Losing someone you love deeply is never, ever easy. No matter how much positive thinkers encourage us to celebrate life, look on the bright side of things, and believe life will go on and be even better than it was before our great loss, the reality is a good Continue Reading
“It’s just time for us to be in the real world”: The moving trailer for Boulevard, Robin Williams’ final performance
SNAPSHOT In Boulevard, the routine of everyday life quietly peels away to reveal the struggle of a loving husband in conflict with his inner-self. Nolan Mack (Williams) and his wife Joy (Baker) wake up under the same roof each morning, their separate bedrooms underscoring the disparate worlds they’re living Continue Reading
Run! And Fear the Walking Dead (trailers + poster)
SNAPSHOT The series will star Cliff Curtis (Missing, Gang Related), Kim Dickens (Gone Girl, Sons of Anarchy), Frank Dillane (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) and Alycia Debnam Carey (Into the Storm). It will take place far away from the Atlanta, Georgia setting of The Walking Dead in the Continue Reading
Whistle while you work: Todrick Hall sings his way through Disney’s musical catalogue
If you’re a parent, or frankly anyone closely related to or looking after a child under five – guilty as charged; I’m the happy uncle to four adorable nieces and nephews – there is a better than average chance the only song that has been lodged in your earworm since about Continue Reading
Z For Zachariah: Love and lust in a time of apocalypse
SNAPSHOT In the wake of a nuclear war, a young woman survives on her own, fearing she may actually be the proverbial last woman on earth, until she discovers the most astonishing sight of her life: another human being. A distraught scientist, he’s nearly been driven mad by radiation Continue Reading
Cookie Monster hungrily handles a giant edible dinosaur in Sesame Street’s Jurassic Park parody
Technology is a marvellous thing isn’t it? It gives us the power to speak to a friend far away in an instant, or even fly quickly to see them, allows us to cure disease, throw together a dazzling, motivational Powerpoint presentation on a whim … and yes, create giant Continue Reading
Wanna Rock the Kasbah with Bill Murray? Of course you do!
SNAPSHOT Rock The Kasbah is the story of Richie Lanz, a rock manager with a golden ear and a taste for talent, who has seen better times. When he takes his last remaining client on a USO tour of Afghanistan, she gets cold feet and leaves him penniless and Continue Reading
Goofy gets his motoring Jekyll and Hyde on in the 1950 animated short Motor Mania
Goofy has always been my favourite Disney character. There’s something incredibly appealing about his innate, well, goofiness, an innocent, fun likeability that makes him somehow more relatable for me than say Mickey Mouse or Donald Duck. First appearing in Mickey’s revue in 1932, Goofy, described by the good folks Continue Reading
Reader beware: the nasty new edition of the Brothers Grimm (curated article)
Fairy tales have a tumultuous and fragile history. They originated as tales told by “folk”. They were passed down over generations to while away long winter nights, to provide entertainment at special occasions and for simple enjoyment. Inevitably, as more people became literate and scholars began to record fairy Continue Reading
Book review: Paper Towns by John Green
It’s worth asking in today’s information-saturated world, where everyone from the local deli operator to the highest earning CEO has an opinion and isn’t afraid to share it, how well we actually know the people around us. We would all like to think of course that we know our Continue Reading