Pop Culture Maniacs Podcast Episode #10: Big Mouth

How to Make the His Dark Materials Series: Advice from a Fan

Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is one of my favourite series of novels, a complex trilogy of fantasy novels that appeal to people of all ages. It was a series that won the Carnegie Medal and Whitbread Book of the Year awards and was voted as one of the best novels by the British public back in 2003. In 2015 […]

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special Review

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special is the 2022 Christmas offering from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Kraglin Oboonteri (Sean Gunn) tells the Guardians of the Galaxy about the time Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) tried to celebrate but was prevented by Yondu (Michael Rooker). Mantis (Pom Klementieff) becomes moved by this story and sets out to […]

Watchmen – This Extraordinary Being Review

The past is something we tend to cling to like a security blanket. When we discuss something awful, we hold it up as a clear mark, a blemish, a black spot on the soul of humanity – something that we won’t do ever again. Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it […]