I love those random moments in life when you decide to do one thing instead of the other – for the record I was supposed to starting the next module of my online Photoshop course and chose to graze down my Facebook timeline instead; best procrastinating ever! – and Continue Reading
Play God. Pay the price: the new extended Helix trailer
Helix, the latest show from Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica), is increasingly looking like another chillingly salutary lesson in what happens when humanity gets delusions of grandeur and overextends itself, with unforeseen devastating consequences the nightmarish result. What starts out a routine operation to a remote privately-run arctic research facility Continue Reading
My 5 favourite Pixar short films
Pixar, which began life as the Graphics Group, part of LucasFilm, back in 1979, producing high end computer imaging hardware, and was once owned by Steve Jobs until sold to Disney in 2006 for $7.4 billion, is generally regarded as the preeminent purveyor of modern computer animation. Films like Toy Continue Reading
A multiplicity of trailers for Orphan Black season 2 (2014)
SEASON 2 SNAPSHOT Season two of the series hits the ground running with Sarah (Tatiana Maslany, Picture Day, Parks and Recreation) in a desperate race to find her missing daughter Kira (Skyler Wexler, Carrie). Her scorched earth tactics spark a war with pro-clone, Rachel (Maslany), dividing and imperiling all Continue Reading
Girls (and guys) just wanna have a watch of the Girls season 3 trailer
They’re back! And as blissfully unaware, emotionally screwed up and hilarious as ever. Yes, Hannah (Lena Dunham, who is also the creator and executive producer of the show), Marnie (Allison Williams), Jessa (Jemima Kirke) and Shoshanna Shapiro (Zosia Mamet) are back for a third serving of twenty-something angst and Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Dead Weight” (S4, E7 review)
*DIRTY, NASTY, LEADER-CULLING SPOILERS AHEAD* If you, like me, bought last episode’s version of the Governor (David Morrissey), all boxed up in his shiny, new family man guise, complete with all new added tenderness and endless kindness or your money back, you may want to ask for a refund Continue Reading
Birthday movie review: Filth
Irvine Welsh, the immeasurably talented author of the 1998 book on which Filth, the story of corrupt Scott copper Bruce Robertson (James McAvoy) who is rapidly lose his already tenuous hold on reality, is based, has quite accurately described this much-delayed movie adaptation as “an ultra-dark, head-fucking film.” It Continue Reading
Not just for birthdays … Pharrell Williams wants you Happy all the time
I come across an extraordinary amount of songs as I graze across the vast new digital musical landscape but rarely does a song make me so euphorically, well, happy as Pharrell Williams new single, appropriately titled “Happy”. It is a joy to listen to, to dance to, to put Continue Reading
Happy birthday to … 5 of my favourite fictional characters (#2)
I am a madly sentimental guy. If it’s an important event like say my birthday (which it is today) or Christmas or a family or friend’s birthday, I will go all out to make sure the day is as perfect as possible with chronic over-catering, balloons, accessories or trees Continue Reading
Doctor Who turns 50: Review of Day of the Doctor
*SPOILERS, SWEET, SPOILERS!* There are many days in which it is very good to be a lifelong fan and companion of Doctor Who, the mysterious, enigmatic, currently bow-tie loving hitherto last of the Time Lords but today … well, today was a very good day indeed. For today Continue Reading