Engrossing drama is not always made up of epic moments or tectonic shifts in sentiment. In the case of Marion’s Vernoux’s engaging slice of life film Les Beaux Jours (Bright Days Ahead), it’s composed of a series of quiet, if momentously important, events in the life of Caroline (Fanny Continue Reading
Let’s all dare to be square: New The Boxtrolls trailer is a package of endless delights
SNAPSHOT The new 3D stop-motion and CG hybrid animated feature is a comedic fable that unfolds in Cheesebridge, a posh Victorian-era town obsessed with wealth, class, and the stinkiest of fine cheeses. Beneath its charming cobblestone streets dwell the Boxtrolls, foul monsters who crawl out of the sewers at Continue Reading
Poster me this! VEEP S3, Continuum S3, Mad Men S7, GoT S4 + Maleficent
Eyes, it has been said, are the windows into the soul. A wholly romantic notion, thought not one with some truth, that can be applied to a variety of other things in life … you know, say, TV and movie trailers perhaps. Although they are less windows into a Continue Reading
All hail Worf of Starfleet! (Wolf of Wall Street trailer parody)
You think that Jordan Delfort, the character that Leonard Dicaprio plays in the Academy Award-nominated Martin Scorsese-directed film The Wolf of Wall Street is the ultimate badass? Well, think again because no one wears his badass credentials, not to mention his manliness and honour on his sleeve like Worf Continue Reading
Say hello to the Two Men on Planet Ten
So if we’ve learned anything at all from shows like Star Trek (in all its incarnations), Stargate SG1 and 1001 other sci-fi shows that feature humanity dashing from one corner of the galaxy to another, it’s that exploring another planet is exciting, scary, important, enthralling, educational or a heady Continue Reading
By Your Side (film): Standing with the traumatised children of Fukushima three years on
This week marked the third anniversary of the destructive Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami that struck the Fukishima region of Japan on 11 March 2011, resulting in the deaths of some 16,000 people (2600+ remain officially listed as missing, presumed dead) and the displacement of many tens of thousands more by Continue Reading
Movie review: The Monuments Men
It is, so goes the old saying, impossible to be all things to all men. It is a well regarded truism that the producers of The Monuments Men, including one George Clooney, failed to heed when putting together this two headed hydra of a film which, all things considered, Continue Reading
The nightmare begins again: Falling Skies season 4 (new trailer + air date)
Iy would entirely make sense if the beleaguered members of the 2nd Mass., led once again by the indefatigable Tom Mason (Noah Wyle), would feel like the nightmare is well and truly underway, thank you very much. After all, Earth has been invaded by not one but two alien Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Alone” (S4, E13 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND UNDERTAKERS … AND NE’ER DO WELLS* There’s a good chance that no one in this episode would share Audrey Hepburn’s sentiment “I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.” Oh, there are probably moments, of which there are several, when being Continue Reading
Movie review: Le Week-end
Life is not a kind master on many levels. But perhaps it takes its greatest toll on the close relationships which define us and give us a sense of time and place and belonging, no matter how hard we fight to keep them fresh and vital. Nick and Meg Continue Reading