* SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A SCHOOL FULL OF APPLE-LESS ZOMBIES … SO MUCH FOR THE TEACHER’S FRUIT BREAK * You have to hand it to creator Robert Kirkman, showrunner Scott Gimple, and the entire The Walking Dead team, in this case writer Angela Kang and director Ernest Dickerson. With Continue Reading
“That’s so gorgant!” Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s first 2015 Golden Globes promo
Yes “gorgant” (pron. gorj-ant) is a word! Especially if the originators of said word, which naturally denotes, class, style and awards show fabulousness are none other than comedy legends, Tina Fey (30 Rock) and Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation), who are back for their third (and sadly, final), no doubt Continue Reading
Movie review: Two Days, One Night (Deux jours, une nuit)
Cinema has had a long and passionate love affair with the bleak, capricious realities of life and the dramatic possibilities contained therein. So too with tenacious protagonists who, though beaten down by their many travails, manage to find a way forward, one that doesn’t simply involve getting by, but Continue Reading
Stephen Byrne’s animated Firefly short: A galaxy of emotions in a scintilla of time
In our modern blockbuster age, we have been led to believe that for anything to truly affect us, it must be bigger, better, epic! So epic in fact that cities, nay continents must fall, all but but a fraction of the characters we care for must die, and the Continue Reading
Marvellous massing of movie trailers: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, Age of Adaline, Cinderella, Strange Magic
While I am enamoured of films that deal with the real world and it’s many imperfect out-workings, my love affair with going to the movies began with films like Star Wars: A New Hope and Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom that offered a me chance to escape into a world Continue Reading
Falling in love with the romantic comedy Amira and Sam
SNAPSHOT To help adjust to coming home from war, former Green Beret, Sam Seneca (Martin Starr), takes a stab at a life-long dream: stand-up comedy. He also lands a high-paying job working for a Wall Street firm, run by his cousin Charlie (Paul Wesley). Amira (Dina Shihabi) fled Iraq Continue Reading
Love [not as Christmas-y or romantic as you think] Actually
I love Christmas. And I love romantic comedies. So yes, I, along with many a fellow romantic-minded person, love Richard Curtis’ festive rom-com Love Actually, required viewing for anyone who wants to feel warm and fuzzy and glowingly positive about life at Christmas, and not just from one too many eggnogs. Continue Reading
Now this is music: Winterbourne (band profile)
The first thing you notice when you hear Central Coast, NSW-based, alternative folk/pop duo Winterbourne play is the sheer, unstoppable energy that seems to roll off them like waves. Its borne of what can only be described as an infectious enthusiasm for the music they make, a passion that Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Crossed” (S5, E7 review)
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