The Mummy Diaries: Two babies – Week 47

WHAT DO YOU GET when you cross a toilet training toddler with an 11-month-old that’s teething?

A head case for a mother!

Yes, it’s been quite a week. I ...

Review: Greta

FOR A FILM of impressive pedigree look no further thanGreta. It has Neil Jordan, the director of the Oscar-winning The Crying Game and the generation-defining Interview with the Vampire who also counts 1997’s significantly underrated The Butcher Boy among his credits. ...

The Mummy Diaries: Two babies – Week 46

TWO BIG MILESTONES hit in the Hargan household this week! Lily is now officially on the move. She has been managing to roll about everywhere up to now but she has mastered the crawling and ...

Review: Avengers Endgame

THE MARVEL Cinematic Universe (MCU) is undeniably the biggest thing in movies at the moment. This complex, winding, genre-spanning labyrinth of films featuring super soldiers, tech geniuses, spies, monsters, wizards, and other characters drawn from ...

The Mummy Diaries: Two babies – Week 45

Baby Brain. 

A state of impaired memory, concentration, or mental agility supposedly experienced by women during pregnancy or after giving birth.

THIS IS THE OFFICIAL DEFINITION of pregnancy brain ...

Newcomer Vox vows to end the fiesta against Spain

MUCH OF THE  democratic discontent across the West stems from the absence of  political outlets for citizens who are rooted in their communities and whose attachments to the nation-state still easily outweighs affinities with global ...

The Mummy Diaries: Two babies – Week 44

HAPPY EASTER to you all! What a class weekend. Not only is it the only weekend of the year that it is totally acceptable to eat chocolate for breakfast, lunch and dinner – but to ...

Review: Wild Rose

Spoiler Warning: Unlike my usual style of review, this article contains significant plot spoilers for Wild Rose.

 ALLOW ME TO ASK a hypothetical question. Imagine that you are at a party and ...

The Mummy Diaries: Two babies – Week 43

AFTER SPENDING the week being careful and consciously thinking about what I say before it blurts out of my mouth, I think we’ve managed to curb the swearing – thankfully! Jamie has now moved on ...

Review: Shazam!

THERE’S A CLEVER running gag throughout Shazam! about the protagonist’s inability to settle on exactly what his superhero name should be. While those who are new to the DC universe or the superhero milieu more generally might ...

The Mummy Diaries: Two Babies – week 42

AH, THOSE MAGICAL memorable moments as a parent. You know, the ones where your baby smiles for the first time? When they roll over for the first time? When they start to crawl? Take their ...

Review: Dumbo

IF MY REVIEW of Fisherman’s Friends succeeded in getting any of its points across at all, hopefully it was that nostalgia alone cannot carry a movie. 

I still believe this and I am adamant ...