If you must blink … do it now American-based production house Laika has firmly established itself over the course of the last seven years and four luminously good feature films such as Coraline and The Boxtrolls, as a master storyteller of the highest order. Their gift for enchanting films Continue Reading
What’s up Doc?! The origins of Bugs Bunny that’s what!
SNAPSHOT He doesn’t seem like a character from the nineteen forties. His anarchic gender-bending wiseass personality is pretty progressive even by today’s standards and he’s aged so well because he isn’t locked in any one specific pool of relatability. Something like the Flintstones can be revived again and again Continue Reading
Now this is music: Songs from The Blacklist #2 (season 3)
The Blacklist is one of those shows that seemed to spring forth fully-formed when it premiered on NBC on 23 September 2013. Possessed of an intriguing premise – one of the world’s most wanted criminals, Raymond “Red” Reddington, played with uncompromising joie de vivre and glee by James Spader, Continue Reading
Everyone deserves love: Lance Bass presents Prince Charming with a twist
Falling in love is hands down one of the most wonderful things that can happen to you. Along with the fluttering heart, the giddy obsession with one person and one person only, and the sense that life is exultantly beautiful and can only gets better, is the deeply satisfying Continue Reading
Movie review: Truman
Losing someone to death is a harrowing experience by any estimation. So harrowing in fact that Tomás (Javier Cámara), married and living in Canada, and one of the central characters in director Cesc Gay’s Truman, has strenuously resisted visiting his terminally-ailing actor best friend Julián (Ricardo Darín) in Madrid Continue Reading
Get ready to get stuck in The Middle all over again (S8 promo + poster)
SNAPSHOT This year, the kids will find themselves breaking out of their comfort zones and navigating new situations than what they’re used to – which may or may not be very comforting to Frankie and Mike. Between juggling shifts and picking up fast-food dinners eaten in front of the Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Los Muertos” (S2, E9 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … BUS RIDES TO HELL … AND A SALUTORY LESSON IN NOT DRINKING AND ZOMBIE-SLAYING* It’s hardly surprising in a show called Fear the Walking Dead that you would have an episode devoted to death. In fact, it would be entirely reasonable if that’s all anyone Continue Reading
Everybody wants to rule the world: Gloriously good Game of Thrones montage video
It’s no secret, not after countless books by George R. R. Martin and six seasons of HBO’s watercooler-stomping megahit TV show, that everybody, and I mean everybody, wants to rule to rule the world. Or in this case, sit upon the Iron Throne and look out upon the Seven Continue Reading
Life upends spectacularly in the highly-emotional Manchester by the Sea
SNAPSHOT After the death of his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler), Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is shocked to learn that Joe has made him sole guardian of his nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges). Taking leave of his job, Lee reluctantly returns to Manchester-by-the-Sea to care for Patrick, a spirited 15-year-old, Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: What if every TV show starred cats?
Cats are natural born actors. Sure much of the time they pit their prodigious talents one side in favour of living a boldly authentic life, one which includes turning up their noses at the cat food they normally devour in one sitting and demanding to be out the back Continue Reading