Release your inner video-blogging Goddess! Go on, you know you want to … Or do you? In the new Australian movie, Goddess, directed by Mark Lamprell and based on the play Sinksongs by Joanna Weinberg, Elspeth Dickens (Laura Michelle Kelly) is fairly certain she lost her goddess a long time Continue Reading
“Audrey”: The agony and ecstasy of waiting for love to arrive
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Audrey is a very unique and very funny female-driven comedy — like nothing movie going audiences have seen before. Taking place in real-time, the story takes us through a little over an hour and a half of a young woman’s (played by Sybil Temtchine, Ten Benny, Restaurant) day Continue Reading
Royal musical chairs: “Games of Thrones” season 3 (trailer + posters)
Games of Thrones, back for a third season on 31 March (but then you’d worked that out already courtesy of the poster above right? Right), is the ultimate in epic television. Everything about the series, drawn from George R. R. Martin’s massive fantasy series, Songs of Fire and Ice, Continue Reading
The art of being a Muppet: the creative re-imagining of Jim Henson’s beloved creations
It’s an exciting time to be around if you’re a Muppets fan! They have shot back into the zeitgeist with a song and dance and a whimsical trade in knowing cuteness – adorable they may be but worldly-wise and pop culture savvy are they – thanks to the recent Continue Reading
“Community” and Puppet Therapy 101
They’ve been rendered as claymation models, cartoon characters and inhabited any number of pop culture parody guises and now everyone’s favourite study group will find themselves assuming puppet form! Well using them at the Dean’s behest to work out some issues they have after a fraught weekend in the Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “I’m So Excited!” (a film by Pedro Almodovar)
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: A technical failure has endangered the lives of the people on board Peninsula Flight 2549. The pilots are striving, along with their colleagues in the Control Center, to find a solution. The flight attendants and the chief steward are atypical, baroque characters who, in the face of danger, Continue Reading
FOX wishes happy early renewals to “New Girl”, “The Mindy Project” and more!
In news sure to gladden the heart of any sitcom-loving fan out there (or hearts if you’re Time Lord, which is probably unlikely), Fox has leapt in early and announced the renewal of New Girl (season 3) which remains #1 with women 18-34, The Mindy Project (season 2) which Continue Reading
“The Walking Dead”: episode 12 ‘Clear’ (review)
Road trip! It sounds like fun when you say it like that right? All fast drives in the countryside, music on, top down, not a care in the world as you speed to your destination. Ah yes but that was then … and this is the apocalyptic now and Continue Reading
Is there a “Dr Who” in the house? (Season 7 mid-season poster + teaser)
Dr Who returns on March 30 beset by old foes (Cybermen and the first appearance in the modern series of the Ice Warriors), new ones lurking in the WiFi (the Spoonheads) and a new/old/who is she exactly companion, Clara Oswald (who has also appeared as Oswin Oswald and Clara Continue Reading
Movie review: “Side Effects”
Gazing upon its slick, elegantly-constructed surface, Side Effects looks every bit the taut psychological thriller it sells itself to be. And for the most part the substance of the movie, which is the final directorial effort of Steven Soderbergh if you take his recent oft-stated declarations that he is done Continue Reading