SNAPSHOT Written by Sofia Coppola, Bill Murray and Mitch Glazer and directed by Sofia Coppola, ‘A Very Murray Christmas’ is an homage to the classic variety show featuring Bill Murray playing himself, as he worries no one will show up to his TV show due to a terrible snow Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The Peanuts gang channel their inner Indiana Jones characters
I have always thought there is nothing that the Peanuts gang cannot do. Flying Sopwith Camels in dog fights with the Red Baron, waiting all night in a pumpkin field for the Great Pumpkin to arrive, and god bless you Charlie Brown, chasing after The Little Red-Haired Girl, and Continue Reading
Kick some undead ass! The well-dressed trailer for Pride, Prejudice and Zombies
Purists, particularly those of the Austin persuasion, avert your unsullied eyes now! For the rest of us, who enjoy a jolly good mash-up of Jane Austen social commentary and some very zeitgeisty undead-ness, gaze upon the relatively all-new trailer – I held it over for Halloween itself; the trailer Continue Reading
A whole new world of Robin Williams as Aladdin: newly-released footage shows the much-missed comic genius in action
There’s a very good reason why Robin Williams, who tragically passed away last year after battling depression for much of his life, is so revered as a comic genius. In role after after role, he poured his heart and soul into the characters he played, investing them with so Continue Reading
Movie review: The Intern
It’s a near universally-acknowledged truth, observed by the writer of Proverbs in the Bible and keen observers of the human condition, that people need a compelling reason to get up in the morning and writer/director Nancy Meyer (Something’s Gotta Give, It’s Complicated) takes that much remarked-upon idea and runs Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Love sweet Giant Robots From Outer Space love
Love, so says the popular idiom, is blind. That piece of pithy wisdom, the veracity of which has been proved time and again by romantic entanglements too numerous to mention, has never been truer than in this delightful short film from Valentin Watrigant, François Guery, Elsa Lamy, Aurelien Fernandez, and Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “First Time Again” (S6, E1 review)
* SPOILERS … AND A MOTHER LOAD OF WALKERS ALL WALKING YOR WAY AHEAD * “One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.” (Jean Rostand) No prizes for guessing which side of the equation the walkers, and there are an Continue Reading
“No one is going into an inter-dimensional rift!” The Librarians S2 trailer
Not that long ago, I was in mourning as a whole lot of quirky, tongue-in-cheek, postmodern-mythos-laden, fun-and-adventure shows I adored suddenly blinked out of televisual existence. One minute I was watching Eureka, Sanctuary and Warehouse 13 and the next? I was not. Well not new episodes anyway. And then Continue Reading
Book review: The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald
Humanity has an appealing way of investing people, places and things with attributes that they may not otherwise possess. Whether we do it because we firmly believe deep down they are there, or perhaps more likely, because we wish they were there, we are most firmly in the business Continue Reading
All of Matt Damon’s films in just 8 minutes? James Corden (The Late Late Show) can help you with that!
Can there be such a thing as too much Matt Damon? No, of course not – what a crazy thing to even ask! But should you not have a million hours in the day, and short of some Doctor Who-esque jiggery-pokery with timey-wimey, it’s unlikely you do, and Continue Reading