One of the best parts of keeping an eagle eye on the pop culture landscape is witnessing the amazing outpouring of creativity that goes into the promotion of TV shows and movies. Admittedly keeping tabs on this tsunami of promotional activities can all feel a little overwhelming at times but Continue Reading
“Sequel! SEQUEL!” The Muppets Most Wanted’s Animal-istic new teaser trailer
SNAPSHOT “The idea of this film is that our gang is on this global tour, and we’re selling out these grand theaters all over Europe—in Berlin, Madrid, London—but we sort of get into a little bit of trouble when we run across my doppelganger. He’s the world’s number one criminal Continue Reading
In concert: P!NK – The Truth About Love tour, Sydney, Wednesday 7 August 2013
“Love is sunshine and puppies, flowers and nipple clamps” (Rubix Von Füchenhürtz aka P!NK’s concert host Jimmy Slonina) It’s a rare thing to turn up at a concert of one of your favourite music artists and feel like you really matter to the performer on stage. (Beyond, of course, Continue Reading
Cookie Monster? I love him! (And he loves Icona Pop … and cookies)
Cookie Monster is back, cookies naturally enough in hand! But this time he is willing to wait for his tasty treats … well longer than normal at least. As a prelude to their 44th season, which launches on 16 September, Sesame Street has unveiled its latest parody song, a Continue Reading
Movie and TV trailer-palooza returns! Paradise, Sherlock, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
More trailers for everyone! Yes I appreciate that sounds like the sort of the slogan that a movie mogul running for re-election would use – you know, assuming they had to run for re-election, which you know, they, um, don’t … moving on … – but it is exactly Continue Reading
Two new movies “American Hustle” and “Jayne Mansfield’s Car” are rockin’ the retro
SNAPSHOT A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle tells the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld (Christian Bale), who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser (Amy Adams) is forced Continue Reading
Falling Skies: Review of “Road to Xibalba” (s3, e9)
After revving things up considerably last week, after a few episodes where Falling Skies almost spluttered to a narrative stop, this week’s episode “Road to Xibalba” (a reference to the name of the underworld in K’iche’ Maya mythology which roughly translates as a “place of fear) put the pedal to Continue Reading
Justice is served: Short film “Villainous” reveals the fate of comic book baddies
Oh the sweet power of a tale tautly and imaginatively told. Villainous is a remarkable short film I came across via laughing squid.com, made by talented filmmaker Paul Constantakis, who wrote and directed this visually delightful and powerful story. In three far-too-short minutes – not that the story is Continue Reading
The decay of a colossal wreck: The quietly ominous new trailer for “Breaking Bad”
SNAPSHOT: Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell Continue Reading
Movie review: “Pacific Rim”
While Gulliermo del Toro’s monster masterpiece, Pacific Rim, is hardly a work of Shakespearian splendour, it is also not the braindead blockbuster monstrosity that many purported it to be. Granted it has all the trappings of the latter – cardboard-cutout characters, an overly-earnest seriously-intoned opening narration replete with cliches Continue Reading