No matter how you slice it, and frankly if you possessed Thanos’s gauntlet, which looks like a blinged-out Swiss Army knife on steroids, you could slice it any way you damn well please, physics be damned, Avengers Infinity Wars (AIW) is a monumentally epic film. With a cast of thousands – Continue Reading
Now this is music #106: Jesse St John, Kero Kero Bonito, bülow, MGMT, Sasha Sloan
Life is a daunting undertaking. No news there, of course, but often times we struggle, despite sensing a great many things, with articulating exactly what we’re feeling and thus, finding a way to confront it and deal with it, at least in part. That’s why artists like the five featured Continue Reading
What might have been … Ralph McQuarrie’s Star Wars art envisaged by The DAVE School #Maythe4thbewithyou
SNAPSHOT A long time ago in a galaxy far far away… we might have seen a version of Star Wars that featured a Han Solo with green skin and gills, Stormtroopers with lightsabers, and a female heroine named Luka Starkiller. Many of these anomalies can be seen in concept Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2018: Week 7 (the Big Six) – France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, UK
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
Star Wars: A New Hope *is* the bright fun musical you’ve been looking for
It’s not a moon! Never were true words spoken – well okay they have been but admitting that severely lessens the dramatic impact of that opening statement thank you – but what were the musical moments woven in around those kinds of admissions? What were Leia and Grand Moff Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Good Out Here” (S4, E3 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND STICK TUSSLES AND MESSY MEETINGS OF HEARTS AND MINDS Everyone is looking for something in “Good Out Here” – whether it’s good or bad, redemption or revenge, hope or barbaric cynicism, the search is on … and it’s on in earnest. The one who who is Continue Reading
Solo: A Star Wars Story and the supercut trailer that reveals everything we know so far
SNAPSHOT Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in ‘Solo: A Star Wars Story,’ an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo befriends his mighty Continue Reading
Star Wars: A New Hope ended in just 60 seconds? Totally could’ve happened
Don’t get wrong – I love Star Wars: A New Hope (or as it was known when I was kid and saw it in a one-screen cinema in Ballina, NSW, Australia, Star Wars). I could quite happily watch it again and again and again and have done just that Continue Reading
Like Brothers – Mark and Jay Duplass have a book … and a very funny book trailer
I don’t care who you are – getting a book published is a pretty damn big, ridiculously-exciting, thrilling and amazingly good thing to happen! Even if you’re the famed Duplass Brothers, who have given us films like Safety Not Guaranteed and Skeleton Twins, and TV shows like Togetherness and Continue Reading
Who are you Christopher Robin? Winnie the Pooh to the rescue! (film photos)
SNAPSHOT In the heartwarming live-action adventure Disney’s Christopher Robin, the young boy who loved embarking on adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood with a band of spirited and loveable stuff animals, has grown up and lost his way. Now it is up to his childhood friends to venture into Continue Reading