SNAPSHOT Returning to the universe of TNT’s hit movie franchise, The Librarian, this new series centers on an ancient organization hidden beneath the Metropolitan Public Library dedicated to protecting an unknowing world from the secret, magical reality hidden all around. This group solves impossible mysteries, fights supernatural threats and Continue Reading
Book review: Reader on the 6:27 by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
Guylain Vignolles, blighted by a name that in French is uncomfortably close to a spoonerism, Vilain Guignol or Ugly Puppet, is a 36 year old man astride two worlds. By day he works at a book-pulping factory, overseen by “Fatso”, the corpulent supervisor of the plant, where is in charge of Continue Reading
Now this is music #76: KUOSA, Polographia, DENM, Petite Meller, Death Team
The theme this week is quirky and a little bit different. That’s not the same as not having something worthwhile to say which is often what quirky is unfortunately conflated with; rather these are serious songs from artists who have thrown something out of the ordinary into their musical Continue Reading
Watch this you must: Star Wars The Force Awakens VFX reel is AMAZING
One reason I watch every sci-fi film I can get my figurative hands on is the chance they give you to escape into a world/s wholly and utterly different to your own. To create those immersive worlds, films depend heavily on visual effects (VFX) which are advancing at such Continue Reading
Movie review: Other People
There is a cruel perversity to watching someone you love dearly die. It doesn’t matter if it is sudden, or as is the case with Other People, slow and faltering, you are witness to one person losing their battle to keep death at bay even as life, as it Continue Reading
Want supplies for the zombie apocalypse? Superstore can help you
SNAPSHOT America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) and Ben Feldman (Mad Men, A to Z) star on the hilarious workplace comedy Superstore about a unique family of employees at a supersized megastore. Superstore centers around Amy (Ferrera), the store’s most stalwart employee as well as the glue holding the place together, Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Pillar of Salt” (S2, E12 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … COOLERS FULL OF ICE AND FISH, REGRETS AND PARANOIA … NO SIGN OF THE PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE* Wholly in keeping with its apocalyptic mandate, Fear the Walking Dead got all badass, end-of-times Biblical this week with “Pillar of Salt”. Presumably a reference to Continue Reading
Great danger is looming: Moana and the eternal needs for heroes and demi-gods
SNAPSHOT Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped – and no one knows why. From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes Moana, a sweeping, CG-animated feature film about Continue Reading
How could you miss the zombie apocalypse AND Rick and Morty? Shaun of the Dead manages to hilariously do both
You’d think that zombies wandering the streets, all looking to devour your flesh in the most primal ways possible, would be a hard thing to miss. But Shaun (Simon Pegg), the eponymous protagonist of 2004’s horror comedy Shaun of the Dead, manages it, not just once but repeatedly. It Continue Reading
Happy International Angela Lansbury Appreciation Day everyone! #Fansbury
It goes without saying, but I will say it anyway, that Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury is one amazing lady. Born in 1925, her career has spanned an enviable number of decades, beginning in the early 1940s with a number of film roles such as Gaslight (1944) and The Picture Continue Reading