Falling in love is one thing; falling in love with the right person is quite another. Or so Un Profil Pour Deux aka Mr Stein Goes Online – there’s quite the creative titular translation leap going on there – would have us believe in this light farce, scripted and Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The truthful fun of Honest Movie Posters
Why should movie trailers get all the “Honest …” fun? College Humor are justly famous for their irreverent, tell-it-like-it-is trailer parodies which call out films, much-loved and otherwise, for weird narrative inconsistencies, odd character decisions and a plethora of other WTF moments. Good news is that the movie trailers’ Continue Reading
Book review: The Summer of Impossible Things by Rowan Coleman
Life isn’t very good with second chances. We wish it was, and many is the time we reflect back on an incident, big or small, innocuous or catastrophic and wish we could have said something different, done something unexpected, or frankly, not gone through the whole thing. But life Continue Reading
All out of love for Deadpool 2? Like that is even possible (trailer)
SNAPSHOT After surviving a near fatal bovine attack, a disfigured cafeteria chef (Wade Wilson) struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Mayberry’s hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his lost sense of taste. Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux capacitor, Wade Continue Reading
Movie review: Pacific Rim Uprising
You could hear the cries of lament from space. Guillermo del Toro has chosen not to helm the sequel to his intelligent, bombastically brilliant 2013 film Pacific Rim, a critical and commercial hit that saw the Earth attacked by fearsome giant monsters known as Kaiju from the dimensional beyond Continue Reading
Now this is music #105: Loma, Django Django, Jesse Saint John, Becky & The Birds, Bonsai Mammal
Do not be one of the great banal unwashed. That should be the creed for every last one of us, but as we know all too well from the swelling ranks of conservative, unthinking herds around us, not everyone wants to push that envelope, avant that garde and sit Continue Reading
A proclivity for greatness … or not? Find out what you’re made of with Prospect
SNAPSHOT A teenage girl and her father travel to a remote alien moon, aiming to strike it rich. They’ve secured a contract to harvest a large deposit of the elusive gems hidden in the depths of the moon’s toxic forest. But there are others roving the wilderness and the Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2018: Week 1 – Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
Torn apart by teeth or bullets: Lose yourself in Fear the Walking Dead season 4
SNAPSHOT In Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 we will see the world of Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) and her family through new eyes — the eyes of Morgan Jones (Lennie James), joining the story from the world of The Walking Dead. The characters’ immediate past mixes with an Continue Reading
Cinema sounds: My three current favourite soundtracks (Black Panther, Call Me By Your Name, The Shape of Water)
Soundtracks are knitted into the soul of every movie you see. Often well done, sometimes not, but where they work, and work superbly, they add immeasurable depth, breadth and spine-tingling, soul-stirring emotion to a film, augmenting stellar performances by the cast. elevating key plot points and ensuring that, Continue Reading