One of the great joys of being in a long-term relationship is the comfort that comes from feeling you know everything about your partner. It’s highly likely you don’t since we all tend to keep things large and small from the people we love, no matter the level of Continue Reading
The higher you rise, the further you fall: The chilling world of High-Rise
SNAPSHOT A big screen adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s novel, High-Rise centers on a new residential tower built on the eve of Margaret Thatcher’s rise to power, at the site of what will soon become the world’s financial hub. Designed as a luxurious solution to the problems of the city, Continue Reading
First impressions: Superstore
If you’ve been paying attention to network sitcoms, and by that I mean anything that appears on NBC, CBS or ABC and yes even Fox these days, you will have noticed that they have an aversion to straying too far from the norm. They may get occasionally wacky or out Continue Reading
Smash! Deadpool’s just the latest film to fearlessly step through the fourth wall
You might recall that one of the many charms of Deadpool, of which there are many not the least Ryan Reynolds energetically mischievous ballsy performance as the eponymous hero, was his propensity to break the fourth walk with hilarious alacrity. That is he addressed the audience directly, in the Continue Reading
Goodbye foul book, I love you not: Why I hate giving up reading something midstream
I am not good at giving up on something before its natural end. (With the exception of cleaning up my room where there is no such thing as stopping too early.) This applies to eating meals, where I must finish all the food on my plate – blame my Continue Reading
It’s a clones world after all: Orphan Black season 4 photos
SNAPSHOT Sarah (played by the mercurial Tatiana Maslany) returns home from her Icelandic hideout to track down an elusive new ally tied to deceased clone Beth, whose identity Sarah stole in the series’ first episode. With the stakes higher than ever before, Sarah and her sestras band together to Continue Reading
Movie review: Blind Date (Un peu beaucoup aveuglément) #afff2016
You know the story. Girl moves into apartment. Guy in neighbouring apartment pretends to haunt her to scare her off. She wises up. A battle of wills ensues until true love blossoms but they don’t meet preferring to stay behind their respective walls and … wait, what? If you Continue Reading
Life without Joel McHale’s upcoming book Thanks for the Money? “Meaningless”, that’s what!
I love books by celebrities. And by that I mean clever, funny, insightful, whimsical, well-written books by celebrities that surprise and amuse, delight and make you think such as Lena Dunham’s Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned (2014), Aziz Ansari’s Modern Romance: An Investigation (2015), Continue Reading
It’s a Huge Great Bloody Movie Sweetie: Ab Fab the film debuts poster + trailer
SNAPSHOT ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: THE MOVIE reunites Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley as the iconic Edina and Patsy along with the rest of the original cast that includes Julia Sawalha as Saffy, Jane Horrocks as Bubble and June Whitfield as Mother. The award-winning team behind the camera includes Mandie Fletcher Continue Reading
The Walking Dead – “Not Tomorrow Yet” (S6, E12 review)
*SPOILERS … BRIGHT RED LIGHTS AND MORAL CONUNDRUMS AHEAD* Sinners or saints? It was THE big question looming large over The Walking Dead this week in “Not Tomorrow Yet” when everyone was forced to confront whether they weren’t getting a little morally questionable and relativistic in their old Continue Reading