Whenever I get into a conversation about what the best Christmas film is, I cite the same handful of movies as my personal picks. Obvious ones: the original 1947 Miracle on 34th Street or Capra’s universally loved It’s a Wonderful
So, a few things I’m lumping together here. But all around the theme of Christmastime. In truth it has all become a bit of a pantomime, as we’ll observe. It even features the pantomime villain – in the form of
So, a quick follow on from the post on the Bondi beach terror attack. The
Islamist gunmen opening fire on exclusively Jewish targets on a Sydney beach on the first
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A strange object is in our Solar System and is being closely observed. You’ve probably heard about it. It’d be astonishing if
Did Trump give Bill Clinton a blowjob? I’m going to guess probably not. But the fact that this question is even
It was in March 2003 that Britain joined the United States in the illegal invasion of Iraq. As is by now commonly
Soundgarden has just been inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame. A new album, featuring Chris Cornell’s final work with
The recent War of the Worlds movie was a total flop and has been trashed by pretty much everyone. Some have called
I’ve always wondered what treasures sit in the vaults and store houses of the Vatican, gathering dust for years; historical items that may go decades without being disclosed to the public or might even go decades unexamined by anyone. A recent announcement revealed that in 2012 the Vatican authorities employed
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In 2008 or 2009, the BBC made a documentary on life inside Libya: I remember it because I watched it at the time of its broadcast. Up until the beginning of 2011, that video was available on You Tube. Once the international community had made up its mind – after
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A magical star leading three mysterious ‘wise men’ from the East across miles and miles of wilderness to a small, obscure town. And a troubled husband and wife travelling on donkey, social outcasts turned away by one apathetic towns-person after another, desperate for a simple act of human compassion to
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You know, sometimes you start out with a simple question.
You might’ve heard announcements this week that the mysterious Shroud
The various Holocaust memorial events across Europe that marked the
Malala Yousafzai, the now world-famous (and Nobel Prize winning) Pakistani
I haven’t been able to stop marvelling at this one.
Film
So, I don’t necessarily like doing this sort of thing.
First up, the great Stan Lee’s best MCU cameo appearance
The passing of Peter O’Toole in December was a sad
So I’ve just rewatched The Last Jedi for the fifth
Very few people would deny that Darth Vader is one
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Music
Kristin Hersh’s debut solo album Hips and Makers, released in
There are bands. And there are albums. And then there’s
So the Chris Cornell tribute concert took place on Wednesday
On October 21st 1995, the 28 year-old Shannon Hoon was
A fair amount of new music comes my way on