Regardless of whether you’re a music obsessive like I am, or a casual radio listener or streamer who has music playing in the background, there’s a way better than average chance that you’ve heard Meghan Trainor’s catchiest-as-all-hell breakout hit “All About That Bass”. The debut single by the Massachusetts-raised Continue Reading
Movies
Behold the epic final trailer for The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies
SNAPSHOT From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, the third in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies brings to an epic conclusion the adventures of Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Olaf from Frozen delightfully re-imagined as Disney Princesses
There’s no doubt about it – Frozen is a big deal. It’s set all kinds of box office records, won a slew of awards and its songs have become so ubiquitous that its hard to believe they weren’t even on anyone’s musical radar a year ago. In the process, Continue Reading
Movie review: Interstellar
Much like an endangered animal or plant, of which sightings are confirmed but few and far between, coming across a much-hyped tentpole movie which possesses a compulsively-watchable story, exquisitely-well drawn characters, an epic sense of time and place (in this case, literally), richly expressed both visually and thematically, and a solid sense of intelligently-articulated, emotionally-resonant Continue Reading
The end and the beginning of all things with The Last Scout
SNAPSHOT In 2065, a devastating nuclear war between America and China renders planet Earth uninhabitable. Those with access to commercial and private spacecraft escape the planet and the two sides each decide to search for a new home. Seven years into their journey, the crew of The Pegasus and Continue Reading
Chris Evans is totally Playing It Cool
“Love isn’t a thinking thing, it’s a feeling thing … and this is what it felt like for me.” SNAPSHOT In Playing It Cool, formerly A Many Splintered Thing, Chris Evans plays a screenwriter anxious to write an action movie who is told by his agent (Anthony Mackie) that he Continue Reading
Matrix re-imagined: “It’s an 8 bit world, Mr Anderson”
Sequels aside – waaaaay inside if you please, like somewhere around Alpha Centauri will do if anyone is heading that way – The Matrix trilogy is the Wachowskis gift to the world primarily because the first film, which began our most excellent adventures with Neo, is indisputably one of Continue Reading
The Most Surprised I’ve Ever Been: Marcel the Shell’s small but happy world
I cannot believe it took me this long to discover the anthropomorphic delights of Marcel the Shell With Shoes On. Created by writer/director Dean Fleischer-Camp and writer/actress Jenny Slate, this web-based series of shorts, and an accompanying line of gorgeous picture books (Things About Me, The Most Surprised I’ve Ever Continue Reading
Movie review: Hector and the Search for Happiness
On a quick film-by-film comparison, the Peter Chelsom-dircted Hector and the Search For Happiness, based on the book of the same name by by François Lelord, would seem to share quite a bit of storytelling DNA with that other recent quest for meaning in a moribund life, The Secret Life of Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: Comet (trailer + reviews)
SNAPSHOT Dell (Long) and Kimberly (Rossum) meet at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. They’re each there to watch a meteor shower, Fate, and Dell’s big mouth, help strike up a relationship. That’s one of five different stories Esmail jumps between, almost at random, throughout the course of Continue Reading