A Serious Man Here's the Coen brothers in full-on "weird" mode, as in more "Barton Fink" than "Raising A...

So last week was school holidays and we packed up for a quick jaunt down to Wellington , New Zealand's illustrious capital city. I hadn...

What if Quentin Tarantino had made "Spider-Man"? The result might well be something like "Kick-Ass," an absurdly violen...

I reckon I've been blogging on and off 6 years or so now and it's time to let the younger generation do their thing. Allow me to hyp...

It's been our Wednesday night ritual now for the last six years to watch "Lost," and see where the twists and turns take us ...

I'm an expatriate, but I've never subscribed to the whole "I left America because I hate it" notion of being an American l...

Alex Chilton is dead, and lordy does it hurt to type those words. For a certain stripe of pop fan, he was kind of like our Bob Dylan or Leon...

Everyone knows about Superman, Spider-Man, Batman and Wolverine. But one of the things that keeps me hooked on comics is the sheer variety o...

So last night was alt-rock legends The Pixies' very first tour in New Zealand, like, ever , on the road on their never-ending reunion t...

To blog or not to blog? ... The question that's been rattling about these last 10 weeks or so since I 'gave up' regular posting ...