SNAPSHOT “In Labor Day, Kate Winslet delivers an award-worthy performance as a depressed single mother, who along with her young teenage son Henry (Gattlin Griffith) have their lives changed forever when they offer a wounded man a ride. The man (played by Josh Brolin) turns out to be an Continue Reading
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Please take some time to watch Cobie Smulders teach Grover about being courteous. Thank you!
This could quite possibly be one of the cutest Sesame Street segments I have featured on this blog to date. I mean, when you team up Cobie Smulders from How I Met Your Mother with my favourite Sesame Street regular, Grover – I still have a Grover plush toy Continue Reading
Looking forward to HBO’s Looking
Is it the gay Girls or the gay Sex and the City? HBO’s new show Looking, about three gay friends in San Francisco appropriately enough looking for love, has been compared to both shows, and it’s fair to say it probably has a little bit of each of those Continue Reading
Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Laverne and Shirley reunite on Nickolodeon’s Sam and Cat
“1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Schlemiel! Schlimazel! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated! We’re going to do it!” With these distinctive and instantly memorable opening lines, the two Milwaukee brewery workers with big dreams of a better life, Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) would lock arms, give each Continue Reading
To the moon … and back with Lunar
SNAPSHOT Lunar is set in a strict robot-patrolled Los Angeles in 2057, and is centered on a man who is arrested after trying to steal bread for his family and is sent to the penal colony on the moon. He must then become the first man to escape from Continue Reading
Now this is music #18: Bombay Bicycle Club, Yeo, Glass Lux, Rainer, Diafrix
You would think that at the end of a very busy year – to be fair is there really such a thing as a quiet uneventful year ever? – that music releases would be slowly to a stately crawl, winding down to the enjoyable lethargy of the southern hemisphere Continue Reading
Hello to you, moose and squirrel: Dreamworks animation readies a new Rocky and Bullwinkle short
One of the things I remember most fondly about my childhood are the annual holidays my family and I used to take at my grandparents place in Noraville, NSW, 800km away from where my family lived near Byron Bay and a world away from the limited choices of a Continue Reading
So much sci fi: The Extinction Parade + Sense8 + Firefly … oh my!
I am huge fan of sci-fi, something which is likely immediately obvious when you see the sorts of shows that regularly pop up on this blog. There is something about this most imaginative of genres, which by its very nature pushes the boundaries of what is possible often just Continue Reading
Movie review: Thor The Dark World
Thor: The Dark World, Marvel’s latest entry in its ever-expanding movie franchise universe, is a film that shouldn’t work as well nor be as much fun as it eventually is. Directed by Alan Taylor (Mad Men, Games of Thrones), who takes over from the more Shakespearian-inclined Kenneth Branagh who Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Indifference” (S4, E4 review)
*UNDEAD SPOILERS AHEAD* DING! DING! DING! Welcome ladies and gentleman’s to this week’s The Walking Dead Battle o’ the Wills! In the white corner, we have Farmer/Fighter/father Rick (Andrew Lincoln), 5′ 10″ and 170 lbs of simmering contemplation and halting conversation. And in the red corner, awash in blood Continue Reading