MOVIE SYNOPSIS:“On a spectacular future Earth that has evolved beyond recognition, one man’s confrontation with the past will lead him on a journey of redemption and discovery as he battles to save mankind. Jack Harper (Cruise) is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “Prototype”
Directed by Andrew Will, The Prototype is action/sci-fi thriller movie that’s in pre-production, which means of course that we have some ways to go yet before it is dazzling us on the big screen. But, and yes I appreciate this is drawing an exceptionally long bow based on just Continue Reading
Revealed! The amazing character posters for “Iron Man 3”
MOVIE SYNPOSIS: Marvel Studios’ Iron Man 3 pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy’s hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test Continue Reading
Now this is music #2: My favourite 5 songs of the week
holychild – “Best Friends” “Best Friends” from band holychild – which incidentally Google keeps confusing with searches for Jesus and Catholic theology – kicks off with tinkling chimes and echoey floating vocals before moving things up a gear or 300 with pounding guitars and insistent beats overlaid Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “Elysium”
Cinematic visions of mankind’s future usually go one of three ways. Either our successors are trapped in a bleak, dystopian wasteland where a dog-eat-dog mentality prevails and there is little hope of any real improvement (or a working lightbulb and you can forget about a picnic out in the Continue Reading
“The Walking Dead”: episode 11 ‘I Ain’t No Judas’ (review)
No one ever said life in the apocalypse, zombie or otherwise, would be easy. But just how hard it is was on full display this week in “I Ain’t No Judas”. A quieter, more character-interaction oriented episode, it mainly concerned itself with Andrea’s (Laurie Holden) quest to bring some Continue Reading
Is it the end of the world as “Warehouse 13” knows it? (return date + trailer)
When last we left our intrepid artifact-tracking team from Warehouse 13, Peter (Eddie McClintock), Myka (Joanne Kelly), Claudia (Allison Scagliotti) and Steve (Aaron Ashmore) had cornered Artie (Saul Rubinek), who thanks to some astrolabe-induced time-fiddling had turned a less-than-attractive shade of evil (in fairness while successfully trying to resurrect Continue Reading
Movie review: “Gayby” (Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival)
Comedies are, by and large, notoriously hit-and-miss propositions. You are either presented with a witty laugh-out-loud script, ripe with side-clutching comedic possibilities that is rendered mute and barely tolerable by actors who are unable to bring the words to life with sufficient verve or timing, or you have highly Continue Reading
The “Veep” is back in The (White) House for season 2
There is little doubt (unless you are a member of the sceptics society in which case it’s pretty much all you have) that Julia Louis-Dreyfus is one of the most gifted comedians on TV at the moment. Her preternatural gift for delivering just the right inflection or facial expression Continue Reading
Sneak Peek: Jack the Giant Slayer (trailer + poster)
Jack the Giant Slayer, directed by X-men’s Brian Singer, is set to bring the fairytale of Jack and the Beanstalk to the big screen in suitably epic fashion. In keeping with the tendency of modern effects-laden blockbusters to modernise and amplify the original tale, Jack (played by Nicholas Hoult, Continue Reading