It’s been over a year since we last feasted our eyes on some emotionally-rich, well-told feature length animation from Pixar (2013’s Monsters University) and I feel SAD (I’ve missed their beautiful stories) … And ANGRY (at the wait) … and FEARFUL (there won’t be another film ever) … and Continue Reading
A recipe for Captain Picard face palm cookies? Get me to a kitchen and … Engage!
Being the captain of a Starfleet vessel is not an easy task at any time, what with aggressive Klingons or Romulans always on the lookout for a bruising encounter, Q liable to pop at a moment’s notice and inconvenient rips in the space/time continuum to contend with. It’s even Continue Reading
Now this is music: The eye-poppingly fun visuals of 5 J-Pop and K-Pop music artists
Something altogether unexpected happened to Western music charts in 2012 when Korean singer PSY‘s song “Gangnam Style”, a viral phenomenon on social media (he became the first Korean artist to top the iTunes Music Video Charts), shot to #1 in countries around the world, including most importantly the world’s Continue Reading
“Those aren’t mountains, those are waves”: Interstellar’s latest magnificent trailer
Christopher Nolan is the go to man if you’re looking for sharply-written, brilliantly-articulated sci-fi films with as much substance as they have visual style. It’s the reason why his latest masterpiece Interstellar – no, I haven’t seen it but after movies like the masterful Inception and the moody but insightful Dark Continue Reading
“Gorgonzola is attacking us Captain!” Star Drunk, an hilarious space drama by drunk people
Going into space is not for the fainthearted. I am not saying that from personal experience of course since (a) I am not Neil Armstrong or any of the other 23 men who ventured to the moon during NASA’s golden age of lunar exploration, (b) Laika, a dog Continue Reading
Scorpion: “Pilot” (S1, E1 review)
Scorpion is, on paper at least – and let’s face it, none of the characters, save for possibly veteran FBI special Agent Gabe Callo (Robert Patrick), would be seen dead around anything so physical and antiquated – a bundle of well-used network formula drama tropes that have been gathered together from various police Continue Reading
Movie review: The Little Death
Australian cinema is nothing if not brave and brutally frank, a reflection of a national psyche that is, by and large, willing to tackle an issue rather than leave it happily unattended. And while this narrative embracing of the elephant in the room often pays dividends, it can also result Continue Reading
Bring on the bloopers: The light side of Star Trek Into Darkness
SNAPSHOT Director J.J. Abrams’ global sensations Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness set a course for the ultimate home entertainment package in STAR TREK: THE COMPENDIUM, arriving September 9, 2014 from Paramount Home Media Distribution. The set includes four Blu-ray Discs with both films in sparkling high definition Continue Reading
Undead LOLZ: The Walking Dead S4 gets the Bad-Lip Reading treatment
There isn’t much to laugh about in the deadly serious world of The Walking Dead. After all, a mysterious virus has long since turned the vast majority of the world’s population into slavering, flesh-craving undead beings, left those people who remain alive fighting day by day, inch by inch Continue Reading
Lena Dunham wants you to know she’s Not That Kind of Girl
Lena Dunham is an impressively talented young lady. Along with creating, writing and starring in the critically-acclaimed and immensely popular HBO show Girls, about the lives of four flawed but earnest twenty something women in New York, and heading up projects via her production company such as the documentary Three Suits Continue Reading