Roaming across one of the most interesting, fun sites on the internet recently, Flavorewire.com, I came across a piece by Johnny Otis on the highly imaginative one-of-a-kind work of Brooklyn-based Jason Feeny, whose artistic modus operandi is to see, in the words of Otis, “what lies beneath the shiny veneer Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: “The Place Beyond the Pines”
MOVIE SYNOPSIS A motorcycle stunt rider (Ryan Gosling) turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover (Eva Mendes) and their newborn child, a decision that puts him on a collision course with an ambitious rookie cop (Bradley Cooper) navigating a department ruled by a corrupt detective. (source: Continue Reading
Defiance: “The Devil in the Dark” (review)
As you might have gathered from my review of the premiere episode of Defiance, syfy’s first foray into real honest-to-goodness aliens and dystopian future-rich science fiction since 2009, I am mightily impressed with the show. From almost the first frame, the producers of the show made it clear that Continue Reading
Happy Star Wars Day! May the 4th be with you
I love the idea that someone somewhere figured one day that saying “May the 4th” sounds just like – well close enough to make it workable anyway – “May the force …” and thus, unwittingly, gave birth to what would one day become Star Wars Day. Disney, as the Continue Reading
Watch out above! “Falling Skies” season 3 is heading your way (trailer + poster + season 3 preview)
Falling Skies, the series that chronicles the epic battle between the remnants of humanity and aliens who are intent on wiping every last person so they can claim Earth as their own, is set to return to our screen on June 29 and what a season it looks like being, Continue Reading
Now this is music #6: my 5 favourite songs of the week – Blondfire, Sia, Taped Rai, Mr.Little Jeans, London Grammar
Once more to the iPhone, dear friends, once more! Or close up our ears with the sonic dead. OK there’s an extremely good chance Shakespeare didn’t write this exactly and certainly didn’t own an iPhone, but the sentiment remains. It’s time to plug in your playing device of choice, Continue Reading
Ring! Ring! First ad for the ABBA Museum
Now I don’t usually act as the promotional mouthpiece for museums, art galleries, and small stalls selling toy cats made out of used felt and aluminium (delightful though they may be). But in the case of the ABBA Museum, which is being opened in honour of a musical supergroup Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision: week 4 – Latvia, San Marino, F. Y. R. Macedonia, Azerbaijan, Finland, Malta
WHAT IS THE EUROVISION SONG CONTEST? Started way back in 1956 as a way to draw a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
Reverential parodies: a wholly different take on the intros to our favourite TV shows
To be fair these highly imaginative and generally well-executed fan love letters to shows present and past aren’t strictly speaking parodies as much as they are homages to much loved series. But still they are parodies of a kind, since in their reverence for the show they are saluting, Continue Reading
Stop. Go. Stop. GO! “Arrested Development” resumes its glorious dysfunctionality
It’s not long now my familial dysfunction-loving friends! Soon and very soon, Arrested Development, cancelled six years ago by the Fox network at the end of season 3 when the dysfunctional Bluth family finally came apart in spectacularly chaotic fashion, will make its much-welcome way back into our viewing Continue Reading