Something altogether unexpected happened to Western music charts in 2012 when Korean singer PSY‘s song “Gangnam Style”, a viral phenomenon on social media (he became the first Korean artist to top the iTunes Music Video Charts), shot to #1 in countries around the world, including most importantly the world’s Continue Reading
“Those aren’t mountains, those are waves”: Interstellar’s latest magnificent trailer
Christopher Nolan is the go to man if you’re looking for sharply-written, brilliantly-articulated sci-fi films with as much substance as they have visual style. It’s the reason why his latest masterpiece Interstellar – no, I haven’t seen it but after movies like the masterful Inception and the moody but insightful Dark Continue Reading
“Gorgonzola is attacking us Captain!” Star Drunk, an hilarious space drama by drunk people
Going into space is not for the fainthearted. I am not saying that from personal experience of course since (a) I am not Neil Armstrong or any of the other 23 men who ventured to the moon during NASA’s golden age of lunar exploration, (b) Laika, a dog Continue Reading
Scorpion: “Pilot” (S1, E1 review)
Scorpion is, on paper at least – and let’s face it, none of the characters, save for possibly veteran FBI special Agent Gabe Callo (Robert Patrick), would be seen dead around anything so physical and antiquated – a bundle of well-used network formula drama tropes that have been gathered together from various police Continue Reading