Humanity has long been fascinated, and with good reason if current climate change trends are any indication (and they certainly appear to be), about what might happen when we have finally sucked the last tantalising vestiges of lifeforce from our beautiful blue planet. While saving the planet before it Continue Reading
Movies
Poster me this! Rogue One: A Star Wars Story character posters
SNAPSHOT A rogue band of resistance fighters unite to steal the Death Star plans and bring new hope to the galaxy. “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” takes place before the events of “Star Wars: A New Hope” and will be a departure from the saga films but have Continue Reading
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s cinematic trailer brings the struggle with the Dark Side vividly alive
Since 2011 when EA’s Stars Wars: The Old Republic was released, players in this Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) game, and according to MAXIM, it is massive indeed, have been able to imagine themselves in the roles of Jedi Knight, Sith Lord, Bounty and Smuggler with the added bonus of being Continue Reading
Well hello Star-Lord! Guardians of the Galaxy 2 has a teaser trailer and the universe rejoices
SNAPSHOT Set to the backdrop of Awesome Mixtape #2, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 continues the team’s adventures as they traverse the outer reaches of the cosmos. The Guardians must fight to keep their newfound family together as they unravel the mysteries of Peter Quill’s true parentage. Continue Reading
Movie review: The Girl on the Train
It’s early on in Tate Taylor’s The Girl on the Train, based on the bestselling book of the same name by Paula Hawkins, that you realise how supremely broken Rachel Watson (Emily Blunt) has been left by recent events in her life. Riding to and from New York each Continue Reading
Little Sister: Coming home is never easy
SNAPSHOT It’s October, 2008. Young nun Colleen (Addison Timlin) is avoiding all contact from her family, until an email from her mother announces, “Your brother is home.” On returning to her childhood home in Asheville, NC, she finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and Continue Reading
Movie review: The Fundamentals of Caring
There is a thread of storytelling that runs through many a tale that posits that all you need to rediscover the many and myriad joys of being alive is to have just the right person come into your life and shake things up just so at, naturally enough, just Continue Reading
She’s still got it! (Of course) Angela Landsbury sings Beauty and the Beast theme #fansbury
Around about the time that the world marked The International Angela Lansbury Appreciation Day, a delightful video emerged of the multi-talented and endlessly effervescent Angela Lansbury performing the theme from Beauty and the Beast as its 25th anniversary screening. This gala event, whch also featured the actors who played Continue Reading
Going ape s**t! An astronaut has a really Bad Day on Planet of the Apes
If you’re an ape or a monkey then life in a Planet of the Apes future is pretty sweet. Once mighty Homo Sapiens are now your primitive lapdogs and the Earth, ruined New York city and all, is yours, all yours. But then an astronaut or two crash into Continue Reading
“Life is a journey to be experienced” … Happy 90th birthday Winnie the Pooh!
It may hard to believe but Winnie the Pooh, A. A. Milne’s beloved creation who, along with other characters based on his son Christopher’s stuffed animals, resides in the quintessentially-English Hundred Acre Woods, is 90 today. Yes, 90 years old! Time flies when you’re eating a great many smackerels of Continue Reading