Life hey? It comes with ups and downs, smiles and frowns (don’t worry I am not planning some sort of weird poetry thing here), peaks and valleys, thrillingly novel events and beige banal moments, and all manner of helter-skelter what-the-hell emotions in and around it all. Articulating how all of Continue Reading
Inconceivable! The Princess Bride gets mashed up with Games of Thrones in a video of unusual awesomeness
* WARNING: THERE IS NSFW VIOLENCE AND MILD SEXUAL CONTENT plus SPOILERS FROM FIRST FOUR SEASONS OF GAMES OF THRONES * Buckle up kids, this ain’t your grandmother’s The Princess Bride! Or is it? Perhaps The Princess Bride and Games of Thrones have far more in common that you might Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: Spend (S5, E14 review)
* THERE ARE SPOILERS AND REVOLVING DOORS O’ DEATH AND SATAN DRESSED AS GABRIEL … I MEAN, AN ANGEL OF LIGHT … AH, SAME SAME * All my greatest fears were realised in this brutal-as-a-summer-day-is-long episode of The Walking Dead. No, not my fears of what might happen to Continue Reading
You spin me right round: One woman journeys through life via a magical vinyl single in Oscar-nominated animated short, A Single Life
SNAPSHOT A Single Life is an animated short film in which Pia finds a vinyl single. When playing the mysterious single, Pia is suddenly able to travel through her life. If she spins the record forward, she becomes older. If she skips backwards, she gets younger. (synopsis via Vimeo) Continue Reading
Book review: King of the Road by Nigel Bartlett
Humanity has a fraught relationship with justice. While we have gone to great lengths to give its often divine imperatives workable earthly form, setting up aspirationally-impartial policing and judicial systems beholding to no one person or hierarchy, in practice, they have often been found lacking, their ability to bring about the Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: Self/less (trailer)
SNAPSHOT An extremely wealthy man (Ben Kingsley), dying from cancer, undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man (Ryan Reynolds). But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body’s origin and the Continue Reading
When Winnie the Pooh needs more than just a smackerel of honey, you need an interdivention! (British radio play sketch)
“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for Continue Reading
There be dragons: Game of Thrones season 5 poster, trailers + clips
Hail dear friends it is time go back to the fair lands of Westeros once more! There is something about George R. R. Martin’s sprawling saga of power, death and dragons that inspires those kinds of faux-Shakespearian introduction lines, which is set to become even more epic in the upcoming Continue Reading
A whole (furry) new world: The gorgeous concept art of Disney’s Zootopia
SNAPSHOT The modern mammal metropolis of Zootopia is a city like no other. Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it’s a melting pot where animals from every environment live together—a place where no matter what you are, from the biggest elephant to the smallest Continue Reading
Like a leaf on the wind: Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion’s bold new Con Man adventure
SNAPSHOT Con Man centers around the post-show life of Wray Nerely, (Tudyk) the pilot and co-star of SPECTRUM, a sci-fi series which was cancelled before it’s time and eventually became a cult classic beloved by fans. Wray’s good friend, Jack Moore (Fillion) starred in the series and has gone Continue Reading