Our countdown to Warehouse 13 gracing our archive-chasing-deprived screens once more is down to just one gloriously short week. Tick … tock … tick … tock … you get the idea … Anyway, to tide you over till season 4.5 kicks off – strictly speaking it kind of has Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “R.I.P.D.”
MOVIE SYNOPSIS Directed by Robert Schwentke (Red), R.I.P.D. centers on dead cops who work for the “Rest in Peace Department,” with Ryan Reynolds playing Nick Walker, a newly deceased cop and Jeff Bridges taking on the role of his partner, a seasoned R.I.P.D. veteran. The film also stars Mary Continue Reading
First impressions: “Defiance”
Once more to the apocalypse, dear friends, once more! I am not sure that Shakespeare had an alien-terraformed Earth in mind when he penned almost those words in Henry V all those centuries ago, but they seem apt in the face of another TV series set in a not-too-distant Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “Admission”
MOVIE SYNOPSIS Tina Fey and Paul Rudd star in director Paul Weitz’s comedy about an uptight Princeton admissions officer who encounters a teenage prodigy who may be her long-lost son while recruiting students from an alternative high school. Years ago, Portia Nathan (Fey) quietly placed her newborn son up Continue Reading
Now this is music #5: My 5 favourite songs of the week
My virtual radio spilleth over. So much music, so many talented artists … and so little time (and space on my iPod). Picking just five songs out of the maelstrom of the audio tsunami that washes over me daily has been a challenge but I have managed it – Continue Reading
Trust me, everyone needs a “G.B.F.”
MOVIE SYNOPSIS The bitter fight for supremacy between a school’s most popular girls takes an unexpected turn when Tanner (Michael J. Willett) becomes its first openly gay student. As they race to bag the big trend in fashion accessories, the Gay Best Friend, Tanner must choose between skyrocketing popularity Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision: week 2 – Ukraine, The Netherlands, Montenegro, Lithuania, Belarus
WHAT IS THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST? Started way back in 1956 as a way to draw a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
LEGO toys around with “Iron Man 3”
We are a mere week away – a week my friends! – from Iron Man 3 blasting onto our cinema screens and LEGO have joined the promotional fray with their playful interpretations of already released movie posters. There will of course be a specially designed line of building blocks, Continue Reading
Movie review: “Oblivion”
Is it possible to be alive and yet not truly be fully conscious of who you are? Or to lose some crucial part of yourself on the journey through life and not even be aware of it? These rather grandiose but nonetheless basic questions are at the heart of Continue Reading
Behold the Eurovision 2013 anthem: Music fit for a “Dancing Queen”
I think it’s fairly safe to say that if you were to offer a dyed-in-the-wool ABBA fan three wishes, their first wish, which likely would be repeated three times anyway with ever-increasing levels of breathless excitement, would be the reformation of the iconic 70s pop supergroup. Speculation that the Continue Reading