If you think it’s impossible to write a quirky, even madcap tale that involves a reluctant hitman, a disillusioned priest and sex hotel receptionist down on familial luck, then you have severely underestimated the talents of Swedish novelist Jonas Jonasson. The writer of internationally-successful novels The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Continue Reading
Captain Fantastic and the unyielding, heartwarming ties of family (trailer)
SNAPSHOT A father (Viggo Mortensen), devoted to teaching his six children how to live and survive in the deep forests of the Pacific Northwest, is forced to leave his self-created paradise. When confronted with the real world, he begins a journey that challenges his ideas of freedom and what Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2016: Week 6: Norway, Poland, Serbia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine
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
Happy Mother’s Day! My 3 favourite TV mums
Everyone, well almost everyone, loves their mums. And on Mothers Day we go out of our way to make sure mum feels special, spoiled and even more loved than normal. (You all know this whole mother appreciation thing should be a year round event right? Good, just checking.) So it is Continue Reading
Movie review – Captain America: Civil War
When you walk into a Marvel movie, you can usually be pretty sure of what to expect. The necessary superhero contingent, either singular or massed, a leering, hubris-drenched baddy with the sort of lac of self-awareness that allows them to think they will emerge victorious, a narrative punctuated by Continue Reading
Life is a poisoned chalice in Tom Hardy’s Taboo
SNAPSHOT Set in 1814, Taboo follows James Keziah Delaney, a man who has been to the ends of the earth and come back irrevocably changed. Believed to be long dead, he returns home to London from Africa to inherit what is left of his father’s shipping empire and rebuild a life for himself. Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: EVE captures humanity’s final mesmerising moments
SNAPSHOT A 3D movie set in a futuristic & poetic universe without any dialog. The last moments of humanity on earth before nature resumes his duties. Eve is a short film shot and imagined in 3D with a professional filmmaking team, including Joséphine Derobe as the 3D stereographer, who Continue Reading
Movie review: A Month of Sundays
Frank Mollard (Anthony Lapaglia) has fallen out of love with life. The result of losing his marriage to TV medical drama actor Wendy (Justine Clarke) eight months earlier, and the recent death of his mother which has overwhelmed and consumed him, Frank is a listless, enervated man, lacking any Continue Reading
“Oh the Places it’ll Snow”: Game of Thrones gets a whimsical Dr Seuss touch
Oh the weather outside is frightful Adn the White Walkers are not delightful And since we’ve no place to go Let It (Jon) Snow! Let It (Jon) Snow! Let It (Jon) Snow! Granted those lyrics are from the famous song by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne, “Let it Snow! Continue Reading
May the 4th Be With You: C-3PO’s life story told in a “Mr Roboto” by Styx way
Like all of us, C-3PO, one of the three iconic droids of the Star Wars universe – welcome BB-8 to C-3PO and R2-D2‘s side! – has a life story (one which now includes an explanation for that red arm he sports in The Force Awakens). From his humble origins Continue Reading