There is one movie I am looking forward more than any other next year, Muppets Most Wanted – for proof see here, here and yes all the way over here – and I am thrilled to bits that the promotional effort leading up to it is every bit as zany, Continue Reading
All I want for Christmas are my UK TV specials: Call the Midwife, Downton Abbey, Still Open All Hours
One of the time-honoured traditions of Christmas in the UK, and to a lesser extent Australia, is the screening of specially filmed one-off festive episodes of TV series, that may or may not be part of that show’s official canon. Tucked in between a blizzard of repeats – which Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art Christmas: Tattoos inspired by festive flicks
Against all odds, I love National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. That’s not necessarily because it’s a bad movie – it’s actually pretty funny with some deliciously twisted moments that manage to evince some real heart and soul, not an easy feat in what is essentially a larger than life comedic Continue Reading
Forget giant eagles! The Hobbit rides in style on the official airline of Middle Earth
With only days to go, days I tell you!, till the second instalment in Peter Jackson’s latest Middle Earth franchise, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, lands in cinemas, the promotion as you might expect is ramping up considerably And in line with its involvement with the Lord of the Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: Short Term 12
SNAPSHOT Short Term 12 stars Brie Larson (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World) and John Gallagher Jr. (The Newsroom) as Grace and Mason, a young couple working together in a juvenile care home. Grace is tasked with guiding the troubled youngsters, many of whom come from backgrounds where they have Continue Reading
It’s beginning to look like a scary Grimm Christmas – “Twelve Days of Krampus”
SNAPSHOT After a string of delinquent teens go missing, an old Wesen tale of an evil Santa who brings more than just a lump of coal may be the prime suspect. The investigation intensifies as Nick (David Giuntoli) and Hank (Russell Hornsby) take things a little too far. Meanwhile, Continue Reading
Movie review: The Spectacular Now
When you’re standing on the cusp on adulthood, as Sutter Keely (Miles Teller) is in director James Ponsoldt’s emotionally resonant coming of age tale, The Spectacular Now (based on Tim Tharp’s book of the same name), determining if life is going to be an exhilarating ride into the thrilling unknown, Continue Reading
Now this is music #20: Zendaya, Seinabo Sey, If You Say So, Dornik, Lifelike
Yes everything is beginning to look a LOT like Christmas but don’t forget it’s also sounding a lot like Christmas too! Now even if you love carols as much as I do, you’re still going to need a wee break from all the Christmas music so I have pulled Continue Reading
The Blacklist fall finale: Anslo Garrick parts 1 and 2 (S1, E9, 10 review)
It is always a pleasure discovering that your initial partial negative suppositions about a new show were unfounded and that it is so much more than you expected it to be. As we bid a short, Christmas-hiatus farewell to The Blacklist (known here in Australia as James Spader’s The Continue Reading
Zeitgeist Embyronic #2: 5 more possibly amazing shows in the throes of development
Ah the breathless anticipation of what might be! It’s enough to get the pulse racing, the heart a-thumpin’ and your clammy, trembling hands reaching for the remote, eager to watch those much talked about programs now. Ah-ah-ah not so fast my friends! For many of these shows are Continue Reading