The first episode in any new season of a show you truly love is usually a cause for celebration. But while “Endless Terror”, the premiere episode in the fifth season of Warehouse 13, was welcomed with open arms by this longtime fan and no doubt many others, any joy Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2014: Week 4 – Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway
WHAT IS THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST? Started way back in 1956 as a way to draw a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
Movie review: Muppets Most Wanted
To the eternal joy of anyone with a beating pulse, a love of the warmly chaotic and the irreverently sentimental, Kermit, Miss Piggy and the gang are together again, again (no, the second “again” is not a mistype), singing, dancing and running some bulls (and Gonzo) to a theatre Continue Reading
Some thoughts on HBO’s Looking after binge watching its first season
It can be very odd seeing who you are and the supposed lifestyle you lead portrayed on the big or small screen. Or at least the idea of what your life is like. Quite often, it is nothing like the reality, which is fine since television is a dramatic Continue Reading
Whoosh! Almost the entire history of film in three dazzling minutes
What an impressive achievement! Scott Ewing, a film fanatic of some considerable devotion, has created a brilliant montage of films showcasing the evolution of film from Eadweard Muybridge in 1878, a noted English motion picture pioneer, through to the Lumiere brothers in 1895, George Melies’ 1902 classic A Trip to Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art: My Little Pony gets some pop culture geek chic
On the off chance that you crawled under a very large rock somewhere around 1991 and have yet to emerge, I am here to tell you that the 1980s, home to Duran Duran, Hypercolor T-shirts and Dallas, among many other shoulder pad-accented things, are back in a big way, Continue Reading
If I was there, I would Wish I Was Here (poster + trailer + songs)
SNAPSHOT WISH I WAS HERE tells the story of Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, husband and dad who at 35 is still trying to find his true place in life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially, and Aidan passes his time fantasising about being the futuristic Continue Reading
Now where did I leave that CGI? Jurassic Park without the visual bells and whistles
Impressive though CGI often is, it’s a common complaint in many blockbusters that the special effects can often overshadow the storyline (assuming if there is a meaningful one, of course) with more attention to the all the visual accessories than to the characters or the plot. While that’s certainly Continue Reading
Book review: The Collected Works of A. J. Fikry
We are accustomed in our loud, brash, 24/7 news cycle world to marking life’s big, momentous moments, the 10th anniversary of this, the 75th celebration of that, our calendars jammed full of the epic, the noteworthy, the hard to miss. While there is, of course, nothing intrinsically wrong with Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: 7 impressively creative mini-films
There is, you may be surprised to learn, no firm definition on what a short film actually is. While there is a consensus that it is not as long as a feature film, something I would have thought would have been patently obvious if you have watched any of Continue Reading