Comedies are, by and large, notoriously hit-and-miss propositions. You are either presented with a witty laugh-out-loud script, ripe with side-clutching comedic possibilities that is rendered mute and barely tolerable by actors who are unable to bring the words to life with sufficient verve or timing, or you have highly Continue Reading
The “Veep” is back in The (White) House for season 2
There is little doubt (unless you are a member of the sceptics society in which case it’s pretty much all you have) that Julia Louis-Dreyfus is one of the most gifted comedians on TV at the moment. Her preternatural gift for delivering just the right inflection or facial expression Continue Reading
Sneak Peek: Jack the Giant Slayer (trailer + poster)
Jack the Giant Slayer, directed by X-men’s Brian Singer, is set to bring the fairytale of Jack and the Beanstalk to the big screen in suitably epic fashion. In keeping with the tendency of modern effects-laden blockbusters to modernise and amplify the original tale, Jack (played by Nicholas Hoult, Continue Reading
Movie review: “The Sex of the Angels” (Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival)
Love, it is often said, is forever. And while that much-quoted truism is taken as a given in director Xavier Villaverde’s film El Sexo de Los Angeles (translated as The Sex of the Angels on the official Mardi Gras program or slightly less literally as Angels of Sex on the trailer), Continue Reading
Pixar re-imagining the original “Star Trek”? Make it so.
It’s a great time to be alive my friends. Not just because of the, you know, “alive” part of which very few negative things can be said (apart from the existence of Reality TV and the continuing prevalence of raw tomato in salads), but, and this is also important, Continue Reading
Sneak peek: ‘The Monster Isolation’ (“The Big Bang Theory”)
In this week’s hilarious episode of The Big Bang Theory – no that isn’t being cocky; it will be and you know it – Sheldon comes ridiculously close to acting like a normal human being when he thanks Penny for her help the night before. But at the last Continue Reading
The joy eclectic: Take 2 episodes of “Fringe” (S5), and add 2 episodes of “Suburgatory” (S2) … and watch
PLUS One of the many joys of the current golden age of television, which may or may not have ended depending on who you listen to – no prizes for guessing where I stand on the issue – is the insanely large variety of shows on offer. Continue Reading
A very moving poster from “Star Trek: Into Darkness”
Whoosh! Movie posters are on the move, quite literally, with Paramount leading the way with a, dare I say, futuristic – a wonky term at the best of times since if something doesn’t happen right now or in the past, it is by definition “futuristic” but I am going Continue Reading
“The Walking Dead”: Episode 10 ‘Home’ (review)
* Spoilers ahead * Kaboom! That deafening sound you just heard was the last of whatever passes for peace in the god forsaken, walker-infested apocalypse that the ragged remnants of humanity call home, shattering it into a million jagged, bloodied pieces. It was not so much that we didn’t Continue Reading
Farewell Richard Briers, a man who lived a very good life indeed
For anyone growing up in the 70s and 80s, with even a passing affinity for British sitcoms, which were by anyone’s reckoning experiencing a golden age of sorts, it was hard to miss the irrepressible presence of Richard Briers. Through series like The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles, Continue Reading