And they all lived happily ever after … It’s supposed to be the perfect ending to every fairytale, the just reward for seeing a righteous quest to its end, smiting the dragon, killing the wicked witch, rescuing the damsel in distress and so on. And yet the good citizens Continue Reading
Jude Law is Dom Hemingway and, um, you’re NOT … simple as that (movie poster)
SNAPSHOT Jude Law plays Dom Hemingway, a larger-than-life safecracker with a loose fuse who is funny, profane, and dangerous. After twelve years in prison, he sets off with his partner in crime Dickie (Richard E. Grant) looking to collect what he’s owed for keeping his mouth shut and protecting Continue Reading
Go nuts with fear: Timur Bekmambetov readies us for a world where Squirrels attack
SNAPSHOT When a young man’s estranged father is killed under suspicious circumstances, he returns home for the first time in years to get to the bottom of the mystery. Hoping to uncover some logical explanation, he instead finds an army of flesh-eating squirrels hellbent on destroying everything in their Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: Dallas Buyers Club
SNAPSHOT Matthew McConaughey stars in “Dallas Buyers Club” as real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. These were the early days of the AIDS epidemic, and the U.S. was divided over how Continue Reading
The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we … AGAIN!
The Wombles are back! Or at least they will be in 2015. The UK’s Channel 5 has announced that it will be broadcasting 52 eleven-minute CGI-created episodes about everyone’s favourite litter-gathering denizens of Wimbledon Common on their Milkshake channel which is targeted at the pre-schooler set. While the production Continue Reading
Now this is music 13: Five amazing Swedish artists you should check out
I have been in love with everything Scandinavian for as long as I can remember. It wasn’t an intentional love affair – although there is so much to love about that part of Europe that you could be forgiven for deliberately seeking out all things Nordic – but rather Continue Reading
A marvelous massing of movie trailers #2 – Enough Said, All is Lost, Inside Llewyn Davis, Instructions Not Included, Zaytoun
So many trailers, so little time to get the popcorn, hold the soda and recline the comfy cinema chair … To save you all the effort of scouring the internet for yourselves, I have assembled five trailers for movies I think will be worth the effort going to see Continue Reading
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – new promo images + a LEGO trailer
SNAPSHOT After successfully crossing over (and under) the Misty Mountains, Thorin and Company must seek aid from a powerful stranger before taking on the dangers of Mirkwood Forest–without their Wizard. If they reach the human settlement of Lake-town it will be time for the hobbit Bilbo Baggins to fulfill Continue Reading
“Warehouse 13”: Review of season 4 finale “The Truth Hurts”
“THIS IS MY HO– USE NOW!” With that thundering statement, Paracelsus (Anthony Head), Warehouse 13‘s latest 500 year old mad scientists uber-baddy, takes control of the world’s weirdest major holding place of strange and dangerous artifacts – OK the world’s only holding major place of strange and dangerous artifacts Continue Reading
Break out the Boom Boom! “Girls” season 3 teaser trailer debuts
Though it may seem like an eon away – one TV viewing month is equal to at least 6-8 actual months in my estimation – the third season of HBO’s Girls, which is set to bow in January 2014 will be here before we know it. In anticipation of Continue Reading