Selfies are certainly a big part of the zeitgeist these days. If they’re not being declared the Word of the Year for 2013 by the Oxford Dictionary, they’re being sung about in songs by the likes of The Chainsmokers and even playing a play in embroiling President Obama and Continue Reading
Everybody listen to the music, yeah: Review of Deluxe Edition of ABBA’s Waterloo album
It was 1975, and just a year after ABBA had won the Eurovision Song Contest on 6 April 1974 in spectacularly convincing fashion, opening the way for their now legendary international career as pop superstars, I had discovered the music of Björn & Benny, Agnetha and Anni-Frid as they were Continue Reading
Now this is music #27: Figgy, TĀLĀ , Racing Glaciers, Bagheera, Bayou
So life huh? We expect it to be filled with premiere parties, champagne and organic entrees, mingling with stars and staying over for the weekend at Sandra Bullock’s place in Austin, Texas … … but instead we somehow end up, well, doing the ironing on a Saturday night while Continue Reading
Falling in love with Hank and Asha (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT An Indian woman (Mahira Kakkar) studying in Prague and a lonely New Yorker (Andrew Pastides) begin an unconventional correspondence through video letters – two strangers searching for human connection in a hyper-connected world. When their relationship deepens, they must decide whether or not to meet face to face. Winner Continue Reading
Farewell Warehouse 13: “Endless Terror” (S5, E1)
The first episode in any new season of a show you truly love is usually a cause for celebration. But while “Endless Terror”, the premiere episode in the fifth season of Warehouse 13, was welcomed with open arms by this longtime fan and no doubt many others, any joy Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2014: Week 4 – Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway
WHAT IS THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST? Started way back in 1956 as a way to draw a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
Movie review: Muppets Most Wanted
To the eternal joy of anyone with a beating pulse, a love of the warmly chaotic and the irreverently sentimental, Kermit, Miss Piggy and the gang are together again, again (no, the second “again” is not a mistype), singing, dancing and running some bulls (and Gonzo) to a theatre Continue Reading
Some thoughts on HBO’s Looking after binge watching its first season
It can be very odd seeing who you are and the supposed lifestyle you lead portrayed on the big or small screen. Or at least the idea of what your life is like. Quite often, it is nothing like the reality, which is fine since television is a dramatic Continue Reading
Whoosh! Almost the entire history of film in three dazzling minutes
What an impressive achievement! Scott Ewing, a film fanatic of some considerable devotion, has created a brilliant montage of films showcasing the evolution of film from Eadweard Muybridge in 1878, a noted English motion picture pioneer, through to the Lumiere brothers in 1895, George Melies’ 1902 classic A Trip to Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art: My Little Pony gets some pop culture geek chic
On the off chance that you crawled under a very large rock somewhere around 1991 and have yet to emerge, I am here to tell you that the 1980s, home to Duran Duran, Hypercolor T-shirts and Dallas, among many other shoulder pad-accented things, are back in a big way, Continue Reading