Pressed for time? Wondering how you will get through that mountainous, teetering pile of movies banking up on your PVR? Despairing of ever discovering how Jim the bike courier (Cillian Murphy) survives the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse in 28 Days Later or, curious whether the path of true Continue Reading
Summer TV lovin’: Gonna have us a blast!
Summer loving had me a blast ohh yeah Summer loving happened so fast I met a network crazy for me Met a TV show cute as can be (Sandy from Grease circa 2014) You can sense it can’t you? After a long cold winter when the nights were long Continue Reading
The last man alive who’s never watched Game of Thrones
Once a show enters the zeitgeist in a massive, watercooler-dominating way, it is well nigh impossible to either escape conversation about it, spoilers all across the internet (although if you’re not watching the show they hardly matter now do they?) or to fake your way through said conversation about Continue Reading
Take another dive (or two) into the whimsical world of The Boxtrolls (new trailers)
SNAPSHOT The Boxtrolls are monsters who live below the streets of Cheesebridge, who crawl out of the sewers at night to steal what the townspeople hold most dear: their children and their cheeses. Or so the townspeople have always believed. In truth, the Boxtrolls are a community of lovable Continue Reading
20 years gone: The new trailer and poster for Dumb and Dumber To
SNAPSHOT Dumb & Dumber To is directed by Peter & Bobby Farrelly (Dumb & Dumber, There’s Something About Mary) and written by Sean Anders & John Morris (Sex Drive, She’s Out of My League), Mike Cerrone (Me, Myself & Irene) and Bennett Yellin (Dumb & Dumber). Jim Carrey and Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Lesa Lehtimäki’s brilliant photo-realistic LEGO homage to Star Wars
If you’re thinking that LEGO is still just for kids, you may want to check out the impressive work of Finnish photographer Lesa Lehtimäki a.k.a. Avanaut on Flickr, which proves that big kids can have just as much fun playing around with the famous Danish export of colourful interlocking Continue Reading
Now this is music: 5 great songs and artists I discovered via The Blacklist
*The post contains some minor spoilers so tread carefully if you haven’t watched the full season just yet* A strange and unusual thing happened to me a few weeks ago. Well, truth be told, not that strange and unusual at all really since it has happened to me a number Continue Reading
Book review: A Fairy Tale by Jonas T. Bengtsson
There is a Jesuits quote, attributed to any number of people, most notably either St. Francis Xavier or St. Ignatius of Loyola, that is often rendered as “Give me a child until he is seven, and I will give you the man”. Echoing the Biblical idea encapsulated in Proverbs Continue Reading
Movie review: The Trip to Italy
There is no doubt that Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are one of the funniest odd couples to ever take a tour of Italy, or anywhere on earth for that matter. The Trip To Italy, Michael Winterbottom’s follow up to the pair’s gastronomic, quip-laden, and philosophically ruminative journey through Continue Reading
Stories in small boxes: Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes) makes a Pearls Before Swine return to the world of cartooning
I really love the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by the amazing Bill Watterson. Really love it. REALLY, really love it. And in the spirit of being mad about an art form that is more than a little bit in danger, in its traditional form at least, thanks to the Continue Reading