Mr Sim (“like the card”), the titular protagonist of The Very Private Life of Mister Sim (La Vie très privée de Monsieur Sim), is a talkative man. It doesn’t matter who you are – a disinterested businessman in premium economy on a flight, a stranger in a roadside diner, a woman recording Continue Reading
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And that’s a (sudden) wrap! What if movies ended when a character uttered the title?
Chris Huebs has found a perfect, and highly-amusing way to cut down on the time it takes to watch a movie. He’s put together a supercut of movies where the characters utter the title of the film – a more common occurrence than you might realise – and ended the movies Continue Reading
Now this is music #64: DAWN, Phebe Starr, Sarah Borges, St. Lucia, Sunflower Bean
Can you dance and think and feel all at the same time? Hell yeah you can! These five immensely-talented artists from across the globe emphatically prove that you can pour your heart and soul into astonishingly catchy, amazing tracks that please the ears and instruct the soul. It’s a Continue Reading
Wait, where did we leave her? Oh yeah … Finding Dory finds a trailer
SNAPSHOT Disney•Pixar’s Finding Dory reunites everyone’s favorite forgetful blue tang, Dory, with her friends Nemo and Marlin on a search for answers about her past. What can she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak Whale? Directed by Andrew Stanton and produced by Lindsey Continue Reading
The Walking Dead – “Knots Untie” (S6, E11 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND COWARDLY MEN WITH KNIVES … AND COWS* It was a case of worlds getting a whole lot bigger in “Knots Untie”. While on the surface a warm and fuzzy wonderful thing to have happen to anyone, in an apocalyptic world where brute survival rules and Continue Reading
Be together. Never the Same: The inspiring message of Android’s new ad
In general, I am not a fan of ads. Even if they are artistic triumphs, and the great ones often are, I’m not especially enamoured of giving air to brands that simply want to sell more product. The exceptions are the Christmas ads from various stores – c’mon it’s Continue Reading
CDs vs. LPs: 1985 news reports takes us back to the technological future
It’s always fascinating to look back at the way items we take for granted today such as the compact disc were viewed when they first came on the market. Like any new invention, there are detractors and advocates but in the case of this Detroit TV news report from Continue Reading
Singing and cracking jokes on Mars? When The Martian is a musical comedy, you bet you can
You have to admit, for sheer comedy value alone, that nothing beats watching someone, say Matt Damon as astronaut Mark Watney, being left alone on an inhospitable planet – guess which one? – and having to battle for survival against terrifyingly destructive odds to make it back home. I Continue Reading
The steampunk wonder of April and Her Extraordinary World (Avril and le monde, truque)
SNAPSHOT The plot of the film is the kind of slightly revisionist history that makes the mind tingle with delight. In this world, based on the world of graphic novelist Jacques Tardi, everything changed when Napoleon Bonaparte was killed before he became a famous world leader. His demise started Continue Reading
Benny Hill meets The Walking Dead? Yes really … and it’s great fun
There’s a better than even chance that the first thing you think of when someone, say like me, says The Walking Dead, is not The Benny Hill Show. And fair enough too – one show is all about trying to avoid either becoming undead chow or grist for sociopathic Continue Reading