SNAPSHOT Frances (Greta Gerwig) lives in New York, but she doesn’t really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but shes not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren’t really speaking anymore. Frances throws herself headlong into her dreams, Continue Reading
Falling Skies review: “Be Silent and Come Out” (season 3, episode 6)
After last week’s rather lacklustre filler episode, “Search and Recover” aka “Tom and Pope Take a Meaningful Walk in the Woods / The 2nd Mass. Go On a Meaningful Horse Ride” – seriously when you have a finite 10 episode season to play with, who can afford a filler Continue Reading
Now this is music #10: My 5 favourite songs right now – Washed Out, Bat For Lashes/TOY, Midnight Juggernauts, MØ, CHVRCHES
“It All Feels Right” by Washed Out There is a wistful, folkish, almost otherworldly sound to the songs of Georgia (USA) native Ernest Greene who records under the rather world-weary-sounding moniker Washed Out. Rather aptly named “chill wave”, his music is a languorous excursion into lazy summer Continue Reading
Season 4 of “Miranda”? Such fun but a long way off alas
According to the good people at digital spy.com.au, Miranda Hart, start of the hit British sitcom Miranda, and recently voted as the number choice should Steve Moffatt decide the new Doctor Who should be a woman, is one very busy lady. So busy in fact that season 4 of Continue Reading
Movie review: “Only God Forgives”
As a piece of unforgettable modern art, Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives is without peer. Visually striking, it is a starkly lit, arresting mix of midnight blacks, overcast grays and lurid neon-hued red, oranges, yellows and purples, communicating with one glance themes of murder, violence and betrayal. The only Continue Reading
CHOMP! Silliest movie of the year award goes to “Sharknado”
SNAPSHOT When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace. And when the high-speed winds form tornadoes in the desert, nature’s deadliest killer rules water, land, and air. Right, so you’re probably thinking it’s waaaay too early to be awarding the title of Continue Reading
Books for the apocalypse: 3 books I would read while I waited it out
*This post originally appeared on writingbar.com* We are obsessed with the apocalypse right now. If it’s not the four horsemen of the apocalypse getting to gallop their world-ending way though life we know it, its zombies or aliens or a planet stripped bare of resources by the rapacious march of Continue Reading
Queens of the Stone Age and Fred Armisen of “Portlandia” unite!
I am a huge fan of Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live, Portlandia), a gifted comedian who is able to inhabit all sorts of guises with aplomb and bring characters to life with believability and a straight face (hard when they’re as funny as they usually are). One of those characters Continue Reading
“Boxtrolls” new teaser trailer: families come in all shapes and sizes … even rectangles
The Boxtrolls, based on the fantasy novel by Alan Snow, is due onto cinema screens till sometime late next year but it’s already generating lots of buzz for the amazingly creative people behind it – Portland-based Laika Studios, headed by respected stop-motion animation wunderkind Travis Knight. Travis and his talented team Continue Reading
Can you go back? Re-watching “CHiPs” (1977-1983)
SNAPSHOT The show was created by Rick Rosner, and starred Erik Estrada as macho, rambunctious Officer Francis (“Frank”) “Ponch” Poncherello and Larry Wilcox as his strait-laced partner, Officer Jonathan “Jon” Baker. With Ponch the more trouble-prone of the pair, and Jon generally the more level-headed one trying to keep Continue Reading