Mash-ups are all the rage in our digital postmodern age. So it makes perfect sense that someone would eventually merge together The Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer with some tasty Pixar scenes to create the kind of movie that I would see in a heartbeat. I mean, Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Wrath” / “North” (S2, E 14 & 15)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A ROUSING GAME OF WHACK-A-ZOMBIE …” Season finales of apocalyptically-inclined shows like Fear the Walking Dead are usually fairly grim, violence-packed affairs when the metaphorical apple carts of all the characters are upset, things go even more to hell in a handbasket than they have Continue Reading
Who are you really? Split examines life for one man with 23 personalities
SNAPSHOT While the mental divisions of those with dissociative identity disorder have long fascinated and eluded science, it is believed that some can also manifest unique physical attributes for each personality, a cognitive and physiological prism within a single being. Though Kevin (James McAvoy) has evidenced 23 personalities to Continue Reading
Book review: The Finding of Martha Lost by Caroline Wallace
Compelling though many protagonists are, and they need to be if you’re going to make it to the end of the average novel, it’s a rare thing indeed to fall headlong in love with a lead character to the extent that you do with the whimsical, trusting but ultimately Continue Reading
Poster me this! The Flash, The Walking Dead, Legends of Tomorrow
I’m a visual guy. Explain something to me using big, bright pictures and clearly-spelled out steps and I’m happy as a pig in really clean, easy-to-wash-off mud. The same goes for the advertising of TV shows (and movies for that matter) – gift me with a really cool, memorable Continue Reading
Thanks For the Money: Joel McHale debuts his book’s hilariously quirky trailer
Joel McHale is a very funny man. Blessed with model-handsome good looks and spot-on comic timing, he has gifted us with humourous performances as Jeff Winger in Community, and 11 years of amusingly satirical hosting of The Soup (2004 – 2015). And now, in keeping with the man’s gifted Continue Reading
Road to Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life #2: “The Bracebridge Dinner” (S2, E10)
It would be fair to say that Stars Hollow, the cosy, postcard-perfect town that Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and Rory (Alexis Bledel) is as much a character in the show as any of its human inhabitants. Sporting the requisite central town square, quaint shopfronts, and cosy neighbourhoods you can walk Continue Reading
Obsessed with film? So is Movie Mind Machine in the most hilarious way
The novelty of watching a movie for the first time, particularly one you end up loving and adoring more than popcorn itself, never grows old. But alas watching those favourite movies most certainly does. It’s not that you don’t enjoy re-watching them – though in my world that’s a Continue Reading
From Bowie to Bieber: The under-appreciated art of the music video (curated article)
The spectacular release of Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade earlier this year, and the critical response to it, has fleetingly put the music video in the spotlight. For a ubiquitous and influential art form, music videos tend to be easily dismissed and under-analysed, which means it took something as extreme Continue Reading
What’s going on? What’s happening? Will and Grace cast (temporarily) reunite
In news that thrilled the hearts of almost everyone – TIME Magazine was NOT a fan let’s be honest – the cast of Will and Grace (1998-2006) reunited for an all-too-brief 10 minute episode all about the 2016 U.S. Presidential election. Centred on Will (Eric McCormack), Grace (Debra Messing), Continue Reading