SNAPSHOT After 15 years of living in a cult, the unbreakable and wide-eyed Kimmy (Ellie Kemper, The Office) is rescued along with three other women, causing a national sensation that culminates with an appearance on the Today show. Before getting back on the bus to Indiana, however, Kimmy decides Continue Reading
Book review: The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter F. Hamilton
(image via Tor Books UK; I was going to photograph my own cover but all my enthusiastic reading left some of the letter a little less than glossy)[/caption] It is a conundrum almost as old as time itself – do the ends always justify the means? It’s one of the Continue Reading
Movie review: Still Alice
Alice Howland (Julianne Moore) is one very accomplished woman. Barely 50, and in the prime of her life, she is a fiercely-intelligent, much-admired professor of linguistics at Columbia University in New York, a fitness fanatic, wife to equally-as-accomplished John (Alec Baldwin), and mother of three to Anna (Kate Bosworth), Tom (Hunter Parrish) and Continue Reading
Selina swaps VPOTUS for POTUS in HBO’s teaser trailer for Veep season 4
Where we left Veep at the end of season 3 The episode, and season, conclude with no joy and little meaningful resolution, which is exactly how Veep, a show that’s at its best when its characters’ situations are at their most dire, should end. Selina’s struggling in the primaries. Continue Reading
5 things I love about this year’s sleeper hit Jane the Virgin
* Some minor spoilers contained within (though limited as much as possible) * On January 2015, a hitherto little-known actress by the name of Gina Rodriguez stepped onto the stage at the Beverly Hilton to receive her Golden Globes award for Best Performance by an actress in a television Continue Reading
Get ready to embrace your Sisters
SNAPSHOT Tina Fey and Amy Poehler reunite for Sisters, a new film from Pitch Perfect director Jason Moore about two disconnected sisters summoned home to clean out their childhood bedroom before their parents sell the family house. Looking to recapture their glory days, they throw one final high-school-style party Continue Reading
The dark retro mysteries of space: sci-fi short Atropa
SNAPSHOT An Off-World Detective investigates the missing research vessel Atropa, and is met with a much larger mystery than he ever expected. (synopsis via Ain’t It Cool) Let us never forget that space is a scary, scary place. What with xenomorphic aliens running amuck wanting to eat you (Alien), Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The Doctors Who of Dr Seuss
I was sorely tempted to start off this post with my very own Seuss-ian rhyme but you and I both know that I nor aany mortal soul could ever do the great man justice. So I will simply say that DeviantArt artist, DrFaustusAU, who specialises in traditional art, drawings, Continue Reading
Defeat the Shrieking Eels, and scale the Cliffs of Insanity in The Princess Bride mobile game!
Inconceivable! Inconceivable! (You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.) No, totally conceivable actually as the imaginative folks at Gameblend Studios have shown with the release of an iOS game that features many of the scenes, characters and impossible-to-forget catchphrases from the Continue Reading
Grab your Fedoras! We’re off into syfy’s The Expanse
“We made it so far out into the darkness; why couldn’t we have brought more light?” SNAPSHOT A thriller set two hundred years in the future, The Expanse follows the case of a missing young woman who brings a hardened detective and a rogue ship’s captain together in a Continue Reading