SNAPSHOT Matt Damon returns to his most iconic role in “Jason Bourne.” Paul Greengrass, the director of “The Bourne Supremacy” and “The Bourne Ultimatum,” once again joins Damon for the next chapter of Universal Pictures’ Bourne franchise, which finds the CIA’s most lethal former operative drawn out of the Continue Reading
Flagstones! It’s the Flagstones! They’re the modern Stone Age … wait, what what now?!
While some of the more obscure Hanna-Barbera characters such as Squiddly Diddly or Jabberjaw may not very well known among the general public, there’s one family, a “Modern Stone Age Family” in fact, who everyone will instantly recognise – The Flintstones. But The Flintstones didn’t start out life as Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2016: Week 4 – Albania, Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
Looking for Mr. Right? Be careful what you wish for
SNAPSHOT Mr. Right, written by Landis and directed by Paco Cabezas, stars the ever-talented Sam Rockwell and the ever-likeable Anna Kendrick. Kendrick plays the quirky Martha who gets her heart broken after catching her boyfriend cheating on her. She seems to give up on finding a good man until Continue Reading
Eurovision in LEGO? One mega fan has answered your unspoken prayers
I like to think of myself as a fairly dedicated viewer of The Eurovision Song Contest. After all, I review every single song entered for a particular year’s contest, blog about them with as much wit and insight as I can muster and host a party with my boyfriend Continue Reading
Movie review: Midnight Special
If you have ever wondered how completely and to what ends a father could believe in and love his son, then look no further than Mike Nichols’ latest masterpiece, Midnight Special, for the answer. While the film is ostensibly about a remarkable 8 year old boy Alton Meyer (Jaeden Continue Reading
Imagining Zootopia: What it took to make this amazing animated film
SNAPSHOT What did it take to bring the world of ‘Zootopia’ to life? Fusion spent two years with the production team of Disney’s smash hit film. In ‘Imagining Zootopia,’ you will travel with the team to Africa to explore the animals in their natural habitat and find out how Continue Reading
Book review: Barney by Guy Sigley
Barney is a loser. Shhhh that’s OK, he won’t mind me saying that – after all it’s not like it isn’t something that Barney Conroy, protagonist in Guy Sigley’s hilariously all-too-relatable novel Barney (A novel about a guy called Barney) hasn’t told himself every day of his miserable, unfulfilling Continue Reading
VEEP season 5: More fun and games in the corridors of misused power
Being the President of the United States is not an easy undertaking. Especially when, as we saw at the end of season 4 of VEEP, you’re Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and your dream run to the presidency is rather cruelly complicated by ending up with the same number of Continue Reading
Movie review: The Jungle Book
It is a rare and wondrous thing indeed to be transported by a film so completely far away from the everyday grind that you almost forget you are sitting in a cinema watching it all unfold. But that miraculous feat is accomplished within seconds of Jon Favreau’s delightful live Continue Reading