“A man walks through his life. He stumbles, and he falls. At times, he thinks he cannot get up, but he does. Over, and over, until one day, when the man cannot hold up the sky falling all around him anymore. Then, he reaches his journey’s end. But there Continue Reading
#allthefeels: The emotions of Inside Out let it all out watching the Avengers: Age of Ultron trailer
This is pure genius! Some very clever people in the marketing department of Disney New Zealand have combined the current Marvel juggernaut Avengers: Age of Ultron with its upcoming Pixar blockbuster Inside Out to create the trailer to end all trailers. OK that might be going a tad overboard but Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The many colourful faces of R2-D2 at the #R2ME2 exhibition
SNAPSHOT The Force is strong with this collective of creative minds from across the galaxy! Starting with a blank prototype of our Deluxe R2-D2 Sixth Scale Figure, Sideshow invited over 90 friends and fans to participate in customizing the iconic droid with a brand new look. Check out a Continue Reading
Movie review: Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Life is a thousand shades of muted beige for the titular lost soul of director David Zellner’s deftly-crafted idiosyncratic search for meaning Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter. Trapped in a dead end job working as an Office Lady, well past the age of 25 when most of these women either marry Continue Reading
Zoom! Fast and Furious and Pixar’s Cars get their revs on in IGN’s inspired mash-up
“The most important thing in life will always be the people right here, right now. That’s what real.” Those touching words are lifted verbatim from Fast and Furious 7 (uttered by lead character Dominic Toretto played by Vin Diesel), the latest instalment in a franchise that seems to go Continue Reading
Now this is music #49 – Planet Parade, Sekuoia, Salt Ashes, Waldo & Marsha, Inni-K
Life hey? It’s bland, it’s crazy colourful; it’s predictably the same, it’s a thousand kinds of different; a multitude of unceasing demands, an oasis of calm. However it plays out for you, and if you’re like most people no two days are ever truly the same, it’s good to Continue Reading
Bless you! Orange is the New Black season 3 has a divinely good new poster (+ trailer)
It is a blessed third coming indeed. To the pounding sounds of Imagine Dragons’ “I’m So Sorry”, we’re reunited with the inmates of Litchfield State Penitentiary, all of whom are worthy of our time although some, so the poster suggests, are more deserving of our devotion than others. Netflix’s newly-released Continue Reading
Outlander: Lallybroch (S1, E12 review)
* SPOILERS AND CULTURAL CLASHES AHEAD * Jamie: “I need you to trust me here. My family. My land. My time. I am Laird and you are my lady. We should conduct ourselves as such.” Claire: “I’m not the meek and obedient type.” Soooo … it’s been a Continue Reading
Trips to see grandma just got creepy with M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit
SNAPSHOT The Visit is written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, The Village), which he also produced with Blumhouse Productions (Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge, Sinister). The film employs a found footage style of storytelling to follow a brother and sister (Ed Oxenbould, Olivia Continue Reading
Quake in fear invading cookies of Bon Bon for the Aveggies are here! (Sesame Street parody)
“People of Earth, prepare to be desserted! Mwahahaha!” You may have noticed that a small, low budget indie film by the name of Avengers: Age of Ultron is currently in cinemas, the latest in Marvel’s long line of super successful superhero movies to triumph at the box office. Even Continue Reading