MINIONS SNAPSHOT The story of Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s Minions begins at the dawn of time. Starting as single-celled yellow organisms, Minions evolve through the ages, perpetually serving the most despicable of masters. Continuously unsuccessful at keeping these masters–from T. rex to Napoleon–the Minions find themselves without someone Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Self Help” (S5, E5 review)
* THERE ARE SPOILERS AHEAD … and NOT A LOT OF HOPE * Hope in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, much like the faces, arms, legs and bodies of the undead themselves when hit by a fire truck’s water cannon – something which actually happened in “Self Help”, Continue Reading
Whether you’re Darth Vader or a Stormtrooper, you know it’s All About That Base (Star Wars parody)
Regardless of whether you’re a music obsessive like I am, or a casual radio listener or streamer who has music playing in the background, there’s a way better than average chance that you’ve heard Meghan Trainor’s catchiest-as-all-hell breakout hit “All About That Bass”. The debut single by the Massachusetts-raised Continue Reading
Let’s hear it for season 4 of Girls! (new trailer)
SNAPSHOT Last season left off with Hannah (Lena Dunham) struggling to make her life in New York work both professionally and romantically with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Adam. Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) learned that she was three credits short of graduating and attempted to get Ray back, Marnie (Allison Williams) Continue Reading
Behold the epic final trailer for The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies
SNAPSHOT From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, the third in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies brings to an epic conclusion the adventures of Continue Reading
Book review: The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer
One of the cruellest fates that can befall a person is that of becoming “marooned in time”. That is, to watch helplessly as, one by one, your contemporaries die around you, taking with them all your commonly shared memories, cultural touchstones, and common experiences, leaving you alone to remember Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Olaf from Frozen delightfully re-imagined as Disney Princesses
There’s no doubt about it – Frozen is a big deal. It’s set all kinds of box office records, won a slew of awards and its songs have become so ubiquitous that its hard to believe they weren’t even on anyone’s musical radar a year ago. In the process, Continue Reading
Now this is music #40: Moodoïd, LOUDS, Kyle Woods and Khallee, Ataractic, Kacy Hill
So I wonder who that person was who predicted technology would set us free from day-to-day drudgery and endless stress, allowing us to allow ourselves in that which makes us happy, relaxed and chilled? Clearly they were smoking something at the time, and not the kind of something that Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Slabtown” (S5, E4 review)
* SPOILERS AHEAD … and ROTTERS and THE CREEPIEST CARNIVAL RIDE EVER * Another episode of The Walking Dead, another group of deluded individuals thinking they are are rightly re-forming society in their own image, the last bastions of humanity in a barbarically murderous world (at least that’s what Continue Reading
Movie review: Interstellar
Much like an endangered animal or plant, of which sightings are confirmed but few and far between, coming across a much-hyped tentpole movie which possesses a compulsively-watchable story, exquisitely-well drawn characters, an epic sense of time and place (in this case, literally), richly expressed both visually and thematically, and a solid sense of intelligently-articulated, emotionally-resonant Continue Reading