SPOILERS AHEAD … AND HOPE AND DOOM BUT NOT IN EQUAL MEASURE The zombies may be thick on the ground in their very own apocalypse but not so much hope or any sense of optimism for the future. Most survivors, including the new villain of the piece Martha (Tonya Continue Reading
Fork me! Is life on earth The Good Place after all? We find out in season 3
The Good Place is hands down one of the most clever, funny and innately human sitcoms to come down the pike in quite some time. In two brilliantly-imaginative seasons it has managed to ask some pretty intense questions about the nature of good and evil, life and death, fate Continue Reading
Movie review: Juliet, Naked
The world, it can be safely said, is roughly divided into those people who take a flying leap off a metaphorical cliff, hoping for the best as they sail through the air, and those who tiptoe trepidatiously to the edge, peer over, say “Nope!” and edge away, never to Continue Reading
A Quiet Place — Telling a Story with Sound (video essay by Michael Tucker)
Snapshot Sound always plays a particularly important role in the horror genre, but A Quiet Place takes this a step further, making sound itself a key element of the story. For this video I had the opportunity to talk to the sound designers of the film, Erik Aadahl and Continue Reading
Die Hard compared: What are the differences between the film and the book?
Did you know that Christmas classic Die Hard – yes this is a hill I am prepared to cinematically die on thank you very much; for it is festive in ways that transcend eggnog and tinsel – was based on the book Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp? Perhaps you Continue Reading
Comics review: The Weatherman (issues 1-3)
As cases of mistaken identity go, The Weatherman is a glorious technicolour-fabulous doozy. Well, mistaken in the mind of the weatherman himself, Nathan Bright, outrageously fun, good-naturedly lovable bad boy of Martian news some 750 years in the future where Mars and Venus are heavily-populated outposts of the human Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The surreal delights of Melt Down’s body-less boy
SNAPSHOT Melt Down was my senior year film at Pratt Institute. It’s a surrealist narrative story about a body-less boy who doesn’t want to go outside, among other wacky characters in a world where people melt from stress. (synopsis via Vimeo) There is no denying that life can be Continue Reading
Movie review: Hearts Beat Loud
Life throws a myriad of challenging-to-navigate moments our way on a regular basis – you could well argue it’s the overweening predilection of a universe seemingly at odds with the idea of an easy passage to anything – but perhaps one of the greatest obstacles is that faced by Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The imaginative wonder of Matt Gaser’s sci-fi worlds
Advanced though our current digital age may be, and replete with all kinds of wonderful benefits denied to people past (benefits I love and use frequently), you can’t help feeling that we’ve also lost something in this rush to progress – a sense of magic and wonder, that feeling Continue Reading
Book review: The Biggerers by Amy Lilwall
If there’s one thing humanity has fund itself particularly adept at, and this is not a cause for blue ribbons or backslapping with gusto, it is placing itself on a gleaming pedestal and fancying itself as some sort of nature-ordering deity. You can trace that god-like fascination to religions Continue Reading