The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, based on the novel by Cassandra Clare, is an epic film. Styled to within an inch of its life, its loaded to the brim with kickass leather-clad good guys, and assortment of demons, vampires and werewolves of varying allegiances – no zombies surprisingly Continue Reading
I got Scarlett Johansson’s new movie Under the Skin
By most accounts, Jonathan Glazer’s latest film, which attracted equal parts cheers and jeers at its world premiere overnight at the Venice Film Festival, is an unorthodox creature. Featuring little in the way of a standard narrative, and apparently even less dialogue, it relies on evocative atmosphere, and starkly Continue Reading
Please … help … me: The Walking Dead’s creepy new season 4 teaser trailer
OK this is seriously eerie. Walking down an empty hallway, convinced you hear footsteps and voices even though no one is there, CREEPY. I am not surprised that Rock, who you would think would be inured to anything unnerving by now, turns around to listen to a voice that Continue Reading
Eurovision update: what’s happening in its poptastic world?
It’s been almost four months since the last of the pyrotechnics fizzled to half-hearted sparks, and the spandex was packed away for another year so it seems like the perfect time to find out what’s happening in Eurovision’s bright and shiny glitter-spangled world. After all, it’s a scant nine Continue Reading
Judging a book by its cover #7: “The Sparrow” by Maria Doria Russell
WHAT I THINK IT’S ABOUT In the first two decades of the 21st century, genetic research surged ahead, unlocking the genomes of countless living creatures including man himself, and of course, the sparrow. Drunk with the power of limitless knowledge, and their newly-acquired ability to play “God”, scientists began Continue Reading
Happy Labor Dean from @NBCCommunity!
No sign of an air date yet for the unexpected if shortened fifth season of NBC’s now all-Dan Harmon, all the time Community, which commenced filming on August 19, and which will only feature Danny Glover’s character Troy Barnes, one half of the iconic Troy and Abed (Danny Pudi) Continue Reading
Poster me this! New promo art for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Thor: The Dark World, Homeland (season 3), Gravity, All Is Lost
It would abundantly obvious by now that I am a man in love with movie posters (as well as my partner, caramel cheesecakes and Vancouver Canada, none of which are germane to the topic at hand right now alas). And it’s easy to understand why this colourful, often imaginative Continue Reading
Once Upon a Time … there was a season 3 trailer of the fairytale mashup show
And they all lived happily ever after … It’s supposed to be the perfect ending to every fairytale, the just reward for seeing a righteous quest to its end, smiting the dragon, killing the wicked witch, rescuing the damsel in distress and so on. And yet the good citizens Continue Reading
Jude Law is Dom Hemingway and, um, you’re NOT … simple as that (movie poster)
SNAPSHOT Jude Law plays Dom Hemingway, a larger-than-life safecracker with a loose fuse who is funny, profane, and dangerous. After twelve years in prison, he sets off with his partner in crime Dickie (Richard E. Grant) looking to collect what he’s owed for keeping his mouth shut and protecting Continue Reading
Go nuts with fear: Timur Bekmambetov readies us for a world where Squirrels attack
SNAPSHOT When a young man’s estranged father is killed under suspicious circumstances, he returns home for the first time in years to get to the bottom of the mystery. Hoping to uncover some logical explanation, he instead finds an army of flesh-eating squirrels hellbent on destroying everything in their Continue Reading