MOVIE SYNOPSIS Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World continues the big-screen adventures of Thor, the Mighty Avenger (Chris Hemsworth) as he battles to save Earth and all the Nine Realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universe itself. In the aftermath of Marvel’s Thor and Marvel’s The Avengers, Thor Continue Reading
Movie review: “Sleepwalk With Me”
What is it you really want out of life? Sleepwalk With Me, a 2012 indie comedy written, directed by, and starring standup comedian Mike Birbiglia (it’s based on his one-man off Broadway show), and from the producers of This American Life, attempts to answer that question, obscured as it is Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision: week 3 – Moldova, Ireland, Cyprus, Belgium, Serbia
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
Books from my childhood: E L Konigsburg, author of “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, dies aged 83
* This post originally appeared on writingbar.com Books, like music and certain scents, possess a potent ability to conjure up long-dormant memories. Just how potent was brought home to me when I read that E. L. Konigsburg, author of From the The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil. E. Continue Reading
“The Big Bang Theory”: ‘The Closure Alternative’ – who mourns the cancelled TV series?
We’ve all been there haven’t we? We find a new engaging clever drama, or a side-splitingly funny comedy on TV, watch an episode or two, decide it’s worth committing to on a regular basis only to have it unceremoniously yanked from the schedule without little to no notice because Continue Reading
What’s a country to do when there’s no money for Eurovision?
The Eurovision Song Contest has always occupied a very special place in the entertainment universe. Started in 1956 as a way to bring the nations of Europe into one big happy wind-machine blown, pyrotechnic backlit family, it’s always felt set apart from the normal day to day concerns of Continue Reading
News and views from the amazing world of “Warehouse 13”
Our countdown to Warehouse 13 gracing our archive-chasing-deprived screens once more is down to just one gloriously short week. Tick … tock … tick … tock … you get the idea … Anyway, to tide you over till season 4.5 kicks off – strictly speaking it kind of has Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “R.I.P.D.”
MOVIE SYNOPSIS Directed by Robert Schwentke (Red), R.I.P.D. centers on dead cops who work for the “Rest in Peace Department,” with Ryan Reynolds playing Nick Walker, a newly deceased cop and Jeff Bridges taking on the role of his partner, a seasoned R.I.P.D. veteran. The film also stars Mary Continue Reading
First impressions: “Defiance”
Once more to the apocalypse, dear friends, once more! I am not sure that Shakespeare had an alien-terraformed Earth in mind when he penned almost those words in Henry V all those centuries ago, but they seem apt in the face of another TV series set in a not-too-distant Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “Admission”
MOVIE SYNOPSIS Tina Fey and Paul Rudd star in director Paul Weitz’s comedy about an uptight Princeton admissions officer who encounters a teenage prodigy who may be her long-lost son while recruiting students from an alternative high school. Years ago, Portia Nathan (Fey) quietly placed her newborn son up Continue Reading