All hail the music-listening Australian Kelpie! He has had the good sense to pick out, along with some help from my good self, four Aussie artists (plus one more than worthy American ring in) to populate this instalment of Now This is Music. All five of the artists are Continue Reading
Movie review: Pride
It can be hard to imagine, as the idealists are want to have us do, a world in which people of vastly opposing views come together and get to know one another in a way that transcends trite social niceties, bonding in ways so powerful that real, life-affecting change happens. Continue Reading
First impressions: Gotham (S1, E1 “Pilot” / E2 “Selina Kyle”)
The world is an irredeemably wicked and violent place from which little to no good can ever come. Grimly cynical yes but that seems to be the prevailing worldview of almost everyone in Gotham, a city ruled over by a witches brew of organised crime and institutionalised corruption where Continue Reading
Poster me this: Character art for The Hobbit Battle of the Five Armies
SNAPSHOT From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, the third in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies brings to an epic conclusion the adventures of Bilbo Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “No Sanctuary” (S5, E1 review)
“You’re either the butchers or the cattle.” That soberingly bleak assessment of the existential options left open for humanity in the morally scorched earth environs of the zombie apocalypse pretty much summed up the thematic underpinning for The Walking Dead‘s unrelentingly fierce, action-packed, flaming walkers and cannibals (hurrah!) opening episode of season 5, Continue Reading
Please look after this bear’s marmalade sandwiches: New Paddington poster
SNAPSHOT From David Heyman, the producer of Harry Potter and Gravity, Paddington is set to be the must-see family film this Christmas. Paddington has grown up deep in the Peruvian jungle with his Aunt Lucy who, inspired by a chance encounter with an English explorer, has raised her nephew Continue Reading
Movie review: Gone Girl
If the institution of marriage is ever looking for a PR agent to burnish its reputation to the world at large, it would do well to avoid the services of one Gillian Flynn. The author of the bestselling book Gone Girl, upon which this beautifully-wrought if emotionally-unnerving adaptation by acclaimed Continue Reading
So little time, so much Star Wars … so Mashable gloriously compresses the saga into three minutes
Star Wars is, let’s face it, the granddaddy of all iconic science fiction tales, a “genre defining classic” in the words of Mashable, that must be watched as often as is humanly possible. The only trouble is we’re all so busy these days what with the new Golden Age Continue Reading
All aboard for Tomorrowland (poster + teaser trailer)
SNAPSHOT From Disney comes two-time Oscar winner Brad Bird’s riveting, mystery adventure Tomorrowland, starring Academy Award winner George Clooney. Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank, jaded by disillusionment, and Casey, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art: Friends go minimal and look brilliantly quotable doing it
Now this, THIS is how you celebrate the 20th anniversary of Friends first going to air! Allison Hoover, a “Miami Ad School art student and Friends superfan”, recently profiled on Mashable by Andrea Romano, decided to honour the show she loves with not one but a multitude of evocatively-colourful, beautifully Continue Reading