It is impossible to watch Guillermo del Toro’s latest gothic horror masterpiece, Crimson Peak, without wondering if there is more to be feared from the living than the dead. It is a question that Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska), would have more cause to muse on than most, after her Continue Reading
Halloween short: Dream a little dream of Freddy Krueger
OK so here’s two things you don’t usually see together – Freddy Krueger from the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and 1931 song “Dream a Little Dream of Me”, recorded by among many others Mama Cass Elliot of The Mamas and the Papas. But in this highly entertaining Continue Reading
Now this is music #57: Max and the Moon, Postiljonen, Cheat Codes, Lost Kings, Philco Fiction
Light and dark. They go together more often than we’d like to admit in life, the melancholic sitting cheek-by-jowl with the ecstatic, and so it makes perfect sense that it would find expression in music. The five bands and duos features know this lesson of life well and have distilled Continue Reading
The Gilmore Girls are back! Where they lead, I will follow …
Gilmore Girls is, hands down, one of my favourite ever TV series. It’s not simply the storybook setting of Stars Hollow, Connecticut, the engaging mother-daughter pairing of Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel), the fast-paced, witty, wordy (in the best possible sense) dialogue stuffed full of insightful, deftly-placed Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Thank You” (S6, E3 review)
* SPOILERS AHEAD … AS WELL AS MORE ZOMBIES THAN YOU SHELTER ON A DUMPSTER FROM * If there’s one thing we’ve learned in six seasons of The Walking Dead, and most particularly in last week’s gory attack on Alexandria, it’s that death and the apocalypse go together like inseparable Continue Reading
Run away! The aliens are coming to get you in Hunters
SNAPSHOT From executive producers Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead, The Terminator trilogy) andNatalie Chaidez (12 Monkeys, Heroes), Hunters is inspired by Whitley Strieber’s best-selling novel, Alien Hunter, in which the disappearance of a decorated FBI agent’s wife leads him to a secret government unit assembled to hunt a Continue Reading
Movie review: Mistress America
People, by and large, are not a terribly self-aware bunch. Sure they know what do they and don’t like in broad, abstract terms – chocolate vs. vanilla ice cream, beach holiday vs. the snow – and even on some deeper existential questions, but in general, many of us are Continue Reading
Talent that will not be denied: Trumbo defies censorship in new trailer
SNAPSHOT The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. TRUMBO (directed by Jay Roach) tells the story of his fight against the U.S. government and studio bosses in a war Continue Reading
Think you know everything about Canada eh? Doco Being Canadian may make you reconsider
Stereotypes are funny things. Sure they allow pretty much everyone to get a handle on an issue, a person or an entire nation in record time, and yes, there are some elements of truth to them, but by and large, they’re not really all that accurate, and hence, not Continue Reading
Stay between the lines: Games of Thrones and Outlander colouring books are on their way
In case you missed it, adult colouring books are IN. With a host of benefits ranging from switching creative gears and the increased productivity that results to simply getting in touch with your inner child, lots of very grown up people including someone you probably know, are getting their Continue Reading