Is there nothing that LEGO cannot do? On the basis of The LEGO Movie, countless LEGO playsets and countless hours I spent as a child building everything from mansions to spaceships and boats out of the endlessly useful Danish coloured blocks, I would have to say a big hearty Continue Reading
Marvellous massing of movie trailers: Three upcoming cinematic tales of love
Love comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes. The delicious all-encompassing wonderfulness of falling headlong, deeply and completely in love. The unfailingly strong bonds of lifelong friendship. And the sometimes strained, often dysfunctional but usually steadfast love that holds every family together. While this is by no means Continue Reading
Home is where Coldplay’s video for A Sky Full of Stars is
This was not a good week to be Andrew the ardent Coldplay fan. Not only did I fail to get tickets to their one-and-only Ghost Stories concert in Australia, at the Enmore Theatre, a mere 15 minutes walk from where I live, but I also ended up having to Continue Reading
That’s the way we play Game of Thrones: Wil Wheaton’s hilariously inspired take on the show’s title sequence
For a man who is likely the last person on Earth to have not watched any episodes of The Game of Thrones, I have managed in just one week to feature not one but two enormously clever clips referencing this zeitgeist-bestriding show. In this case, it’s an inordinately clever Continue Reading
Now this is music #31: Bleachers, Ghost Estates, Go Wolf, machineheart, Little India
Yep, I know what you’re all thinking. The teddy bear (above) should be up and dancing, rather than lolly-gagging around in plush toy bliss. And while normally I would say “Hey just let the bear sit a spell; being played with by children a lot is exhausting”, in this Continue Reading
Farewell forever to Warehouse 13: “Endless” (series finale review)
Saying goodbye to a much-loved TV show is never easy. After spending years, episode in, and episode out with a group of characters you have to know, love and deeply appreciate who inhabit a world you would probably very much like to call your own, they are gone, living Continue Reading
Movie review: Ida
Ida, a starkly beautiful black and white film from director Pawel Pawlikowski, begins much as it means to go on – in austere, almost confronting, silence. In the snowy depths of a brutally cold 1962 Polish winter, three novice nuns, a week away from taking their final vows, are quietly Continue Reading
Worlds beyond and within our own: Ascension, Dominion, The Expanse + The Anomaly
We’re going back to the stars people! And where we are staying earthbound, the heavens are coming to us, although if the storyline of Dominion is any guide, we’d probably much rather it hadn’t. The good news is that epic, adventurous sci-fi narratives, which seemed to go out vogue Continue Reading
Total cinematic immersion: The fun of watching the first 5 minutes of 10,000 movies in just 5 minutes
Pressed for time? Wondering how you will get through that mountainous, teetering pile of movies banking up on your PVR? Despairing of ever discovering how Jim the bike courier (Cillian Murphy) survives the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse in 28 Days Later or, curious whether the path of true Continue Reading
Summer TV lovin’: Gonna have us a blast!
Summer loving had me a blast ohh yeah Summer loving happened so fast I met a network crazy for me Met a TV show cute as can be (Sandy from Grease circa 2014) You can sense it can’t you? After a long cold winter when the nights were long Continue Reading