There are so many movies on the way to the cinema at any one time, and by extension a dizzying array of accompanying trailers that you could be forgiven for wondering if you will have to camp out at the cinema with a Coke drip and an endless candy Continue Reading
Now this is music #9: My 5 favourite songs right now – Grouplove, The High Wire, Laura Welsh, Hot Chip, Icona Pop
Hark! What’s that’s sound? Why it’s five new gloriously good songs that I have come across recently on my travels through the virtual highways and byways of the internet, five songs that have lodged themselves in my earworm and refuse to be dislodged. So I am letting them stay Continue Reading
“Falling Skies” review: ‘At All Costs’ (Episode 4, season 3)
* Spoilers ahead … and a few antsy Volm no doubt ready to shoot you down * It was a case of up, up and away if you were human or Volm in the blistering return-to-form fourth episode of the third season of TNT’s Falling Skies … Or if Continue Reading
Let’s go to “Camp” this summer!
SNAPSHOT Still reeling from her recent divorce, Mackenzie is ready for a fresh start. She is running things on her own for the first time and scrambling to keep the cash-strapped Little Otter from going under. She considers a buyout offer from Roger Shepard (Rodger Corser, Underbelly), the arrogant Continue Reading
TV review: “Under the Dome” premiere episode
I am not quite sure when the realisation hit. It could have been when a cow came off second best in the bovine vs dome battle that gruesomely punctuated the arrival of the transparent, impervious to sound curved shield that descended without much warning, bar some earthquake-like shaking and Continue Reading
Judging a book by its cover #5: “Existence” by David Brin
The object of this series, which I am running in conjunction with my wonderful friend, Elle, who blogs at Inkproductions.org (well-written, entertaining and thoughtful articles on all things writing and blogging-oriented) is to grab a long-neglected unread book off our shelves, speculate on what we think the book’s about based solely Continue Reading
A magical look at the before and after VFX of “The Great Gatsby”
Whatever your views on the merits or otherwise of Baz Luhrmann’s much-ballyhooed adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic, era-defining novel The Great Gatsby – just for the record I am a fan – one thing is for sure – the man knows his way around sumptuous visuals. His lavish Continue Reading
Coming to a TV near you: 5 promising new season dramas #1 – Sleepy Hollow, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Almost Human, The Blacklist, Believe
It’s that time of the year again! The current TV season is coming to a close and as the shows we know and love wrap it up for another year, some of them never to be seen again, a jostling crop of hopefuls is waiting in the wings ready Continue Reading
“Falling Skies” review: ‘Badlands’ (episode 3, season 3)
*** SPOILERS AHEAD (and possibly aliens … ya never know) *** After the big bang, All aliens! All action! All intrigue! Even a creepy baby! look of the first two season 3 episodes, “On Thin Ice” and Collateral Damage”, Falling Skies took a giant narrative chill pill for episode three Continue Reading
Time to slip … or not … “Under the Dome” (new trailer)
The apocalypse is upon us once again and this time there isn’t an alien, zombie or electricity-sucking nanite to be seen. No, this time the enemy is a transparent, practically-invisible impervious dome-shaped membrane that drops without warning, and a great deal of bloodshed and severed limbs, over the small Continue Reading