Like a threatening crowd of Weeping Angels growing in numbers and proximity, there have been mounting rumours for quite some months now that Matt Smith might be close to calling it quits after four years as the eleventh incarnation of Doctor Who. And it appears that this speculation was Continue Reading
Weekend pop art #5: The haunting Japanese-influenced art of “The Wolverine”
MOVIE SYNOPSIS Based on the celebrated comic book arc, this epic action-adventure takes Wolverine, the most iconic character of the X-Men universe, to modern day Japan. Out of his depth in an unknown world he faces his ultimate nemesis in a life-or-death battle that will leave him forever changed. Continue Reading
Is Dan Harmon on his way back to the warm embrace of his “Community”?
Could Dan Harmon, the creator, creative mastermind and for the first three seasons at least the driving force behind and showrunner of NBC’s bruised-from-being-throw-like-a-piñata-in-a-hurricane around NBC’s less-than-stellar schedule (assuming it even makes it onto it, of course) sitcom Community be on his way back into the quirky embrace of Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “The Numbers Station”
MOVIE SYNOPSIS After his latest mission goes disastrously wrong, veteran CIA black ops agent Emerson Kent (John Cusack, 2012) is given one last chance to prove he still has what it takes to do his job. His new assignment: guarding Katherine (Malin Akerman, Watchmen), a code operator at a Continue Reading
Now this is music #8 – My 5 fave songs right now: Natasha Kmeto, Still Parade, Little Children, Zemmy, Röyksopp
It’s time for more amazing, stirring, captivating music! And this week we have chosen from a range of established artists and some artists just beginning to make their presence felt, and they’re all, naturally enough, iPod-worthy and then some! So slip on the headphones, power up the listening device Continue Reading
Movie review: “The Place Beyond the Pines”
Thwarted expectations lie at the heart of The Place Beyond the Pines, Derek Cianfrance’s almost Shakespearianly-epic tale of two distinctly different men struggling to reconcile two implacably opposed extremes – what they believe life will bring to them and what it actually ends up delivering. Both Ryan Gosling as Continue Reading
“World War Z” goes downunder + new movie poster
SYNOPSIS The film, a loose adaptation of Max Brooks’s bestseller World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, is directed by Marc Forster. Pitt stars as Gerry Lane, a United Nations researcher who must leave his family in the care of the military and go on a Continue Reading
Zoom! “Planes” gets ready to take off with new trailer
SYNOPSIS Dusty (Dane Cook) is a cropdusting plane who dreams of competing in a famous aerial race. The problem? He is hopelessly afraid of heights. With the support of his mentor Skipper (Stacey Keach) and a host of new friends, Dusty sets off to make his dreams come true. Continue Reading
Ellen Degeneres gets together with some of her “Friends”
If you’re a pop culture junkie like me, there is nothing more exciting than the reunion of the cast from one of your favourite TV shows. (OK perhaps there is – if Ryan Reynolds called and asked if he come over and watch said reunion with me, I would Continue Reading
Judging a book by its cover #3: “The Windup Girl” by Paolo Bacigalupi
The object of this series, which I am running in conjunction with my wonderful friend, Elle, who blogs at Inkproductions.org (well-written, entertaining and thoughtful articles on all things writing and blogging-oriented) is to grab a long-neglected unread book off our shelves, speculate on what we think the book’s about Continue Reading