Ask Rick (Andrew Lincoln), Daryl (Norman Reedus), Michonne (Danai Gurira), Maggie (Lauren Cohen) or even scared-of-his-own-quivering shadow Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam) – being stuck in the middle of a zombie apocalypse is hungry business! Why even the zombies themselves can’t get enough to eat what with the remaining human Continue Reading
The Most Surprised I’ve Ever Been: Marcel the Shell’s small but happy world
I cannot believe it took me this long to discover the anthropomorphic delights of Marcel the Shell With Shoes On. Created by writer/director Dean Fleischer-Camp and writer/actress Jenny Slate, this web-based series of shorts, and an accompanying line of gorgeous picture books (Things About Me, The Most Surprised I’ve Ever Continue Reading
Movie review: Hector and the Search for Happiness
On a quick film-by-film comparison, the Peter Chelsom-dircted Hector and the Search For Happiness, based on the book of the same name by by François Lelord, would seem to share quite a bit of storytelling DNA with that other recent quest for meaning in a moribund life, The Secret Life of Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: Comet (trailer + reviews)
SNAPSHOT Dell (Long) and Kimberly (Rossum) meet at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. They’re each there to watch a meteor shower, Fate, and Dell’s big mouth, help strike up a relationship. That’s one of five different stories Esmail jumps between, almost at random, throughout the course of Continue Reading