Community‘s long fought for #sixseasonsandamovie great resurrection, long heralded, ballyhooed and celebrated, is about to be make its hilariously offbeat presence felt. Debuting on March 17, 2015 on its new home Yahoo Screen! – Yahoo! swept in as a white knight when NBC finally cancelled the show after prevaricating for Continue Reading
Now this is music #46: ALA.NI, MONOGEM, Marika Hackman, Stonefox, Great Lake Swimmers
There is something utterly wondrous about losing yourself in music. Cut loose from the biting concerns of the everyday, music, particularly the clever, beautiful kind made by the following five artists, is a refuge from a world that sometimes forgets that our souls need to be courted every bit as Continue Reading
Movie review: The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
Time is a cruel mistress/master/old man with a scythe and not much in the way of new opportunities past a certain point, an often less than palatable fact of life that formed the centrepiece of the charming British comedy with a message The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012). In Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: Remember (S5, E12 review)
*THERE BE SPOILERS AND DEADHEADS AND ROAMERS AND WALKERS OH MY! AHEAD* Ladies and gentleman of the zombie apocalypse, welcome to The Walking Dead Guide to Moving in the Age of the Undead! Let’s be honest – moving after the end of the world is never easy. There are Continue Reading
We be trippin’ to the latest trailer for Wayward Pines, the most “perfect” town on earth
SNAPSHOT Secret Service Agent ETHAN BURKE (Academy Award nominee Matt Dillon, Crash, City of Ghosts) drives to the bucolic town of Wayward Pines, ID, searching for two missing federal agents. Ethan is the logical choice for the mission. He’s one of the best Secret Service agents in the Seattle Continue Reading
Very much still one of my favourite things: The Sounds of Music turns 50
One of the great sacred rites of my childhood, which all my family observed with suitable pomp, ceremony and gleeful delight, but alas without wearing clothes made from hideously-ugly curtains, was sitting down to watch the annual screening on our sole commercial TV station – yes the barbarism of limited Continue Reading
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious goes death metal: Mary Poppins as you’ve never heard her before
It will come as no surprise to anyone that movies often significantly depart from the books upon which they are based. That doesn’t necessarily mean they are a diminished form of the story; simply different. Some authors, however such as J. D. Salinger and Roald Dahl, most certainly thought the movie adaptations Continue Reading
Movie review: Queens and Cowboys #mgff2015
Food, water and shelter aside, one of the most basic needs a person can have is the one to belong. Whether we are conscious of it or not, or even admit to its existence, all of us are looking for a group of likeminded people we can call family, Continue Reading
Velociraptors on motorcycles! This Jurassic Park parody video is pre-hysterically funny
I have no doubt that the upcoming Jurassic World film, which features Chris Pratt as velociraptor-wrangling, Indian Jones-arua emitting, dinosaur DNA-fiddling averse hero-in-the-making Owen Grady will be a tour deforce of edge-of-your-seat prehistoric thrill-making. And I am also fully convinced that the dinosaurs that will fill the film, from said Continue Reading
You know we can’t Let It Go: new short Frozen Fever gets a trailer worth holding on to
As you may have noticed if you haven’t been trapped under an ice floe for the past 15 months or so (and possibly still even then), Frozen, Disney’s music-filled, visually-stunning, heartwarming take on Hans Christian Anderson’s fairytale “The Snow Queen”, is a BIG DEAL. I mean, grossed $1.2bn [insert Dr. Continue Reading