Cinematic visions of mankind’s future usually go one of three ways. Either our successors are trapped in a bleak, dystopian wasteland where a dog-eat-dog mentality prevails and there is little hope of any real improvement (or a working lightbulb and you can forget about a picnic out in the Continue Reading
“The Walking Dead”: episode 11 ‘I Ain’t No Judas’ (review)
No one ever said life in the apocalypse, zombie or otherwise, would be easy. But just how hard it is was on full display this week in “I Ain’t No Judas”. A quieter, more character-interaction oriented episode, it mainly concerned itself with Andrea’s (Laurie Holden) quest to bring some Continue Reading
Is it the end of the world as “Warehouse 13” knows it? (return date + trailer)
When last we left our intrepid artifact-tracking team from Warehouse 13, Peter (Eddie McClintock), Myka (Joanne Kelly), Claudia (Allison Scagliotti) and Steve (Aaron Ashmore) had cornered Artie (Saul Rubinek), who thanks to some astrolabe-induced time-fiddling had turned a less-than-attractive shade of evil (in fairness while successfully trying to resurrect Continue Reading
Movie review: “Gayby” (Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival)
Comedies are, by and large, notoriously hit-and-miss propositions. You are either presented with a witty laugh-out-loud script, ripe with side-clutching comedic possibilities that is rendered mute and barely tolerable by actors who are unable to bring the words to life with sufficient verve or timing, or you have highly Continue Reading
The “Veep” is back in The (White) House for season 2
There is little doubt (unless you are a member of the sceptics society in which case it’s pretty much all you have) that Julia Louis-Dreyfus is one of the most gifted comedians on TV at the moment. Her preternatural gift for delivering just the right inflection or facial expression Continue Reading
Sneak Peek: Jack the Giant Slayer (trailer + poster)
Jack the Giant Slayer, directed by X-men’s Brian Singer, is set to bring the fairytale of Jack and the Beanstalk to the big screen in suitably epic fashion. In keeping with the tendency of modern effects-laden blockbusters to modernise and amplify the original tale, Jack (played by Nicholas Hoult, Continue Reading
Movie review: “The Sex of the Angels” (Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival)
Love, it is often said, is forever. And while that much-quoted truism is taken as a given in director Xavier Villaverde’s film El Sexo de Los Angeles (translated as The Sex of the Angels on the official Mardi Gras program or slightly less literally as Angels of Sex on the trailer), Continue Reading
Pixar re-imagining the original “Star Trek”? Make it so.
It’s a great time to be alive my friends. Not just because of the, you know, “alive” part of which very few negative things can be said (apart from the existence of Reality TV and the continuing prevalence of raw tomato in salads), but, and this is also important, Continue Reading
Sneak peek: ‘The Monster Isolation’ (“The Big Bang Theory”)
In this week’s hilarious episode of The Big Bang Theory – no that isn’t being cocky; it will be and you know it – Sheldon comes ridiculously close to acting like a normal human being when he thanks Penny for her help the night before. But at the last Continue Reading
The joy eclectic: Take 2 episodes of “Fringe” (S5), and add 2 episodes of “Suburgatory” (S2) … and watch
PLUS One of the many joys of the current golden age of television, which may or may not have ended depending on who you listen to – no prizes for guessing where I stand on the issue – is the insanely large variety of shows on offer. Continue Reading