SNAPSHOT For one bustling Manhattan apartment building, the real day starts after the folks on two legs leave for work and school. That’s when the pets of every stripe, fur and feather begin their own nine-to-five routine: hanging out with each other, trading humiliating stories about their owners, or Continue Reading
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Road to Eurovision 2016: Week 2 – Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Iceland
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
Awww cute. Jurassic Park re-imagined as a warm and cuddly nature documentary
Jurassic Park is such a sweet, sweet movie. We see all those wonderful dinosaurs in their natural settings, admittedly 65 million years plus out of time but still, discovering the world and living in perfect harmony. Sigh … Wait, no, I may be thinking of the wrong movie. What Continue Reading
Movie review: Marguerite
Loosely inspired by the life of American socialite Florence Foster Jenkins (of whom there is an impending film mere weeks from cinematic release), Marguerite, directed by Xavier Giannoli is a poignant tale of one woman’s search for meaning in a life deceptively bereft of it. To all intents and Continue Reading
Can zombies swim? The cast of Fear the Walking Dead explain how
VIDEO SNAPSHOT What happened in season 1 and where did we leave our frazzled bunch of survivors? Check out this recap video courtesy of AMC and find out … So no doubt there is one thought that keeps you up at night, as it does me – Continue Reading
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story asks the question – What will you become? (teaser trailer)
SNAPSHOT Set between the events of Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, the plot of the movie revolves around a band of resistance fighters unite for a daring mission to steal the Death Star plans, and a very impressive cast has been assembled made up of names Continue Reading
Connecting in the dark: Can true love find itself again in 3rd Street Blackout?
SNAPSHOT Negin Farsad and Jeremy Redleaf’s 3rd Street Blackout puts a savvy twist on the old “New York City as a character” trope, instead subbing in a Hurricane Sandy-felled New York City for the shiny, happy place most often seen in the rom-com world. The feature – which the Continue Reading
Book review: Find Me by Laura van den Berg
Identity cuts to the very core of what it means to be human. Without it, we are faceless, stateless, bereft of connections and a sense of belonging, the very connections to people, places and memories that make us who we are gone. Find Me by Laura van den Berg Continue Reading
The Walking Dead – “Last Day on Earth” (S6, E16 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … ALONG WITH HUBRIS AND ITS INEVITABLE TWIN HUMILITY … AND MORE ROADBLOCKS THAN PEAK HOUR HAS CARS* It’s good to know that some things never change; even in the zombie apocalypse. For instance, the idea that pride most often comes before a fall, nowhere on Continue Reading
Anything Can Be a Musical: Stephen Colbert and Rachel Bloom prove it in song
When I was a kid, I really didn’t get musicals. Not at all. While they were bright, fun and sing-a-long-ish to a ridiculous degree, full to bursting with love sweet love, prevailing justice and everything working out right – I’m talking the golden age of Hollywood musicals here, not Continue Reading