I have always loved and adored slapstick. Done well, and with a suitable every-gathering momentum in place,it can be a real joy to watch; not to mention a laughfest par excellence that builds in intensity to the point where your sides ache, bits of food go flying out of Continue Reading
Book review: When the Floods Came by Clare Morrall
Humanity is nothing if not predictable. Faced with a civilisation-ending event, we tend to either band together for greater strength and survivability, embark on a means-justify-the-ends campaign of selfish aggrandisement or hide ourselves, willing the world to abandon us to our self-sufficient bolt-hole. It’s this final option that has Continue Reading
Dachshunds go indie: Weiner-Dog, Todd Solondz’s latest offbeat masterpiece
SNAPSHOT From director Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness), Wiener-Dog is a dark, starkly funny story of a single dog and the many different people she touches over her short lifetime. Man’s best friend starts out teaching a young boy some contorted life lessons before being taken in Continue Reading
Poster Me This: Bright arty Star Trek Beyond characters posters
SNAPSHOT Star Trek Beyond, the highly-anticipated next installment in the globally popular Star Trek franchise, created by Gene Roddenberry and reintroduced by J.J. Abrams in 2009, returns with director Justin Lin (The Fast and the Furious franchise) at the helm of this epic voyage of the U.S.S. Enterprise and Continue Reading
Movie review: Now You See Me 2
The loss of the novelty effect, that deliriously exciting sense of discovering something new and different, is the Achilles heels of any sequel. And it is a rare sequel indeed that manages to keep this spirit of newness alive while advancing the storyline in ways that honour the original Continue Reading
Dive in! Go swimming with Rick and Morty in Drake mash up video
Rick and Morty own the zeitgeist. OK maybe not all of it but what with creative direction from Mr Community himself Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, an imaginative pallette that knows no bounds, Earthly or otherwise, and insanely quotable quotes and memorable visuals, they at least a fairly significant Continue Reading
Wayward Pines: “Enemy Lines” (S2, E1 review)
Good old humanity. Even when they’re handed a nice bright and shiny chance to save themselves, they manage to soil it, scuff it and break in two, all the while holding a knife to their own throats. The good citizens of Wayward Pines, trapped in a future oasis of Continue Reading
The curse of the blank page: Even movie characters get writer’s block
Writer’s block is the worst. I can say that from bitter experience; many is the time that my muse, whoever or whatever it is, has deserted me and I have been left staring in growing frustration, and near panic – we writers are nothing if not melodramatic at times Continue Reading