SNAPSHOT Set at the dawn of time, when dinosaurs and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of how one plucky caveman unites his tribe against a mighty enemy and saves the day! (synopsis via Coming Soon) I am, and will always be, a fan of Continue Reading
First impressions: Britannia (episodes 1-7)
When first you lay eyes upon Britannia, it’s a little too easy to dismiss it as some kind of charmingly low-rent Game of Thrones, ancient Britain on a budget, populated by drugged-out festival goers purporting to be Druids, Romans wanting to take it all for themselves (and going tripping Continue Reading
Pop Culture Typography: Iconic logos and fonts get a fun musical re-imagining
Ever-more creative and colourful lyric videos have become quite the thing of late for many music artists. Whether as a stop-gap till a live-action clip is filmed or the final promotional product itself, the best lyric videos entrance, entertain and move perfectly in time with the song they’re accompanying. Continue Reading
The body may be cured but is the soul? The Cured asks some hard questions
SNAPSHOT What happens when the undead return to life? In a world ravaged for years by a virus that turns the infected into zombie-like cannibals, a cure is at last found and the wrenching process of reintegrating the survivors back into society begins. Among the formerly afflicted is Senan Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Lint Boy by Aileen Leijten
There is a quiet peace and an air of bucolic contentment that comes from knowing you belong to someone and belong somewhere that is your own. Contrast that sense of intimate belonging with the loss of it and the person that helped make it so and you have the Continue Reading
Anyone he wants to be: The amazing chameleon mastery of actor Doug Jones
SNAPSHOT … [Doug Jones] would go on to play lots of characters that rendered him virtually unrecognizable. With job offers flooding in, thanks to word-of-mouth he eventually got a reputation for being not only someone who had a gift for giving life to these strange creature like roles, but Continue Reading
You’re a curmudgeonly one Mr Grinch? (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT For their eighth fully animated feature, Illumination and Universal Pictures present The Grinch, based on Dr. Seuss’ beloved holiday classic. The Grinch tells the story of a cynical grump who goes on a mission to steal Christmas, only to have his heart changed by a young girl’s generous Continue Reading
Book review: The Feed by Nick Clark Windo
The Feed, Nick Clark Windo’s brilliantly-chilling debut novel, is predicated on a simply though wholly terrifying idea – what if all knowledge, every last skerrick of understanding and know-how, every warm-and-fuzzy memory and emotional connection suddenly ceased to exist? What then? What would we do? How would we survive? And Continue Reading
Life exists everywhere: The hilarious wildlife documentary parody Bin Chicken
SNAPSHOT Life survives in the harshest environments on planet Earth. Searing deserts, the frozen Arctic tundra. However there are more toxic places. Our cities and these have spawned an entirely new subspecies: The Australian bin chicken. Scientists have now confirmed what many Australians have believed for decades. once known Continue Reading
Now this is music #104: IZNiik, Raindear, Cashmere Cat, VÉRITÉ, Dana Buoy
I love anyone and anything that sits outside the usual boundaries of what people consider “normal”, which if you’re conservative is pretty much anything outside the beige and the banal. Rather than decrying people who push boundaries and are exceptionally, interestingly creative, we should celebrate them, hold them high, Continue Reading