SNAPSHOT Short Term 12 stars Brie Larson (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) and John Gallagher Jr. (The Newsroom) as Grace and Mason, a young couple working together in a juvenile care home. Grace is tasked with guiding the troubled youngsters, many of whom come from backgrounds where they have Continue Reading
It’s beginning to look like a scary Grimm Christmas – “Twelve Days of Krampus”
SNAPSHOT After a string of delinquent teens go missing, an old Wesen tale of an evil Santa who brings more than just a lump of coal may be the prime suspect. The investigation intensifies as Nick (David Giuntoli) and Hank (Russell Hornsby) take things a little too far. Meanwhile, Continue Reading
Movie review: The Spectacular Now
When you’re standing on the cusp on adulthood, as Sutter Keely (Miles Teller) is in director James Ponsoldt’s emotionally resonant coming of age tale, The Spectacular Now (based on Tim Tharp’s book of the same name), determining if life is going to be an exhilarating ride into the thrilling unknown, Continue Reading
Now this is music #20: Zendaya, Seinabo Sey, If You Say So, Dornik, Lifelike
Yes everything is beginning to look a LOT like Christmas but don’t forget it’s also sounding a lot like Christmas too! Now even if you love carols as much as I do, you’re still going to need a wee break from all the Christmas music so I have pulled Continue Reading
The Blacklist fall finale: Anslo Garrick parts 1 and 2 (S1, E9, 10 review)
It is always a pleasure discovering that your initial partial negative suppositions about a new show were unfounded and that it is so much more than you expected it to be. As we bid a short, Christmas-hiatus farewell to The Blacklist (known here in Australia as James Spader’s The Continue Reading
Zeitgeist Embyronic #2: 5 more possibly amazing shows in the throes of development
Ah the breathless anticipation of what might be! It’s enough to get the pulse racing, the heart a-thumpin’ and your clammy, trembling hands reaching for the remote, eager to watch those much talked about programs now. Ah-ah-ah not so fast my friends! For many of these shows are Continue Reading
Rip’d from the pages of my childhood: The Hardy Boys
How I didn’t end up as a detective in a police force somewhere solving crimes and living out of a mysterious hidden headquarters I will never know. Given the amount of mystery series aimed at children and teens that I voraciously read in my defining years – clearly not Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Too Far Gone” (S4, E8 review)
*Yes there are spoilers … and walkers … and bloodbaths and mayhem* And so the end has come – well the mid-season end anyway with no new season 4 episodes till February 2014 – giving us two wholly different but emphatic answers to the great thematic question of this Continue Reading
Poster me this #5: Muppets Most Wanted, Wolf of Wall Street, Paddington, The Invisible Woman,The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Ah the end of the year. So many movies, so little time (yes even with holidays at our disposal, there seems to be more cinematic temptations on offer than there are hours available to spend sitting in darkened theatres, popcorn in hand)! Working out just what to watch is Continue Reading
ABBA’s Ring Ring Deluxe Edition (history of the album + review)
After over 40 years in the public spotlight, it is easy enough to assume that ABBA were always ABBA, four talented Swedes who somehow emerged from the womb as a joint entity, their fates already intertwined, their birthright already sealed as the creators and purveyors of some of the Continue Reading