If you have ever fallen in love, you will be all too aware of how all-consumingly wonderful it can be, how it overwhelms you in the best possible way, reshaping your reality so profoundly that it becomes well-nigh impossible to remember a time when the object of your fierce Continue Reading
Go way back prehistorically when with Aardman’s Early Man
SNAPSHOT Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of how plucky caveman Dug, along with sidekick Hognob unites his tribe against the mighty Bronze Age in a battle to beat them at their own game. It Continue Reading
Colony: “Tamam Shud” / “The Garden of Beasts” (S2, E9 & E10 review)
SPOILERS, DRONES AND VINTAGE PLANES, OH MY AHEAD It’s time to dig out all your analogue antiques everyone! While you may love your smartphone, adore your tablet computer and feel joined at the hip to your Netflix subscription, the truth of the matter is that, come the alien apocalypse, all Continue Reading
Can’t an evil Sith Lord get interviewed in peace anymore? (Parody video)
In this fantastically-fast, interconnected digital world of ours, it doesn’t take long for anyone to see the latest viral video sensation nor for people to begin parodying the hilarious hell out of it, mostly to great effect. Such was the case when a video of Professor Robert Kelly being Continue Reading
Movie review: Kong Skull Island
By and large, big, dumb fun monster blockbusters are not exactly known for pushing the envelope. Beholden by their very nature to an A to B narrative – they are, if nothing else, escape from danger movies on an epic scale – with little to no wiggle room, they Continue Reading
Life after un-death is harder than you think: The Burning World book trailer
SNAPSHOT R is recovering from death. He’s learning how to read, how to speak, maybe even how to love. He can almost imagine a future with Julie, this girl who restarted his heart – building a new world from the ashes of the old one. And then helicopters appear Continue Reading
Coco: We are all a part of those who came before (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel (voice of newcomer Anthony Gonzalez) dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz (voice of Benjamin Bratt). Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead Continue Reading
Movie review: Logan
Watching a Marvel film, with a few notable exceptions such as the playfully off the leash Guardians of the Galaxy, and the mischievously R-rated Deadpool, often feels like being trapped in some sort of real life Groundhog Day. Well made though many of the films are, they tend to feature Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Say Yes” & “Bury Me Here” (S7, E12 & E13 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND FUN FAIR ZOMBIES AND BACKPACKS, OMINOUS DEATHLY BACKPACKS* Given that I’ve already made liberal use of the Dickensian idea of a tale of a two episodes, it seems only fair that I not repeat myself by riffing on the same thing, though goodness knows The Continue Reading
Dance your way from A to Z with Disco Grover!
SNAPSHOT Step aside and let the King show you how it’s done. Grover is the King of ABC Disco and he is going to boogie oogie oogie through all twenty-six letter of the alphabet. Watch him get down! I have long been a fan of the absolutely impressive, endlessly Continue Reading