SNAPSHOT When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl. (official synopsis via Netflix) If there is one thing that Steven Spielberg has taught us through his vast catalogue of otherworldly though grounded in heartfelt humanity Continue Reading
They’re alive, dammit! The giddy forward momentum of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
It can be hard to do optimistic well. It doesn’t matter if it’s a book, movie or TV series or even a song, too much sugary goodness in the characters (or the narrative) doesn’t so much help the medicine go down as turn people off the unendingly upbeat character. It’s not Continue Reading
Death Knows No Borders: Fear the Walking Dead returns 22 August (promo + poster)
So the zombie apocalypse huh? It starts off with everyone all united, working together to get out of the damned death-filled hellhole that L.A. has become, and everything’s fine – well as fine as the end of the world can be which let’s be honest is really not fine Continue Reading
Hand of the Queen: How we love thee Tyrion Lannister – let us count the video montage ways
Everyone has their favourite character in a TV show. It doesn’t matter how well-written or acted an ensemble show is, and Game of Thrones is one of the very best of the current crop, there’s always a character or maybe two that grips your imagination or stokes your imagination Continue Reading
Movie review: Sing Street
Love and music have long enjoyed a close and fruitful association with the former supplying the latter with everything from lyrical inspiration to the sort of luminous romanticism that has joined together countless musicians and their fans over millenia. This nexus is on full display in 1980s-set Sing Street, John Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Invisible’s poignant longing for connection
Love sweet adorable love. Well the idea of love sweet adorable love anyway. That’s the adorable premise behind this beautifully-realised short film from Michael Trikosko and Andrew Wilson which tells the story of an adorably shy young male lizard at a high school dance who desperately wants to dance Continue Reading
Wayward Pines: “Time Will Tell” (S2, E7 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE CORPSE OF ONE HUMAN BEING WHO DIDN’T LEARN AS FAST AS THE ABBIES* So let me riddle you this, dear Wayward Pines viewers? If you were wanting to find some way to head off the looming Abbie-ocalypse, in which the town will be overrun Continue Reading
Lazy Eye: “Do you have any idea how long I searched for you, Alex?” (trailer)
SNAPSHOT Tim Kirkman’s “Lazy Eye” follows Dean (Lucas Near-Verbrugghe), a graphic artist living in Los Angeles who receives an email from Alex (Aaron Costa Ganis), an old flame he hasn’t seen or heard from in 15 years. The two of them meet up at a vacation home in the Continue Reading
Movie review: A Holy Mess #ScandiFFAu
Ah the best laid plans of mice and gay men. What could be better than announcing to your respective families at a joint Christmas Eve dinner, which the first time either side has set eyes on the other, than you are expecting a child? Quite a bit as it Continue Reading
Finally watched: The Grinder
SNAPSHOT The series follows television actor Dean Sanderson, Jr. (Rob Lowe), who returns to his hometown of Boise, Idaho after his long-running television series, The Grinder, ends. Though Dean is not a lawyer, he believes that his experience playing one on television makes him qualified to practice law. He Continue Reading