Category: review
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X was always going to be the toughest letter in my A-Z of cartoon characters. It’s generally the toughest letter in an A-Z of any…
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Who, what, why, where and when? They are all words that being with ‘W’. So are ‘wonderful’, ‘witty’ and ‘wise’. I’m sure you knew that…
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It’s the 25th day of April and victory is in sight. Well that’s if you can count the the act of writing 26 cartoon-themed blog…
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Today I’m looking at ‘U’. Because that it the letter we’re up to in my A-Z of cartoon characters of my childhood. But, and I…
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Is it really time for ‘T’? Well, in that case I’ll have an Earl Grey. Hot. Like Captain Picard used to have on Star Trek:…
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19 letters in to my A-Z Challenge brings us to ‘S’. Which is all rather super really. And also spotty. S is for SuperTed and…
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Gosh we’re making progress with this A-Z business now aren’t we? We’re already up to the letter ‘R’. I think that calls for a little…
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Right, time for a little Q&A. Except, of course, we’ve already had ‘A’ – that was way back on the 1st April, when I started…
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“I’ll have a ‘P’ please Bob” was something that was said a lot to the late great Bob Holness, presenter of the seminal 80s quiz…
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Another day of blogging about cartoons and today we’re up to letter number 15 in the alphabet, which surprisingly enough is the letter ‘O’. Which…
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It’s April 16th and we’re now halfway through this most glorious of months. And it’s no coincidence that we’re very much into the second half…
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It’s day 13 of the A-Z challenge, which means, if my maths is correct, we’re halfway through the alphabet. Which probably means I should write…
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You want ‘L’? I’ll give you ‘L’! We’re all going to have an ‘L’ of a time! Because ‘L’ is the letter of the day…
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Day 11 of the A-Z challenge and we’re up to ‘K’. I like ‘K’, it’s not a letter that likes to show off too much.…
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It’s day 10 of the A-Z challenge, which brings us up to the letter ‘J’, I had to resist my natural urges to go with…
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Day 9 of the A-Z Challenge, and this is where I come into my own. Sorry, this is where ‘I’ comes into its own. ‘I’…
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Right, this is the point when it all gets a bit confusing with the whole A-Z Challenge malarkey. Yesterday, being a Sunday, was an officially…
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Can it already be the 7th April? Why, that must mean that we’re up to ‘G’ in my mawkish retrospective of the cartoons of my…
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Well if it isn’t Friday and, moreover the 6th of April. But who really gives an ‘F’? Well I do as a matter of fact,…
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It’s the fifth day of April and, if all is going according to plan, then I should be on to ‘E’ in my quest to…
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It’s the fourth day of April and that can only mean that in my quest to alphabetise the cartoon characters of my youth, we must…
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It’s the third day of the A-Z Blogging Challenge 2018, and, having dispatched the letters ‘A’ and ‘B’ with ease, let us see what I…
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It’s Day 2 of the month of April and by sheer coincidence, it’s also Day 2 of the A-Z Blogging Challenge. If I’m not mistaken…
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It’s Easter Sunday, a day of not inconsiderable religious significance for some people, which I absolutely respect, though I am not especially of a religious…
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Hannibal Lecter is arguably one of the most iconic screen characters of all time. There have been multiple incarnations of Thomas Harris’ man-eating serial killer…
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I saw 1994’s The Specialist in the cinema when it came out. Until recently that was the only time I’d ever seen it, so I…
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It’s Thursday, which in recent months has been the day I have posted an unnecessary review of a film I watched when I was younger.…
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1984’s Romancing The Stone is perhaps as rare an entity as the eponymous gemstone around which much of the movie is centred. Very much a…
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As a teenager there was really only one reason that I, or any of my friends, bothered to watch 1992’s Basic Instinct. In much the…
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Like 1982’s Blade Runner, 1990’s Total Recall is based on a story by acclaimed science fiction writer, Philip K. Dick. However, a dystopian futuristic setting,…
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1990’s Pretty Woman might seem an odd film for me to enjoy given the genre of film that I’ve tended write about in recent weeks.…
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