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August 5, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Film Review: Hotel Transylvania 3 – Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 6)
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation Director: Genndy Tartakovsky Sony Pictures Animation Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 6) Hi, it’s me again, Oscar. Did you like the Peter Rabbit review? I’m sorry this new review isn’t Coco but I will do that soon – because I wanted to review this movie because it was so good, and funny. I like […]Archive
April 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
RNZ Reviews: April 2018
Once a month or so I have a chat on RNZ on their Afternoons show with Jesse Mulligan. These things start – randomly and stop in much the same way. I hope to keep doing this. For a while at least. I think I started in December of 2015, so a couple of years into […]Archive
March 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Film Review: Peter Rabbit – Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 6)
Peter Rabbit Director: Will Gluck Sony Pictures Animation Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 6)Archive
January 21, 2018 by Simon Sweetman
Film Review: Paddington 2 – Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 6)
Paddington 2 Director: Paul King Heyday Films/Studio Canal/Canal+ Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 6)Archive
November 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Peter Pan – The Pantomime: Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 6)
Peter Pan – The Pantomime Direction: Susan Wilson (written by Pinky Agnew & Lorae Parry) Circa Theatre; Circa One (Nov 18 – Dec 23/Jan 2-13) Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 6)Archive
November 16, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Oscar & Neneh: Flashback!
I’ve had a few jobs in my life – I usually do more than one at any time. Some of them pay me a wage, others don’t – or barely do. Some of my jobs/tasks just feel like homework, the most relentless kind, self-imposed too, I guess. But the best job I’ve ever had is […]Archive
September 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Film Review: Captain Underpants, The First Epic Movie– Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 5)
Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie Director: David Soren DreamWorks Animation Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 5) Captain Underpants had good songs in it and he got splashed with water and there was a telephone going ‘ring-ring-ring-ring/hello/I am Captain Underpants/what is going on/tra-la-la/tra-tra-tra-tra-la-la/why am I soaking wet’. There was whoopie cushions in it. And Mr Krupp, the mean […]Archive
September 11, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Poem: Big O/little o
Only in dreams will I hear a voice like The Big O. I wake up to my own little o telling me it’s time to make his lunch. It’s a far cry – so blue.Archive
September 3, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 504
Ian Stewart, Piano for Dancing [EP] (1958) The world of second-hand stores is full of these sorts of things – wee curios – old EPs and singles and 78s and 45s and things…and it’s dime a dozen (and often it’s pretty much exactly that, price-wise). Dashed hopes, daunted dreams, forgotten magic. Or just junk. One […]Archive
August 24, 2017 by Simon Sweetman
Not Just Greasy Kids Stuff*: Music For Kids That Adults Dig – and Adult Music That’s Suitable For Children
I have a son. His name is Oscar. He is awesome. I might be (slightly) biased there – but his smiles can make a Gin Wigmore album seem okay. Actually, his mother is quite sure that he likes Gin Wigmore. One of Oscar’s early skills was that he could – silently – back up an […]Archive
July 29, 2017 by Simon Sweetman