SNAPSHOT David Burke (Sudeikis) is a small-time pot dealer whose clientele includes chefs and soccer moms, but no kids—after all, he has his scruples. So what could go wrong? Plenty. Preferring to keep a low profile for obvious reasons, he learns the hard way that no good deed goes Continue Reading
Rip’d from the pages of my childhood: Agaton Sax by Nils-Olof Franzén
The Agaton Sax series by Nils-Olof Franzén was one of the major literary touchstones of my childhood. Yet another Scandinavian author who reeled me in hook, line and quirky sinker, Franzén crafted a protagonist in the short, round Swedish detective I grew to love, who was intelligent, resourceful and just quirky Continue Reading
Movie review: “World War Z”
On your marks … Get set … RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! That may sound like a flippant way to commence a review of one of the most terrifyingly-realistic, taut zombo-apocalyptic thrillers I have ever seen, but it is essentially the imperative that drives this relentlessly full speed ahead heart-constantly-in-mouth Continue Reading
Prance around with John Mayer’s clip for new single “Paper Doll”
I don’t usually devote an entire post to just one music clip but as soon as I saw the video for John Mayer’s new single “Paper Doll” – which some sites such as Spin are speculating could be his response to two songs by ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift’s songs “22” Continue Reading
Watch out for flying carrots! Disney’s hilarious teaser trailer for “Frozen”
SNAPSHOT Fearless optimist Anna (voice of Kristen Bell ) teams up with rugged mountain man Kristoff (voice of Jonathan Groff ) and his loyal reindeer Sven in an epic journey, encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf in a race to find Anna’s sister Elsa Continue Reading
It’s better up there … new thrilling extended “Elysium” trailer hits orbit
SNAPSHOT In the year 2159 two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth. Secretary Delacourt (Jodie Foster), a hard line government official, will stop at nothing to enforce anti-immigration Continue Reading
On your marks … Brad Pitt races from the zombies in new clip from “World War Z”
SNAPSHOT “The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself. Mireille Enos plays Gerry’s wife Karen Lane; Daniella Kertesz is his comrade Continue Reading
Music review: “Ice on the Dune” – Empire of the Sun
Oh the glorious sounds of shiny, happy, synth-washed musical excess. Sounding like the aural equivalent of a deep dive into a candy shop full of bright stripy candy canes, sugar0dusted jubes, and luminously colourful boiled lollies, Empire of the Sun’s Ice on the Dune summons the kind of joyful Continue Reading
TV review: Season 3 premiere of “Falling Skies” – ‘On Thin Ice’/’Collateral Damage’
* Spoilers ahead * “That’s President Tom Mason to you young man!” To be fear that is probably the last thing you will ever hear a very self-effacing Tom Mason (Noah Wylie) ever say, but the fact remains that in the seven, highly eventful months since last we saw Continue Reading
Zoom away with the “Man of Steel”
I will be honest. I have never been a massive fan of Superman. To be fair, I have not exactly been a card-carrying flag-waving (should that be cape-waving?) member of the Superhero Fanclub. As a child I read British comics such as Cheeky, Buster, and Whizzer and Chips instead Continue Reading