*Watch out! There are Mechs, Beamers, Skitters … and spoilers this way!* Never was an episode more aptly named. If it wasn’t Tom (Noah Wylie) trying to talk his way out of temporary captivity at the hands of collaborationist brothers Nick (Gil Bellows) and Coop (Aaron Douglas) or Anne Continue Reading
Poster me this: Toy Story That Time Forgot, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
I, along with a great many people, never seem to be able to make it, for a whole host of reasons, to the greatest of all pop culture nirvanas, San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC), which by the time this post goes live, will be in full, crowded, technicolour swing. But absence from Continue Reading
Now this is music: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes soundtrack
The prognosis is damn near unanimous, even if the degrees of effusive praise may understandably vary – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is one of the best movies of the year, and certainly the best blockbuster to emerge thus far in a year of lacklustre contemporaries (Transformers: Continue Reading
Movie review: Snowpiercer
It is a tale, sadly enough, as old as time. The rich and the powerful, hoarders of resources and advantage, reckless, hedonistic spenders of time and life span, lording it over the poor, the downtrodden and the dispossessed who must eke out a living on the decayed breadcrumbs that Continue Reading
Pixar’s Lava: The warm glow of volcanic love
SNAPSHOT Lava will tell the story of a curmudgeonly volcano, Uku, and his hot top love interest across the sea, the mountain Lele. (synopsis via Huffington Post) Who doesn’t want someone to “lava”? We all do right, even volcano islands who they might be situated out in the middle Continue Reading
Everyone is already dead: Twelve Monkeys TV series debuts its first trailer
Way back in 1995, an intriguing sci-fi film y the name of Twelve Monkeys, starring Bruce Willis in prime badass mode, dropped into cinemas, one of the first of a wave of apocalyptically-disposed storytelling that twenty years hence has become a veritable flood. In this particular vision of the Continue Reading
(re)Visions: Alice – Interview: C. A Young, author of the novelette “The World in a Thimble”
This is the second in a series of interviews with the (re)Visions: Alice that I published on a now sadly defunct writing site back in 2012. I hope you enjoy discovering more about the authors behind these remarkably imaginative re-imagined tales. C. A Young is an American author whose intricate writing Continue Reading
Movie review: The Lunchbox
When it comes to expressing the universal need we all have to belong and be connected to others, I always thought no one said it better, at least in this pop culture-obsessed age, than the theme song for TV sitcom Cheers which famously stated “You wanna be where everybody knows Continue Reading
Big Hero 6 leaps into action with its second trailer
SNAPSHOT Set in a fictional metropolis called San Fransokyo (a portmanteau of San Francisco and Tokyo), a young prodigy named Hiro Hamada and his self-created robot Baymax uncover a criminal plot and must join a team of inexperienced crime fighters,[8] including Wasabi-No-Ginger, Honey Lemon, GoGo Tomago, and Fred. (synopsis Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Face art of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
There is a great deal to like about the recently-released Dawn of the Planet of the Apes which defied the usual trend of sequels by being every bit the equal of its predecessor Rise of the Planet of the Apes. One of the aspects of the movie that most Continue Reading