It becomes clear within about five minutes of the opening credits why The Sessions, written and directed by Ben Lewin, captured both the Audience Award (U.S. Dramatic) and a U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Prize for Ensemble Acting at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The moment we hear the first witty, self-deprecating Continue Reading
Halloween Checkin 2: Boo! “New Girl” embraces Halloween with gusto
*Disclaimer: Yes, yes I know Halloween was last week but this episode only just aired in Australia and being a sucker for costumes and well, New Girl, I had to review this* Poor sweet Jess! What an episode she had. Dressed up as zombie – which actually is kinda Continue Reading
Sonic Bliss #15: My favourite songs of the week
Another week … and yes more music. So much wonderful music in fact that if your ears were boats (and pre-cosmetic surgery, it’s possible they are) they would be almost sinking in the water, loaded up to the gunwhales with melodies. But rather than sink the good ship Sonic Continue Reading
Movie review: “The Intouchables”
French cinema has never been afraid to cast aside earnest political correctness in favour of telling a raw and unvarnished story, a tradition largely maintained with worldwide hit, The Intouchables (which has taken almost a year to reach Australia for some reason). I say largely because while this comedy-drama, directed Continue Reading
The Muppets return: news on “Muppets 2”
If you’re a devoted Muppets fan like me – I have been since The Muppet Show graced TV screens way back when – you will have been delighted by The Muppet Movie which came out last year and re-introduced Jim Henson’s cheeky loveable creations to a whole new generation of Continue Reading
Air NZ’s Middle Earth-inspired safety video
There is nothing so wonderful as when two of your favourite things in the world – no I am not talking about white chocolate and caramel although their culinary marriage is truly blessed by the gods and I can totally see how your mind went there first; mine always Continue Reading
Movie review: “Robot & Frank”
Robot & Frank is the hopeful, shiny yin to the apocalyptic yang of the Terminator franchise. Set in a near future where the beneficial use of robots is commonplace in almost sphere of life, it tells the story of Frank, a retired cat burglar in strident denial of his Continue Reading
The rise of Darth Goofy: Disney snaps up “Star Wars”
In news that caused equal amounts of consternation, fear and cautious delight among the Dartharati, Mickey Mouse announced yesterday that he would be entering into an arranged marriage with Princess Leia, and even producing new offspring come 2015. Or something to that effect. In a rather more prosaic take Continue Reading
Halloween check in: “Big Bang Theory”
Yes it’s Halloween folks and while I haven’t seen any spectres a-haunting, or witches a-cackling, or even a stray zombie a-shuffling, I did get the chance to watch The Big Bang Theory‘s marking of this spooky festival, “The Holographic Excitation”. All the cast members got a chance to strut their Continue Reading
Check in: “The Walking Dead” / “The New Normal”
It might seem odd, even for an ecumenical pop culture-obsessed blogger like myself, to do a joint review of two completely disparate shows. But with both of these wildly different shows reaching the third episodes of their current seasons (for the The Walking Dead, it’s third and for The New Continue Reading