SPOILERS AHEAD … AND FRIENDS AND ENEMIES AND FRENEMIES, AND OF COURSE, ZOMBIES … AMC, it turns out, isn’t all that well practised at heeding proverbs. Fair enough in one sense – what was in vogue a couple of millennia ago, so much so that the Bible decided a Continue Reading
Melissa McCarthy asks – Can You Ever Forgive Me?
SNAPSHOT Melissa McCarthy stars in the adaptation of the memoir Can You Ever Forgive Me?, the true story of best-selling celebrity biographer (and friend to cats) Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) who made her living in the 1970’s and 80’s profiling the likes of Katharine Hepburn, Tallulah Bankhead, Estee Lauder Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2018: Week 5 – Moldova, Montengero, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia
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
Serving up a Pixar appetiser: Delightful Bao to precede Incredibles 2
SNAPSHOT The seven-and-a-half-minute short is a culinary fable about a Chinese-Canadian woman suffering from the depression of an empty nest, who gets a second shot at motherhood when one of her handmade dumplings comes alive. (via EW) Pixar has oft proven itself in the past as not simply the Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The watercolour wonder of Alina Chau
There is an exceptional beauty and gentleness to the extravagantly beautiful work of Alina Chau, an animator with many years experience in the industry who has worked on the likes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Beautiful and gentle it maybe, embodying the loveliest aspects of watercolour work, but Continue Reading
Countdown to new Lost in Space: First 3 eps original 1960s series (review)
Nostalgia is a pretty unreliable lens to look at anything through, prone to rose-coloured distortions, warm-and-fuzzy childhood memories, and a willingness to forgive all kinds of deficiencies in the service of venerating something you love. All of which complicates reviewing a series that came out in the year I Continue Reading
To infinity and beyond! Go behind the scenes with Toy Story’s voice actors
Often times, pulling back the curtain and seeing what lies behind the glittering facade, the alluring mystique can be a disappointment. But sometimes, and this is most definitely the case with this delightful behind-the-scenes video courtesy of ScreenSlam, taking a peek at the building blocks of a beloved pop Continue Reading
Movie review: Isle of Dogs
There is a beautifully immersive, almost fairytale whimsy that accompanies every film that idiosyncratic auteur Wes Anderson brings to the screen. You know walking into a film like Isle of Dogs, his second stop-motion animation feature film after the Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), that you will encounter a world Continue Reading
Looking right down the barrel: Colony S3 trailer previews toughest season yet
SNAPSHOT The new season begins six months after the Bowmans’ escape from the Los Angeles bloc as Will (Holloway) and Katie (Callies) struggle to rebuild their family in the world beyond the walls. When their peaceful existence is shattered, they are sent on an odyssey that will finally reveal Continue Reading
Book review: The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale
Who hasn’t, at one time or another, wished for a little more magic in their lives? In Robert Dinsdale’s The Toymakers, there is fantastically magical realism in abundance but you end up questioning much of the time, even in a book as beautiful as this often but not always Continue Reading