted it down, and decided to buy it. I am so glad that I did. For me this book sits alongside One Flew Read more…