Could making the musical acquaintance of a pair of talented multi-instrumentalists from California, real life couple Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn, who have named their combined entity Pomplamoose after a delightful play on the French word for grapefruit pamplemousse, possibly have made my week, month and year just a short while Continue Reading
Book review: Existence by David Brin
Existence is the future stripped bare of science fiction fallacies, Star Trek day dreaming and wishful thinking. And you know what? It’s not as bleak a read as you might think. Certainly humanity has more than its fair share of pressing issues on its hands – climate change is Continue Reading
Community meets The Walking Dead in the best opening credits ever
If ever there was a marriage made in pop culture heaven, it’s the bringing together of Community and The Walking Dead, two shows with rabidly passionate fan bases and zeitgeist-defining takes on the world. Community is particularly suited to the apocalyptic credits gifted to it by Youtube user atsp88, Continue Reading
This is Ulaanbaatar calling! Coldplay’s surprise new song Midnight
I have felt it … and it seems many others have too. The sense that we know too much, too soon and for too long before it appears in this digital age. That all the fun, the element of surprise has disappeared in a world where we have teaser Continue Reading
Movie review: Nebraska
Nebraska is a remarkable movie. Not least because director Alexander Payne (About Schmidt, Sideways) chose to film his exploration of a father (Woody Grant played by veteran actor Bruce Dern in fine form) and a son (David Grant, rendered with exasperated poignancy by Will Forte) finding a meeting point Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Claimed” (S4, E11)
In this week’s instalment of Fractured Apocalyptic Tales, with everyone’s favourite prison group still scattered to the walker-infested four winds, Michonne got more than a touch of the Pharrell Williams, Carl fancied himself a quizmaster, Rick dived under beds and off awnings, and Glenn got stubborn as a mule Continue Reading
Movie review: C. O. G. #MardiGrasFilmFestival
C. O. G. is a curiously lifeless film. It’s a particularly odd outcome when you consider it is based on one of noted essayist David Sedaris’ boisterously witty and incisive biographical pieces, which sparkle with verve and a thousand and one ideas and opinions. With material that emotionally and Continue Reading
The hilariously honest trailer for Oscar contender Gravity
There are many things I enjoyed about 2013 (and some I did including losing my job: yeah, no, still don’t know where I put it! Boom! Tish!), and prime among them was Alfonso Cuarón’s mesmerising film Gravity, starring my favourite actor in the world (and in this case, orbiting above Continue Reading
Intrigued to see: Maladies
SNAPSHOT A daring new film from internationally acclaimed multimedia artist Carter, Maladies charts the struggles of an unstable former soap opera star in 1960s New York as he tries to restart his floundering creative career. Hoping to find clarity and new purpose as a writer, he holes up with Continue Reading
Hello Sauron! Looking down at Middle Earth from space
If you watched in awe as a certain company of dwarves and one initially out of his depth Hobbit called Bilbo Baggins rode atop an impressive flock of Thorondor’s Giant Eagles in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, wishing you too could sit aloft these might birds and see Middle Continue Reading