Sitting there watching this week's comic-book movie adaptation "Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World" with a big goofy grin on my face ...

In truth, I spent far, far too much of my childhood watching reruns of "The Brady Bunch." I saw every one of the 117 episodes of ...

Happy birthday to my dear old dad, who turns 70 today. Birthdays are one of the times I really feel the distance of being on the other sid...

Florence Welch, I love you. Seeing Florence + The Machine live at Auckland's Trusts Stadium was a marvelous show by one of the most pr...

One of my favorite things to liven up a dreary, rainy Auckland winter is the New Zealand International Film Festival , which brightens every...

There weren't a lot of black superheroes for the first 30 years or so of comics history. Comics, like mainstream society itself, were ra...

What's your powers Mime Man? My powers are to mime out stuff and make bad guys go away. I have a motorbike and a plane. How did you get ...

The thing about the late, great Harvey Pekar is that he saw day-to-day life could be as exciting as Batman battling the Joker. He was reall...

Happy birthday, Richard Starkey, better known as the unstoppable Ringo Starr, who's 70 years of age today. It's hard to pictured th...

I held a can of Pepsi the other day and was staring at it for quite a while, because that's the sort of thing I do. I've drank a ...