SNAPSHOT The Boxtrolls are monsters who live below the streets of Cheesebridge, who crawl out of the sewers at night to steal what the townspeople hold most dear: their children and their cheeses. Or so the townspeople have always believed. In truth, the Boxtrolls are a community of lovable Continue Reading
20 years gone: The new trailer and poster for Dumb and Dumber To
SNAPSHOT Dumb & Dumber To is directed by Peter & Bobby Farrelly (Dumb & Dumber, There’s Something About Mary) and written by Sean Anders & John Morris (Sex Drive, She’s Out of My League), Mike Cerrone (Me, Myself & Irene) and Bennett Yellin (Dumb & Dumber). Jim Carrey and Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Lesa Lehtimäki’s brilliant photo-realistic LEGO homage to Star Wars
If you’re thinking that LEGO is still just for kids, you may want to check out the impressive work of Finnish photographer Lesa Lehtimäki a.k.a. Avanaut on Flickr, which proves that big kids can have just as much fun playing around with the famous Danish export of colourful interlocking Continue Reading
Now this is music: 5 great songs and artists I discovered via The Blacklist
*The post contains some minor spoilers so tread carefully if you haven’t watched the full season just yet* A strange and unusual thing happened to me a few weeks ago. Well, truth be told, not that strange and unusual at all really since it has happened to me a number Continue Reading
Book review: A Fairy Tale by Jonas T. Bengtsson
There is a Jesuits quote, attributed to any number of people, most notably either St. Francis Xavier or St. Ignatius of Loyola, that is often rendered as “Give me a child until he is seven, and I will give you the man”. Echoing the Biblical idea encapsulated in Proverbs Continue Reading
Movie review: The Trip to Italy
There is no doubt that Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are one of the funniest odd couples to ever take a tour of Italy, or anywhere on earth for that matter. The Trip To Italy, Michael Winterbottom’s follow up to the pair’s gastronomic, quip-laden, and philosophically ruminative journey through Continue Reading
Stories in small boxes: Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes) makes a Pearls Before Swine return to the world of cartooning
I really love the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes by the amazing Bill Watterson. Really love it. REALLY, really love it. And in the spirit of being mad about an art form that is more than a little bit in danger, in its traditional form at least, thanks to the Continue Reading
Farewell to Warehouse 13: “Cangku Shisi” (S5 E5 review)
Adhering to the always laudable ida that you should end things much as you began them, Warehouse 13 spent its penultimate episode regaling us with one of their classic Big Bad episodes where once again the world hung in the balance and only the combined might, intellect and Pete’s Continue Reading
Someone has to be The Keeper of Lost Causes (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Following a shootout that left his two partners respectively dead and paralyzed, chief detective Carl Mørck (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) is assigned to the newly established Department Q, a department for old, terminated cases. The department consists only of himself and his new assistant Assad (Fares Fares). Although they Continue Reading
Movie review: Edge of Tomorrow
Redemption through repetition. While that vaguely Orwellian sentiment may sound like the sort of thing dreamt up by the propaganda mandarins of Kim Jong Un or the spin doctors of some backwoods cult, it is in fact the thematic heartbeat of Doug Liman’s impressively original time-twisting film Edge of Continue Reading