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
Mysteriouser and mysteriouser … J. J. Abrams intriguing new short film about ??
It’s Cloverfield all over again! Or Super 8! Or Believe … Frankly it could be for anything and that is the delight and mystery of the intriguing new trailer that has dropped from J. J. Abrams, the past and present master of the clever trail-of-breadcrumbs teaser campaign. While some Continue Reading
A terrific togetherness of TV trailers: Elementary, Once Upon a Time, Supernatural, Dracula, Big School
We’re barely a month away from all sorts of new season TV goodness and with thoughts of evil fairy tale queens, re-imagined 19th century fictional detectives and bright, sunshiney high school singers dancing in my heads, it’s entirely the right time to gather them all together in one big Continue Reading
Movie review: “Francis Ha”
Life, complicated though it is, is one of those things that every adult on the planet is supposed to have totally figured out. Because we’re, you know, adults, and that’s what we’re expected to do. The truth is, all appearances aside, many of us don’t and it’s this subversively Continue Reading
Every zombie child’s favourite bedtime story: “A Brain is for Eating”
Ever wondered what tired zombie parents, spent from a long day wandering through empty apocalyptic landscapes scaring and eating the living, read to their undead offspring come bedtime? (Dead or not, I am betting there’s a good chance that like children everywhere they would be a lively as hell, Continue Reading