SNAPSHOT From Disney comes two-time Oscar winner Brad Bird’s riveting, mystery adventure Tomorrowland, starring Academy Award winner George Clooney. Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank (Clooney), jaded by disillusionment, and Casey (Britt Robertson), a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to Continue Reading
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Book review: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
For a place and time that humanity is yet to reach, the future dystopian era certainly bears all the hallmarks of a road well travelled. In fact, so well depicted have been its tropes of ruin and decay, its harbingers of humanity’s demise and whirlwind-reaping that you could be Continue Reading
Brain-filled pasta anyone? iZombie debuts a freshly undead trailer
SNAPSHOT Rose McIver stars as Olivia “Liv” Moore, a rosy-cheeked, disciplined, over-achieving medical resident who had her life path completely mapped out… until the night she attended a party that unexpectedly turned into a zombie feeding frenzy. As one of the newly undead, Liv has devised a way to Continue Reading
There’s no need to be afraid of Myrna the Monster (short film)
Love isn’t easy … for anyone really. Imagine though how much harder it must be when you’re a young kidnapped alien from the moon, all alone on earth with no one for company, your only activities playing the recorder in the trash, holding up ad signs for fried chicken shops Continue Reading
The Many Epiphanies Of Jessica Fletcher: A Murder She Wrote compilation
When I was but a wee lad – OK slightly older than a wee lad but hardly the veteran TV watcher of today – in the mid-1980s, I was absolutely devoted to Murder She Wrote, a show than on CBS from 1984 to 1996 (followed by four movies released Continue Reading
Go back in time with 8-bit Guardians of the Galaxy
Star Lord and the gang of Guardians of the Galaxy may zip around the galaxy in faster than light ships, outwitting powerful nemeses and rescuing everyone from certain and imminent death but they are at heart ’80s kids – well onetime Earthling Peter Quill aka Star Lord who clings Continue Reading
Movie review: Mortdecai #StGeorgeOpenAir
Mortdecai, Johnny Depp’s latest foray into playing an eccentrically-endearing man-child who comically says and does whatever pops into his head, aims high. Under the studied direction of David Koepp who understands that less is more, Mortdecai, based on a series of quirky cult novels by Kyril Bonfiglioli, is clearly looking to Continue Reading
Comic books draw even more of the offbeat crazy fun out of Rick and Morty
One of the most, if not the most, absurdly irreverent, hilarious, offbeat, crazy, imaginative, deliriously-wacky, gloriously politically-incorrect (in a way that even Family Guy, hardly a bastion of traditional family values, might blanch at) discoveries of last year was Rick Harmon and Justin Roiland’s Adult Swim animated series Rick Continue Reading
There’s Four of them AND they’re Fantastic. AGAIN.
SNAPSHOT Fantastic Four, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must learn to harness their daunting new abilities and Continue Reading
Book review: Sand by Hugh Howey
Humanity seems to be forever caught in a tension between who we were, who we are now and who we would like to be. Not everyone is affected by this of course, with a sizeable number of our fellow human beings either unaware of it, or if they do notice its grating presence, Continue Reading