It would be easy to assume, given the recent deluge of movies adapted form red-hot popular YA novels,that there is a large factory hidden out the back of Hollywood in which pale and drawn authors, shackled to their typewriters (for they are far more evocative than PCs), are writing dystopian Continue Reading
Good times and bad guys: The dimly-lit world of Moonbeam City’s Dazzle Novak
SNAPSHOT Set in the 1980s, with the color palate to match, [Rob] Lowe plays Dazzle Novak, a not-so-bright undercover cop who is always in search of a good time (when in fact he should be hunting down the bad guys). Banks co-stars as Novak’s hard-ass boss, while [Kate] Mara Continue Reading
No one told you it was going to be this way: Happy 20th anniversary to everybody’s favourite Friends!
Happy 20th anniversary Friends! Yes, everyone, you are officially allowed to feel ridiculously, insanely old as you realise – rather quickly unfortunately thanks to the totally unambiguous declarative sentence that opens this anniversary tribute – that the first episode of Friends, a seminal sitcom that defined what life was life Continue Reading
Now this is music #38: The Knocks, Team Me, J Tropic, Fickle Friends, PROM
It doesn’t take much for life to get crazy busy does it? One extra project at work here, an unexpected errand there, and suddenly your calm and well-planned day goes spiralling out of control and with it your peace of mind and low blood pleasure. Which is why we’re lucky Continue Reading
Moone Boy: The comfort and power of an imaginary friend
“Ever wanted to be the imaginary friend of an idiot boy in the west of Ireland? Me neither. But there you go.” And with that pithy, funny, narrative-encapsulating line, Moone Boy, set in late 1980s Ireland and starring Chris O’Dowd (The IT Crowd, Girls, Family Tree) as said imaginary Continue Reading
Marvellous massing of movie trailers: Rudderless, While We’re Young, The Rewrite, White Bird in a Blizzard, Men Women & Children
I love the end of the year! So many wonderful, rich, intelligent dramas all throwing themselves at audiences, and of course Oscar (he of the Academy Awards) like lustful teenagers at a One Direction concert. I don’t even care that it will mean I never leave the cinema; it will Continue Reading
Thank you for being an incarcerated friend: Orange is the New Black meets The Golden Girls
There is no doubt that Netflix’s watercooler hit, Orange is the New Black, is seriously good, gripping drama and worthy of all the critical praise and fan-lovin’ that has come its way. But what if, wondered YouTube user Robert Jones, instead of being a searingly good portrait of life Continue Reading
The Big Bang Theory returns with S8! (See what happens behind the scenes)
The Big Bang Theory is back! After three humour-less Sheldon (Jim Parsons) and Amy Farrah-Fowler (Mayim Bialik) free months, weeks and weeks where Leonard (Johnny Galecki) and Penny (Kaley Cuoco) weren’t staring dreamily into each other’s eyes, and nanoseconds without number without Howard (Simon Helberg), Bernadette (Melissa Rauch) and Raj Continue Reading
Movie review: Wish I Was Here
Life can be a tough thing to get right. It’s shockingly shorter than we imagined it to be, far more complex and demanding and our attempts to make the most of it come with a raft of unintended consequences which often bear little or no resemblance to the way we thought Continue Reading
Neil Patrick Harris is going to let you Choose Your Own Autobiography (book trailer)
It’s looking like quite the year for informative, creative, fun books from celebrities. Not only do we have books from Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation) and Lena Dunham (Girls) to look forward to but now Neil Patrick Harris aka NPH himself has unveiled his own lifelong retrospective, Choose Your Continue Reading