SNAPSHOT Matthew McConaughey stars in “Dallas Buyers Club” as real-life Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof, whose free-wheeling life was overturned in 1985 when he was diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live. These were the early days of the AIDS epidemic, and the U.S. was divided over how Continue Reading
The Wombles of Wimbledon Common are we … AGAIN!
The Wombles are back! Or at least they will be in 2015. The UK’s Channel 5 has announced that it will be broadcasting 52 eleven-minute CGI-created episodes about everyone’s favourite litter-gathering denizens of Wimbledon Common on their Milkshake channel which is targeted at the pre-schooler set. While the production Continue Reading
Now this is music 13: Five amazing Swedish artists you should check out
I have been in love with everything Scandinavian for as long as I can remember. It wasn’t an intentional love affair – although there is so much to love about that part of Europe that you could be forgiven for deliberately seeking out all things Nordic – but rather Continue Reading
A marvelous massing of movie trailers #2 – Enough Said, All is Lost, Inside Llewyn Davis, Instructions Not Included, Zaytoun
So many trailers, so little time to get the popcorn, hold the soda and recline the comfy cinema chair … To save you all the effort of scouring the internet for yourselves, I have assembled five trailers for movies I think will be worth the effort going to see Continue Reading
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – new promo images + a LEGO trailer
SNAPSHOT After successfully crossing over (and under) the Misty Mountains, Thorin and Company must seek aid from a powerful stranger before taking on the dangers of Mirkwood Forest–without their Wizard. If they reach the human settlement of Lake-town it will be time for the hobbit Bilbo Baggins to fulfill Continue Reading
“Warehouse 13”: Review of season 4 finale “The Truth Hurts”
“THIS IS MY HO– USE NOW!” With that thundering statement, Paracelsus (Anthony Head), Warehouse 13‘s latest 500 year old mad scientists uber-baddy, takes control of the world’s weirdest major holding place of strange and dangerous artifacts – OK the world’s only holding major place of strange and dangerous artifacts Continue Reading
Break out the Boom Boom! “Girls” season 3 teaser trailer debuts
Though it may seem like an eon away – one TV viewing month is equal to at least 6-8 actual months in my estimation – the third season of HBO’s Girls, which is set to bow in January 2014 will be here before we know it. In anticipation of Continue Reading
Book review: “Shift” by Hugh Howey
Mankind is a contrarily unique species. Armed with ferocious intelligence, tenacity, ambition, and the ability to remold the world, for better or worse, we hold both the seeds of our uplifting and our downfall in our often overly confident hands. Peter may build up, but Paul will tear down, Continue Reading
Shhh! Be vewy, vewy qwiet … Neil Patrick Harris has made a silent movie
Is there nothing that Neil Patrick Harris can’t do and do spectacularly well? I say no! My proof? He hosts the Tonys, performs magic like a pro, is a star on How I Met Your Mother, has two of the most adorable children with his partner, David Burtka … Continue Reading
Movie review: “Now You See Me”
Everything appears to be an illusion in Louis Leterrier’s (The Transporter, Clash of the Titans) Now You See Me with magic, or the suggestion of magic, suffusing the whole film. That the art of magic and illusion is the centrepiece of this fast-paced highly enjoyable crime caper is made very clear Continue Reading