Saying goodbye to someone you love is never easy. Or in the case of Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton, a legendary movie reviewing duo who presented their last show on Australia’s public national broadcaster ABC last night, well nigh impossible. These two impressively articulate, cinema-literate movie lovers were an Continue Reading
Parks and Recreation season 7 has a start date … and sadly a finish one too
Some wise person once remarked, no doubt in an advanced state of rationalisation wherein they tried to convince themselves that something truly awful coming to pass was in fact a blessing in disguise, that all good things must come to end. I am not quite sure why that necessarily Continue Reading
First impressions: The Flash
Well viewers, looks like the streets have just got that little bit safer. If you live in a fictitious city that is, not far from another fictitious city of course, one with lax planning regulations that allows particle accelerators to set up on picturesque riverbanks, smack bang in the Continue Reading
Sings some songs of Yuletide parody: Jimmy Fallon and Rashida Jones pay musical tribute to the holidays
Turducken for one, anyone? For sure, but only if you’ll “Drink with me/ ’cause I hate my family” … It seems like a fair swap, especially in the midst of the crazy frenetic, brain-melting busyness of the festive season when all the stresses of life seem to be distilled Continue Reading
Who will fight the Robot Overlords? (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT “It has been three years since the robot invasion of earth. Sean Flynn has never given up hope that his missing father might still be alive. All humans have been fitted with transmitters to ensure they obey the cardinal rule of the robot empire — that they stay Continue Reading
Festive FUNX3: Jingle Bell Rocks! documentary, Kristen Bell’s “Text Me Merry Christmas” and Grumpy Cat’s Worst Christmas Ever
I am a Christmas music junkie. Hell I am a Christmas junkie full stop. But one of the things I love most about the season, and which I appreciate many other people hate (especially those in retail who are listening to festive tunes from October onwards), are the Christmas Continue Reading
Playing with stormtroopers: fun riffs on Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser trailer
One of the best ways of working out how big a movie or TV release is these days is seeing if it receives the LEGO treatment and in what kind of timeframe. The quicker the LEGO-isation, and yes that is now a word, the higher your pop culture phenomenon Continue Reading
If only: An art exhibition that showcases posters for movie sequels we wish had been made
Have you noticed something when it comes to the sorts of movies Hollywood produces? They never seem to make sequels of the movies we really want to immerse ourselves in again and churn ones for movies better left alone – Speed 2 anyone? Nah I didn’t think so. Thankfully, Continue Reading
Now this is music #42: POOM, Ghost Loft, MyLyricalMind, Pomplamoose, Misun
The theme of the latest collection of musical riches to grace this series is diversity, reflected not only in the spread of sounds offered by the musicians featured but also in their willingness to play around with said sounds, to push and squeeze and cajole into all manner of sonically-pleasiong Continue Reading
Movie review: Nightcrawler
When you first see Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal), the sociopathic protagonist of Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler (Gilroy both wrote and directed the film), you are struck by his haggard, gaunt, sunken-eyes appearance, as if his body has long fled, leaving behind only a husk of a man. And in many ways Continue Reading