You have to admire any author who plunges into the well-travelled waters of genre literature, particularly when it concerns mutants, often held aloft as humanity’s possible evolutionary future and the subject of many a graphic novel or film series. But Australian author Lynette Noni, who is best known for Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Spell of the West – birds, a cowgirl and the mysterious Ax-Man
Who is the mysterious Ax-Man and what is doing that’s traumatising the non-opposable thumb possessing and capacity for abstract thought-lacking birds that inhabit the cowgirl’s isolated cacti farm? Hint it’s not good and what starts out as three hysterical birds frantically trying to call attention to a serious, ever-growing Continue Reading
Colony: “Disposable Heroes” (S3, E11 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SUBTERFUGE, DOUBLE-DEALING AND UNDERHANDED EVERYTHING! If the alien apocalypse wasn’t such a serious business, and we’re talking “serious” with a capital “S” and some highly luminous but grim neon, you could well argue that everyone is having a hood of a time trying to outfox Continue Reading
There’s a new Doctor Who in town … and she looks amazing! (Season 11 poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT The series will introduce Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, the most recent incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in her TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box on the outside. The series will also introduce Bradley Walsh, Continue Reading
Book review: I’ll Have What She’s Having by Erin Carlson
Romantic comedies are one of those cinematic genres that the cool people of the world love to rain hate and scorn down upon. Possessed, you must assume, of love lives so magnificently perfect and satisfying that Cupid himself looks on with rose-ripped envy, they look disdainfully at films which Continue Reading
Ready to be Insecure all over again? Sure you are … (trailers)
SNAPSHOT Creator Issa Rae (The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl) stars as Issa Dee, who struggles to navigate the tricky professional and personal terrain of Los Angeles along with her best friend Molly (Yvonne Orji). (synopsis via HBO) Good god I love Issa Rae. Specifically, her role in HBO’s Continue Reading
Christmas in July #3: Watched The Flying Nun’s “Wailing in a Winter Wonderland”
One of the great delights of The Flying Nun (1967-1970) was, and shall always be, how wonderfully sweet Sister Bertille (played by Gidget herself, the incomparable Sally Field) is in just about every scene. I know that kind of naively-enthusiastic caring character is not really in vogue anymore; people like Continue Reading
Apocalyptic Christmas? In Extinction, Michael Peña has visions of alien invasion dancing in his head
SNAPSHOT A working class father of the future faces recurring dreams of destruction by an unknown force. When his unwanted nightmares begin to affect his relationship with his family, he soon realizes they may be the key to a horrible reality, as a relentless alien attack begins to destroy Continue Reading
Now this is music francaise: Cléa Vincent, Fishbach, Juliette Armanet, Burning Peacocks, Charlotte Gainsbourg #BastilleDay
Happy French National Day everyone! Known more commonly in English-speaking countries as Bastille Day, it is a celebration that has long had a form place in my heart. A student of French for the entire six years of high school, weekday occurrences of Bastille Day were spent watching French Continue Reading
Forget the Good Place or the bad place! What about The Infinite Place?
Iron Man isn’t afraid of ANYTHING. How do we know this? Well, according to the latest brilliantly-clever, very funny animated video from the talented Leigh Lahav, not even death ruffles his cooler-than-cool feathers. Appearing before Michael from NBC’s sitcom-of-the-moment The Good Place, Iron Man is not the least bit Continue Reading