*SPOILERS AHEAD … COOLERS FULL OF ICE AND FISH, REGRETS AND PARANOIA … NO SIGN OF THE PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE* Wholly in keeping with its apocalyptic mandate, Fear the Walking Dead got all badass, end-of-times Biblical this week with “Pillar of Salt”. Presumably a reference to Continue Reading
Great danger is looming: Moana and the eternal needs for heroes and demi-gods
SNAPSHOT Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped – and no one knows why. From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes Moana, a sweeping, CG-animated feature film about Continue Reading
How could you miss the zombie apocalypse AND Rick and Morty? Shaun of the Dead manages to hilariously do both
You’d think that zombies wandering the streets, all looking to devour your flesh in the most primal ways possible, would be a hard thing to miss. But Shaun (Simon Pegg), the eponymous protagonist of 2004’s horror comedy Shaun of the Dead, manages it, not just once but repeatedly. It Continue Reading
Happy International Angela Lansbury Appreciation Day everyone! #Fansbury
It goes without saying, but I will say it anyway, that Dame Angela Brigid Lansbury is one amazing lady. Born in 1925, her career has spanned an enviable number of decades, beginning in the early 1940s with a number of film roles such as Gaslight (1944) and The Picture Continue Reading
Book review: Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
In almost every respect Simon Spier is your typical American 16 year old. He’s popular but not too popular, dabbles in drama productions at school where he sits with a motley array of old friends, jocks and new arrivals at lunch, has lifelong friends in Nick and Leah, a Continue Reading
Aftermath: Storms, meteors, plagues and the end of the world
SNAPSHOT James Tupper and Anne Heche star In Aftermath, which follows the Copeland family (parents Karen and Joshua, and their children Dana, Brianna and Matt) as they battle for survival when civilization comes to an apocalyptic end, triggered by massive storms, meteor strikes, earthquakes, a plague – and the Continue Reading
Movie review: The Confirmation
For most people, an every-other-weekend with their partly-shared custody kid would comprise a trip to the park, maybe a X-box game or two and perhaps even dinner out to somewhere fun and nutritionally suspect. But Walt is not most people and in Bob Nelson’s (Nebraska) latest excursion into the Continue Reading
Then the world went hazy: Ninth City Burning book trailer
SNAPSHOT We never saw them coming. Entire cities disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving nothing but dust and rubble. When an alien race came to make Earth theirs, they brought with them a weapon we had no way to fight, a universe-altering force known as thelemity. It Continue Reading
CLIP ME! “Tilted” by Christine and the Queens
It’s a rare thing as you get older – not too old thank you, just older – when the first blush of musical discovery that so defines your teens has dissipated and you either only listen to the music of those turbulent years or use them as a stepping Continue Reading
Coffee and sneaky feminism: First page of the Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life script
As a non-coffee drinker of long standing – too bitter and frankly it looks like mud; sorry, not sorry – I never quite understood Lorelai’s obsession with drinking java at every possible opportunity. Still, it was intrinsically and amusingly part of her character and so like everything else about Continue Reading