Life is a curiously complex thing. Euphorically up one moment, desperately down the next, and a confused hot mess in-between, it is never less than utterly unpredictable even when it feels like it’s stuck in some sort of bland sameness. These five artists, who hail from quite divergent parts Continue Reading
Chomp! Jurassic World gets a giant dinosaur-sized new trailer
Ah humanity! No matter how many “bombs” explode in our face, or how often the darker angels of our nature rise up to shake us with their fury, we somehow fail to see the great big elephant of hubris standing in the room, the one that warns us time Continue Reading
Movie review: Into the Woods
If you think postmodern tinkering with the classics is simply a 21st century internet-accelerated phenomenon, then Into the Woods, both musical and now big screen adaptation, is proof positive that the mixing of old style storytelling and modern telling-it-like-really-is moralistic sensibilities goes back a lot further than that. In Continue Reading
“Ted, do you believe you have a soul?” Yes, and a poster and trailer too.
ted is not for everyone, I will grant you that. Sprung forth from the creative loins of Seth McFarlane, the man who gave us Family Guy and American Dad, all packed to the gasp-inducing rafters with more weird journeys into the twisted parts of his imaginative psyche than we actually knew Continue Reading
“What if there was a place where nothing was impossible?”: New Tomorrowland trailer
SNAPSHOT From Disney comes two-time Oscar winner Brad Bird’s riveting, mystery adventure Tomorrowland, starring Academy Award winner George Clooney. Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank (Clooney), jaded by disillusionment, and Casey (Britt Robertson), a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to Continue Reading
Book review: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
For a place and time that humanity is yet to reach, the future dystopian era certainly bears all the hallmarks of a road well travelled. In fact, so well depicted have been its tropes of ruin and decay, its harbingers of humanity’s demise and whirlwind-reaping that you could be Continue Reading
Brain-filled pasta anyone? iZombie debuts a freshly undead trailer
SNAPSHOT Rose McIver stars as Olivia “Liv” Moore, a rosy-cheeked, disciplined, over-achieving medical resident who had her life path completely mapped out… until the night she attended a party that unexpectedly turned into a zombie feeding frenzy. As one of the newly undead, Liv has devised a way to Continue Reading
There’s no need to be afraid of Myrna the Monster (short film)
Love isn’t easy … for anyone really. Imagine though how much harder it must be when you’re a young kidnapped alien from the moon, all alone on earth with no one for company, your only activities playing the recorder in the trash, holding up ad signs for fried chicken shops Continue Reading
The Many Epiphanies Of Jessica Fletcher: A Murder She Wrote compilation
When I was but a wee lad – OK slightly older than a wee lad but hardly the veteran TV watcher of today – in the mid-1980s, I was absolutely devoted to Murder She Wrote, a show than on CBS from 1984 to 1996 (followed by four movies released Continue Reading
Go back in time with 8-bit Guardians of the Galaxy
Star Lord and the gang of Guardians of the Galaxy may zip around the galaxy in faster than light ships, outwitting powerful nemeses and rescuing everyone from certain and imminent death but they are at heart ’80s kids – well onetime Earthling Peter Quill aka Star Lord who clings Continue Reading