This is the third in a series of interviews with the (re)Visions: Alice that I published on a now sadly defunct writing site back in 2012. I hope you enjoy discovering more about the authors behind these remarkably imaginative re-imagined tales. The publication of Hilary Thomas’s evocative novelette “Knave” Continue Reading
Yes, Zach, there is Life After Beth …
SNAPSHOT Zach (Dane DeHaan) is devastated by the unexpected death of his girlfriend, Beth (Aubrey Plaza). But when she miraculously comes back to life, Zach takes full advantage of the opportunity to share and experience all the things he regretted not doing with her before. However, the newly returned Continue Reading
Dan Wagstaff has it covered: The art of books on books
I know the anonymous sages have told us time and again that we should never judge a book by its cover. And while there is a certain truth to this well-invoked adage, it is also true that that is how many people, myself included, buy their books. It’s not, Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: What if your favourite Disney princesses ended up in Orange is the New Black?
Once again the highly imaginative TV gods have smiled upon us. This time, it comes courtesy of designer Maria Bayley from Barbados, who entered and won a DesignCrowd contest which asked contestants to replace the inmates of Litchfield with famous women, and who chose to replace Piper and co. Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Mind Wars” (S4, E5 review)
*Watch out! There are Mechs, Beamers, Skitters … and spoilers this way!* Never was an episode more aptly named. If it wasn’t Tom (Noah Wylie) trying to talk his way out of temporary captivity at the hands of collaborationist brothers Nick (Gil Bellows) and Coop (Aaron Douglas) or Anne Continue Reading
Poster me this: Toy Story That Time Forgot, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
I, along with a great many people, never seem to be able to make it, for a whole host of reasons, to the greatest of all pop culture nirvanas, San Diego Comic-Con (SDCC), which by the time this post goes live, will be in full, crowded, technicolour swing. But absence from Continue Reading
Now this is music: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes soundtrack
The prognosis is damn near unanimous, even if the degrees of effusive praise may understandably vary – Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is one of the best movies of the year, and certainly the best blockbuster to emerge thus far in a year of lacklustre contemporaries (Transformers: Continue Reading
Movie review: Snowpiercer
It is a tale, sadly enough, as old as time. The rich and the powerful, hoarders of resources and advantage, reckless, hedonistic spenders of time and life span, lording it over the poor, the downtrodden and the dispossessed who must eke out a living on the decayed breadcrumbs that Continue Reading
Pixar’s Lava: The warm glow of volcanic love
SNAPSHOT Lava will tell the story of a curmudgeonly volcano, Uku, and his hot top love interest across the sea, the mountain Lele. (synopsis via Huffington Post) Who doesn’t want someone to “lava”? We all do right, even volcano islands who they might be situated out in the middle Continue Reading
Everyone is already dead: Twelve Monkeys TV series debuts its first trailer
Way back in 1995, an intriguing sci-fi film y the name of Twelve Monkeys, starring Bruce Willis in prime badass mode, dropped into cinemas, one of the first of a wave of apocalyptically-disposed storytelling that twenty years hence has become a veritable flood. In this particular vision of the Continue Reading