SNAPSHOT A dystopian sci-fi thriller from writer/director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, The Host), Anon centers on a detective (Owen) living in a world where privacy and anonymity have been completely eliminated. When he discovers a woman (Seyfried) who has no digital footprint, it leads him on the trail of a Continue Reading
Comics review: Wallace the Brave
Childhood is a magical, wonderful time. In the world of Wallace the Brave, drawn by Will Henry, the pen name of Jamestown, Rhode Island-based Will Wilson, it’s all that and more, a whimsical, fabulous place where you can muse on what it would be like to “heroically [ride] a Continue Reading
#Eurovision book review: The Shelf Life of Happiness by David Machado #Portugal
What makes you happy? Kind of stumped for an answer? Don’t worry. it’s a question that leaves a lot of people flat-footed, including the first-person protagonist of David Machado’s illuminating novel The Shelf Life of Happiness which beautifully and blisteringly honestly examines what makes us happy. Or given this Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Pop culture characters get an animated makeover
As a creator, you must get used to your creations being out there, subject to proper copyright observance of course, for everyone to love, enjoy and interpret as their own. One group who makes particular use of this release into the pop culture wild of all kinds of movie Continue Reading
Movie review: Avengers Infinity War
No matter how you slice it, and frankly if you possessed Thanos’s gauntlet, which looks like a blinged-out Swiss Army knife on steroids, you could slice it any way you damn well please, physics be damned, Avengers Infinity Wars (AIW) is a monumentally epic film. With a cast of thousands – Continue Reading
Now this is music #106: Jesse St John, Kero Kero Bonito, bülow, MGMT, Sasha Sloan
Life is a daunting undertaking. No news there, of course, but often times we struggle, despite sensing a great many things, with articulating exactly what we’re feeling and thus, finding a way to confront it and deal with it, at least in part. That’s why artists like the five featured Continue Reading
What might have been … Ralph McQuarrie’s Star Wars art envisaged by The DAVE School #Maythe4thbewithyou
SNAPSHOT A long time ago in a galaxy far far away… we might have seen a version of Star Wars that featured a Han Solo with green skin and gills, Stormtroopers with lightsabers, and a female heroine named Luka Starkiller. Many of these anomalies can be seen in concept Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2018: Week 7 (the Big Six) – France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, UK
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
Star Wars: A New Hope *is* the bright fun musical you’ve been looking for
It’s not a moon! Never were true words spoken – well okay they have been but admitting that severely lessens the dramatic impact of that opening statement thank you – but what were the musical moments woven in around those kinds of admissions? What were Leia and Grand Moff Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Good Out Here” (S4, E3 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND STICK TUSSLES AND MESSY MEETINGS OF HEARTS AND MINDS Everyone is looking for something in “Good Out Here” – whether it’s good or bad, redemption or revenge, hope or barbaric cynicism, the search is on … and it’s on in earnest. The one who who is Continue Reading