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
How deep (throated) is your love? The trailer for “Lovelace” debuts
SNAPSHOT The life of one of the most infamous women in early ’70s America gets a dramatization in this offbeat period biopic from co-directors Jeffrey Friedman and Robert Epstein. In the Florida suburbs, circa 1970, Linda Boreman (Amanda Seyfried) is an ordinary and unremarkable young woman who moved back Continue Reading
A long time ago in a play far, far away: William Shakespeare’s “Star Wars”
Hark what tome through yonder rarefied window breaks? Why it’s William Shakespeare’s Star Wars, proof that there if the Bard of Avon had been alive in the 1970s that it would have been he and George Lucas bringing the adventures of Luke, Leia and Han, C3PIO and R2D2 to Continue Reading
The science of being a Muppet
Have you ever wondered what The Muppets would look like as a periodic table that groups all manner of Jim Henson’s much loved creations together? No? Well neither had I. But thank the gods of insanely original imagination that artist Mike Boon (aka Mike BaBoon) had, and did something Continue Reading
3 amazing books coming to a cinema near you* (*popcorn not included) #1
* This post first appeared on writingbar.com.au * It’s the age-old question. Well, a hundred years old at least. Which is better – the book or the movie? (You may take the lid off the can of worms now!) Much like the chicken vs. egg conundrum, this is a Continue Reading
Coming to a TV near you: 5 more promising new season dramas #2 – “Once Upon a Time in Wonderland”, “Gang Related”, “Rake”, “Tomorrow People”, “Intelligence”
It’s that time of the year again! Last year’s TV season is dead and buried, but not of course, forgotten, and a jostling crop of hopefuls is waiting in the wings ready to take their place. The shows were revealed a couple of months back during what is known Continue Reading
My 5 favourite modern TV theme tunes
The untimely, enormously sad death of James Gandolfini a couple of weeks ago while on holiday in Italy, prompted me, by way of a tribute, to repeatedly play “Woke Up This Morning” by the Alabama 3, the devastatingly evocative, haunting theme song to the show that brought him fame Continue Reading
The greatest movie ever assembled: “The Lego Movie” teaser trailer
SNAPSHOT The 3D animated adventure tells the story of Emmet, an ordinary, rules-following, perfectly average LEGO minifigure who is mistakenly identified as the most extraordinary person and the key to saving the world. He is drafted into a fellowship of strangers on an epic quest to stop an evil Continue Reading
Answer the door! ABBA to release deluxe edition of “Ring Ring”
Happy news today! After wondering if Universal would ever get around to releasing a deluxe edition of ABBA’s debut album, Ring Ring, along comes news via the official ABBA website, abbasite.com, that just a version will be released on October 14 this year. It’s 40 years since the album Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “Drinking Buddies”
SNAPSHOT Kate (Olivia Wilde) and Luke (Jake Johnson) work together at a craft brewery. They have one of those friendships that feels like it could be something more. But Kate is with Chris (Ron Livingston), and Luke is with Jill (Anna Kendrick). And Jill wants to know if Luke Continue Reading