What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
Future and past collide: Are you ready to make The Crossing?
SNAPSHOT Jude Ellis (Steve Zahn) is the sheriff of Port Canaan, a small fishing town on the Oregon coast. Having relocated from Oakland to escape a strained marriage and a dark past as a big city cop, his goal is to build a quiet new life for himself and Continue Reading
Movie review: Annihilation
Much has been made of humanity’s “fight or flight” response to danger – the mechanism, borne of evolutionary necessity, that impels us to either take on an adversary in the hopes of besting them, or to run, as fast as we can, away from danger. It works marvellously in Continue Reading
Kiddo and the fraught adventure of finding your way in the world
SNAPSHOT Kiddo is an action adventure coming of age film about a young orphan girl named Kim (Antonia Tootill) and her “two unusual buddies’ journey to find inner resolution and their place in the world.” (Laughing Squid) It’s cold, damn cold! And then it most certainly is not. One Continue Reading
It’s incraftable! Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman host new show Making It
I am not an enthusiastic fan of baking/cooking/crafting/bedazzling reality TV shows. In fact, I’m not a fan at all. But, and this is a most crucial and highly-conditional but, if such a show were to be hosted by the god-like comedic talents of Amy Poehler and Nick Offerman, both Continue Reading
Movie review: Mr Stein Goes Online (Un Profil Pour Deux)
Falling in love is one thing; falling in love with the right person is quite another. Or so Un Profil Pour Deux aka Mr Stein Goes Online – there’s quite the creative titular translation leap going on there – would have us believe in this light farce, scripted and Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The truthful fun of Honest Movie Posters
Why should movie trailers get all the “Honest …” fun? College Humor are justly famous for their irreverent, tell-it-like-it-is trailer parodies which call out films, much-loved and otherwise, for weird narrative inconsistencies, odd character decisions and a plethora of other WTF moments. Good news is that the movie trailers’ Continue Reading
Book review: The Summer of Impossible Things by Rowan Coleman
Life isn’t very good with second chances. We wish it was, and many is the time we reflect back on an incident, big or small, innocuous or catastrophic and wish we could have said something different, done something unexpected, or frankly, not gone through the whole thing. But life Continue Reading
All out of love for Deadpool 2? Like that is even possible (trailer)
SNAPSHOT After surviving a near fatal bovine attack, a disfigured cafeteria chef (Wade Wilson) struggles to fulfill his dream of becoming Mayberry’s hottest bartender while also learning to cope with his lost sense of taste. Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux capacitor, Wade Continue Reading
Movie review: Pacific Rim Uprising
You could hear the cries of lament from space. Guillermo del Toro has chosen not to helm the sequel to his intelligent, bombastically brilliant 2013 film Pacific Rim, a critical and commercial hit that saw the Earth attacked by fearsome giant monsters known as Kaiju from the dimensional beyond Continue Reading