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
The short and the short of it film festival : 3 quirky animated films with unlikely heroes
Short films are a wonderful thing. They allow you to enter someone’s world for a brief point in time, catch a ride on the narrative of their life for a stop or two and then leap, wiser, enthralled and amused for having met them. The really good ones, and Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “We All Fall Down” (S2, E2 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND BEACH-GOING ZOMBIES AND CREEPY ODD SURVIVALISTS* “We don’t talk to strangers” (Victor Strand) Remember when you were a sweet, trusting child and your parents instilled in you over and over that talking to strangers was a Bad Thing? It was pronounced in the sort Continue Reading
They’re back! The return of Calvin and Hobbes
The popularity of Calvin and Hobbes continues apace, over 20 years after creator/philosopher/one of the greatest cartoonists who has ever lived retired the much-loved comic strip. While every fan including yours truly wishes that more new strips would be forthcoming, there’s also an acceptance and admiration for Watterson finishing Continue Reading