SNAPSHOT When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace. And when the high-speed winds form tornadoes in the desert, nature’s deadliest killer rules water, land, and air. Right, so you’re probably thinking it’s waaaay too early to be awarding the title of Continue Reading
Books for the apocalypse: 3 books I would read while I waited it out
*This post originally appeared on writingbar.com* We are obsessed with the apocalypse right now. If it’s not the four horsemen of the apocalypse getting to gallop their world-ending way though life we know it, its zombies or aliens or a planet stripped bare of resources by the rapacious march of Continue Reading
Queens of the Stone Age and Fred Armisen of “Portlandia” unite!
I am a huge fan of Fred Armisen (Saturday Night Live, Portlandia), a gifted comedian who is able to inhabit all sorts of guises with aplomb and bring characters to life with believability and a straight face (hard when they’re as funny as they usually are). One of those characters Continue Reading
“Boxtrolls” new teaser trailer: families come in all shapes and sizes … even rectangles
The Boxtrolls, based on the fantasy novel by Alan Snow, is due onto cinema screens till sometime late next year but it’s already generating lots of buzz for the amazingly creative people behind it – Portland-based Laika Studios, headed by respected stop-motion animation wunderkind Travis Knight. Travis and his talented team Continue Reading
Can you go back? Re-watching “CHiPs” (1977-1983)
SNAPSHOT The show was created by Rick Rosner, and starred Erik Estrada as macho, rambunctious Officer Francis (“Frank”) “Ponch” Poncherello and Larry Wilcox as his strait-laced partner, Officer Jonathan “Jon” Baker. With Ponch the more trouble-prone of the pair, and Jon generally the more level-headed one trying to keep Continue Reading
Sandra Bullock feels “The Heat” in her new role
With the Australian release of The Heat, her new cop buddy movie with Melissa McCarthy just days away (releases 11 July), it seems a good time to feature this wonderful interview between Sandra Bullock and Giles Hardie, Entertainment Editor at smh.com.au. Recorded while she was in Sydney on Tuesday Continue Reading
Movie review: “The Look of Love”
Much like Paul Raymond (Steve Coogan), the man it profiles in a strikingly unimaginative linear fashion, Michael Winterbottom’s The Look of Love is curiously devoid of any real emotional centre, and thus any meaningful connection with its audience. It makes sense I suppose if you acknowledge one of the central Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “The To Do List”
SNAPSHOT Brandy Klark (Aubrey Plaza) spent her entire high school career as an overachiever. While this has left her set for college intellectually, it means that she missed out on a lot of important “experiences” along the way. As a solution, she comes up with a “to-do list” of Continue Reading
Falling Skies review: “Search and Recover” (season 3, episode 5)
“Search and Recover” confirmed everything I have ever thought about camping in the great outdoors. It’s damp and uncomfortable, you’ll probably have to build a fire, the food will be questionable (frogs anyone?), there’s a high likelihood you’ll injure yourself, and you might get suck with fellow campers that’ll Continue Reading
Movie review: “Dans la Maison (In the House)”
There are no real winners in François Ozon’s adaptation Juan Mayorga’s play The Boy in the Last Row, In the House (Dans la Maison). Neither the student Claude Garcia (Ernst Umhauer), a 16 year old boy from the “wrong side of the tracks” desperately trying to acquire the family he doesn’t Continue Reading