Community, NBC’s beleaguered sitcom, much beloved of critics and a hardcore group of fans (including naturally yours truly), is in peril once again. Not that, truth be told, it has ever not been in trouble, spending almost its entire four year run perched precariously atop what is known as Continue Reading
First impressions: “Orphan Black”
Orphan Black is one of those buzz-worthy series that I had heard a great deal of positive talk about but hadn’t had the time to check out properly. You know the drill – so many TV shows, so little time. Having finally, and yes I appreciate I am way Continue Reading
New “World War Z” trailer debuts with “Star Trek Into Darkness”
MOVIE SYNOPSIS The story revolves around United Nations employee Gerry Lane (Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop the zombie pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself. It may have been plagued by rewrites and production delays Continue Reading
Movie review: Star Trek Into Darkness
Star Trek Into Darkness is that glorious rarity among movies. It is a sequel worth seeing. Not only worth seeing but subsuming yourself into as if you too are an inhabitant of the 23th century along with Kirk, Spock and the rest of the iconic Enterprise crew who return Continue Reading
Weekend pop art #3: What lies beneath the pop culture veneer?
Roaming across one of the most interesting, fun sites on the internet recently, Flavorewire.com, I came across a piece by Johnny Otis on the highly imaginative one-of-a-kind work of Brooklyn-based Jason Feeny, whose artistic modus operandi is to see, in the words of Otis, “what lies beneath the shiny veneer Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “The Place Beyond the Pines”
MOVIE SYNOPSIS A motorcycle stunt rider (Ryan Gosling) turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover (Eva Mendes) and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop (Bradley Cooper) navigating a department ruled by a corrupt detective. (source: Continue Reading
Defiance: “The Devil in the Dark” (review)
As you might have gathered from my review of the premiere episode of Defiance, syfy’s first foray into real honest-to-goodness aliens and dystopian future-rich science fiction since 2009, I am mightily impressed with the show. From almost the first frame, the producers of the show made it clear that Continue Reading
Happy Star Wars Day! May the 4th be with you
I love the idea that someone somewhere figured one day that saying “May the 4th” sounds just like – well close enough to make it workable anyway – “May the force …” and thus, unwittingly, gave birth to what would one day become Star Wars Day. Disney, as the Continue Reading
Watch out above! “Falling Skies” season 3 is heading your way (trailer + poster + season 3 preview)
Falling Skies, the series that chronicles the epic battle between the remnants of humanity and aliens who are intent on wiping every last person so they can claim Earth as their own, is set to return to our screen on June 29 and what a season it looks like being, Continue Reading
Now this is music #6: my 5 favourite songs of the week – Blondfire, Sia, Taped Rai, Mr.Little Jeans, London Grammar
Once more to the iPhone, dear friends, once more! Or close up our ears with the sonic dead. OK there’s an extremely good chance Shakespeare didn’t write this exactly and certainly didn’t own an iPhone, but the sentiment remains. It’s time to plug in your playing device of choice, Continue Reading