Death has a finality to it, marking the end of our physical existence here on earth. But as the recent news out of J D Salinger’s estate confirms, it is not necessarily the end of releases by an author. Timed to coincide with the release of Shane Salerno’s poorly-reviewed Continue Reading
It’s beginning to look a lot like an indie Christmas: All is Bright movie trailer + poster
SNAPSHOT All Is Bright is the story of two French Canadians who travel to New York City during the holiday season with a get-rich-quick scheme of selling Christmas trees. Dennis (Paul Giamatti) is a no-nonsense, recently released ex-con trying to get his life – and his wife – back. Continue Reading
Concert review: Cyndi Lauper – She’s So Unusual 30th Anniversary Tour
There is something almost magical about seeing a music artist you have loved and admired for thirty years in concert for the first time. Suddenly the transcendentally powerful voice that was only heard through stereo speakers, and the locks of wild hair that only ever made an appearance in Continue Reading
When good walkers go bad: The Walking Dead’s latest teaser trailer
Damn walkers. Not only is someone leaving dead animals at the prison fence to attract them but now they’re letting them in to the prison. Either that or the walkers are becoming far more proficient at picking locks. I am betting on the Governor and his two henchmen, who Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: Ass Backwards (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Kate (June Diane Raphael) and Chloe (Casey Wilson) are two childhood best friends who met when they placed dead last in their hometown beauty pageant. Now they are all grown up and living in New York City, where Chloe works as a “girl in a box” at a Continue Reading
Oh no they didn’t! Hilarious Parks and Recreation bloopers
Parks and Recreation is without a doubt one of the funniest sitcoms of the current age, blessed with sharp, satirical writing, a great sense of time and place that it plays to perfectly, and a cast replete with more talented comedians that you can possibly count. (OK yes you Continue Reading
5 things I love about the upcoming Fall TV season
There’s new TV a-coming! While I often complain about finding the time to watch the great bounty that the current golden age of TV is lavishing upon us, the truth is I love finding and discovering new shows to lose myself in. Will this be the next Fringe? The Continue Reading
Dial up the DHD! Stargate MAY be returning
I am a hopeless romantic. I believe that ideals will win out over pragmatism (all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding). I like to think that the better angels of our nature will always win out. And I expect that long dormant franchises will burst back to life when I Continue Reading
Movie review: Mortal Instruments – City of Bones
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