Casey Langton

  • Since its cinema release in June, Pixar’s Lightyear has attracted a considerable amount of criticism.

    One BBC review has dubbed it a ‘frustratingly slow, melancholy drama’ with other sources also dubbing t […]

  • Released on 22 July, Beach Bunny’s newest album has been described by Rolling Stone as “Part Nineties Rom-Com, Part Tiktok-Era Indie-Pop Breakthrough”. They are absolutely right. The album charts a course t […]

  • Published in May, Ada Limón’s newest poetry collection, The Hurting Kind, is a crash course on the very fundamentals of being a human and feeling like one too. Published by Milkweed Editions, this collection is […]

  • Described as “a poem for voices”, Fool’s Paradise by Zoe Brooks is a longform poem inspired in part by Brooks’ visit to Prague soon after the Velvet Revolution. Parts of the poem were first published in 1992 in […]

  • On 1 June, HBO announced that their new romantic comedy show Our Flag Means Death had been renewed for a second season. The announcement came two months after the show’s final two episodes aired, following an o […]

  • 2021 was an exceptional year for booksellers, it seems, with a 39% increase in sales compared to 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Bookstore sales suffered in 2020, likely due to various pandemic […]

  • 17 February marks the tenth anniversary of the release of Disney’s US dub of Studio Ghibli movie The Secret World Of Arrietty (or Arrietty for short).

    The film was released in Japan two years prior under t […]

  • It seems that throughout the last couple of years we’ve been up to our eyeballs in Roald Dahl adaptations, not unlike Augustus Gloop in the chocolate river—although our experience hasn’t always been quite as sw […]

  • After soaring ratings for the second series on Channel 5 (airing in the States on PBS through to February), the newly beloved reboot of All Creatures Great And Small has been renewed for two more series. It’s b […]

  • Casey Langton wrote a new post 4 years ago

    Robin Robin takes a tired stereotype and breathes life back into it in this charming childrens tale

    As much as there are some formulae within the realm of children’s films and television that do work w […]

  • As far as on screen adaptations go, those based on works by late author Terry Pratchett seem to be like Marmite; you love them, or you hate them. 

    They are either excellent or painfully mediocre, and there […]