If Shakespeare had made it through to the zombie apocalypse, then there’s every chance he would written something along these lines to describe the tone and feel of the penultimate mid-season eight episode, “Crossed”: Once more unto the Atlanta breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up Continue Reading
Movie review: The Drop
The Drop, based on Dennis Lehane’s short story “Animal Rescue” (part of his 2009 anthology Boston Noir), is less a crime drama, though that is undeniable part of its storytelling DNA, than a slow burning examination of one man’s attempts to live life on the terms he sets. Quiet Continue Reading
Make it hilarious! Star Trek: Next Generation blooper reel proves you can hear laughter in space
It’s serious business going boldly where no one has gone before. Much as Picard and his hardworking, seriously intense crew would like to spend all their time having a good chuckle in Ten Forward with their shipmates or throwing down a synthale and share some laughs with sexy Andorians on Risa, they’re Continue Reading
Candles and popcorn: My 3 favourite movies featuring birthdays
I love celebrating my birthday (which is today by the way should you wonder why I am volunteering this random piece of information). Or anyone’s birthday for that matter … yes, you, person I have never met reading my blog post, let’s celebrate your birthday! And why not? You Continue Reading
To be a Grimm or not to be a Grimm, that is the question: 3 things I am loving about season 4 of Grimm
A protagonist with extraordinary powers or perceptive abilities is hardly a rarity in popular fiction. Movies, TV shows, and books are full to the brim with men and women possessing superhuman strength, metamorphic talents or sensory abilities that allow them to see the dead, fight supernatural creatures and powers, fight battles beyond Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: From thrift store paintings comes pop culture gold
I think it would be fair to say that most of us don’t immediately thinking of heading to our local thrift store – in Australia, they’re known as “op shops” short for “opportunity shops” – to procure some art for our homes. After all, while the art there is Continue Reading
Poster me this! The pun-tastic posters of Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
SNAPSHOT [Night at the Mueum: Secret of the Tomb] starts at the original home, New York City’s American Museum of Natural History, where the vibrant exhibits were discovered after closing time in 2006’s Night at the Museum (2009’s Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian took place in Washington, D.C.). Continue Reading
Pixar FUNX3: Inside Out (new posters + trailers), Toy Story Time Forgot (new trailer) + what the voice actors really look like
SNAPSHOT “From the tepuis of South America to a monster-filled metropolis, Academy Award®-winning director Pete Docter has taken audiences to unique and imaginative places. In 2015, he will take us to the most extraordinary location of all – inside the mind of an 11-year-old named Riley. Growing up Continue Reading
Fresh ink: brilliant new artwork by Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes
It’s a rare day indeed that new artwork surfaces from one of the great masters of the comic artform, Bill Watterson, the man who gave us Calvin and Hobbes, one of the greatest comic strips to ever grace newspaper pages. He has only emerged from his self-imposed retirement on two Continue Reading
Now this is music 41: The Lighthouse and the Whaler, Banoffee, Vanic X K. Flay, Dream Police, A Rainmaker
The year may be screaming to a close – well not so much screaming as lushly and compellingly flowing fast if you take this wonderful collection of five artists and their amazing songs into account – but there is music, so much music to listen to, which truth be Continue Reading