SNAPSHOT Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have Continue Reading
Even more Under The Skin (full trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Written by Glazer and Walter Campbell, and scored by Mica Levi of Micachu & The Shapes fame, Under The Skin follows Scarlett Johansson’s unnamed alien. She’s been sent to Earth by an alien corporation to prey on unwary hitchhikers. As the official synopsis puts it: “Part road movie, Continue Reading
Flintstones, meet the Scientifically Accurate Flintstones!
I grew up watching Hanna-Barbera’s The Flintstones, who premiered on US TV on September 30, 1966, and loved, even at a young age, its juxtaposition of modern day concerns with stone age people. It was a clever, insightful sitcom in a cartoon, and while you knew that cavemen didn’t actually Continue Reading
Join the monsters at Pixar’s Party Central!
If the impending wonderment and hilarity of Muppets Most Wanted wasn’t enough, we have the inordinate pleasure, and yes even more hilarity, of a new Pixar short in the form of Party Central, featuring the gang from Monsters University. Originally scheduled to screen before The Good Dinosaur before its Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art: The imaginative subway drawings of October Jones
Have you ever watched a cartoon or TV show or movie and wished, really wished, that the figures would come crashing through the screen and inhabit the comparatively dull real world with you? Granted The Simpsons, Looney Tunes and a whole host of TV show and movie characters have Continue Reading
Valentine’s Day movie review: Are We Officially Dating Yet?/That Awkward Moment
Are We Officially Dating?, the first feature from writer/director Tom Gormican, and otherwise known as That Awkward Moment pretty much everywhere but Australia for some reason (had they already shipped the prints?), is a valiant attempt to remake the romantic comedy in the image of men. Which means that Continue Reading
Now this is music: 5 non-syrupy but heartfelt tunes for Valentine’s Day
Ain’t love grand? And thus by extension, songs about love even grander? Perhaps but do we necessarily want to listen to them all day long? Not necessarily. Even an ardent romantic like myself finds too many love songs, and especially those with enough syrupy, cloying sentimentality to give you Continue Reading
Happy Valentine’s … er … Constantine’s Day #MuppetsMostWanted
But all is not lost! Miss Piggy is as determined to make it a day of love and Kermit-ness as ever in this adorable “Kissy! Kissy!” clip … Post by The Muppets. But wait there’s more! Miss Piggy has also been kind enough to come up with 17 Continue Reading
Forever On the Good Ship Lollipop: Shirley Temple Black (1928 – 2014)
It is always profoundly sad when an icon of your childhood dies. Granted you didn’t know them personally but after being exposed to their work repeatedly in your formative years, and spending so much time with them, you feel as if you know them, as if they were one Continue Reading
The Muppets rock final Late Night With Jimmy Fallon show
If there was any further proof that there isn’t anything The Muppets can’t do, and utterly entertain while doing it, I present to you their appearance on the final Late Night With Jimmy Fallon show. Fresh from an imaginative Superbowl campaign promoting the Toyota Highlander, that made great use Continue Reading