With the vast number of movies dipping their dystopian toes into the grim waters of the post-apocalyptic future, you could be forgiven for wanting to bury all your calendars, switch off any computing device with more memory than a toaster and hightailing it to a remote cabin in the Continue Reading
Want a book from the fabulous Amy Poehler? YES PLEASE!
I am fairly certain … no wait, I know beyond a shadow of a doubt in fact … that Amy Poehler is the funkiest, coolest, funniest, female entertainer on the planet at the moment. * It stands to reason then that if you have achieved that exalted status, and Continue Reading
Here comes the Fall … TV! Send in the Superheroes
If you’re anything like me, and if you’re drinking you’re meds-laced Snapple and faithfully attending weekly therapy sessions you probably aren’t, the headline to this post likely has you humming “Send in the Clowns”. And if it hadn’t inspired that particularly annoying piece of retro ear candy, it has Continue Reading
Once … twice .. thrice more through the all-new renovated Stargate
It’s renovation time at the Stargate my friends! But lest this conjures up images of Daniel Jackson, Colonel O’Neill and Apophis rolling up their sleeves and giving the Ancients-spawned wormhole-creating devices a good old sand back and re-paint, let me assure you that what is really afoot is a Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: When books and nail art brilliantly and beautifully collide
Ask anyone who reads a lot of books what they love about them and they’ll likely tell you it’s the immersive worlds you are subsumed into, the vivid characters, the sense of escape into someone else’s life, the joy/the sadness/the exhilaration of being someone else for a while, the Continue Reading
Movie review: My Sweet Pepper Land
It could be said, in what is admittedly a gross simplification, that the world is divided into two diametrically opposed groups – aspiring idealists who believe they can make a real difference to the world in which they live, and cynical pragmatists who see no hope for society’s redemption, Continue Reading
The eyes have it: The Strain infecting a TV near you soon
SNAPSHOT The Strain is a high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll), the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an Continue Reading
Movie review: Chinese Puzzle (Casse-tête chinois)
For a movie that pivots, philosophically at least, around the fact that life is best lived in its moments of searing drama, a conceit dreamt up by the editor of Xavier (Romain Dupris), a successful novelist billed as the “next Proust”, Chinese Puzzle is largely a bubbly, whimsical New Continue Reading
Who doesn’t want to be part of The Grand Seduction?
SNAPSHOT In “The Grand Seduction,” the only hope for the tiny outport of Tickle Head is a new Petrochemical plant, but in order to qualify for the bid they need to prove they have a resident doctor. When fate sends Dr. Paul Lewis (Kitsch) their way, unemployed fisherman Murray Continue Reading
Zoom into superhero action with Big Hero 6
SNAPSHOT Set in a fictional metropolis called San Fransokyo (a portmanteau of San Francisco and Tokyo), a young prodigy named Hiro Hamada and his self-created robot Baymax uncover a criminal plot and must join a team of inexperienced crime fighters,[8] including Wasabi-No-Ginger, Honey Lemon, GoGo Tomago, and Fred. (synopsis Continue Reading