SNAPSHOT Minority Report follows the unlikely partnership between a man haunted by the future and a cop haunted by her past, as they race to stop the worst crimes of the year 2065 before they happen. Set in Washington, D.C., it is 10 years after the demise of Precrime, Continue Reading
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I am an extrovert gay man living in Sydney who loves Indian food, current affairs, music, film and reading, caramel anything, and a beautiful guy called Steve who makes every day a delight. I am trying to get two novels in a trilogy ready for e-publication, love my iPhone & iPod, and am secretly Canadian in my soul. Life is fun, exciting and joyful and I aim to make the absolute most of it!
The road to Eurovision 2015: Semi-final 2 (part 2) – Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland
It’s Eurovision Song Contest time again folks! Let loose the glitter bombs of fabulous music now! So, in the seven weeks leading up to the grand final on Saturday 23 May 2015, I will be profiling the acts and reviewing the songs of 5-6 countries each week, giving my Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: One film. Two images. Three amazing posters (and then some)
It takes a huge amount of skill to describe a movie in just two instantly recognisable frames but talented Swedish artist and graphic designer Viktor Hertz has managed it with his series of pictograms, an art form with which he has a particular affinity. Created by the graphic designer Continue Reading
Is that smoke in the forest? The Walking Dead’s Daryl investigates in this LEGO stop motion animated short
I am increasingly of the opinion that every single TV show, movie, book trailer and music clip – hey I am not playing favourites here – should be required by law to produce a LEGO version of itself. Yes, every single last one of them. “Is that not already Continue Reading
Movie review: Ex Machina
It’s often ben said that humanity is its own worst enemy, given that our collective shortcomings and flaws often coming close to outweighing our propensity for innovation, advancement and renewal. It’s a thesis explored with gusto, tension and an artistic film noir aesthetic in Alex Garland’s (28 Days Later, Never Let Me Continue Reading
Outlander: The Search (S1, E14 review)
*SPOILERS … AND REDCOATS AND A DISTINCT LACK OF TWITTER OR TEXTING AHEAD* It’s been clear ever since Claire Randall Fraser (Catriona Balfe) stumbled through the stones at Craigh an Dun back in episode one of the television adaptation of Diana Gabaldon’s sprawling historical novels Outlander, that the show was more Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Seth Boyden’s delightful animated film An Object at Rest
Time takes its toll on us all. Body parts sag, all those things we thought we’d get done don’t get done, or at least not in the way we envisaged, and we find ourselves tumbled along by life to places we never ever thought we’d be. It’d not necessarily Continue Reading
The road to Eurovision 2015: Semi-final 2 (part 1) – Azerbaijan, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta
It’s Eurovision Song Contest time again folks! Let loose the glitter bombs of fabulous music now! So, in the seven weeks leading up to the grand final on Saturday 23 May 2015, I will be profiling the acts and reviewing the songs of 5-6 countries each week, giving my unvarnished, unguarded and Continue Reading
Just like me, they (don’t) long to be me, close to you: The trippy togetherness of Sense8 (trailer)
SNAPSHOT One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other’s lives, each other’s secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as “Sensates.” (official synopsis via Blastr) There’s no escaping we now Continue Reading
Can you bear The Strain a second time? (Season 2 trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT A plane lands at John F. Kennedy International Airport with the lights off and the doors sealed. CDC epidemiologist Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll), Dr. Nora Martinez, and their team are sent to investigate. On board they find 206 corpses (with no mark of blood loss) and four Continue Reading