As I’ve noted on more than one occasion in the past, 2013 is shaping up to be a bumper year for science fiction (sci-fi) fans at the movies. After being treated as the black sheep on the family, who is only occasionally allowed to eat at the big table Continue Reading
Movie review: “la cerise sur le gâteau” (“The Cherry on the Cake”)
Love, they say, is a many-splendoured thing. An admirable, impossibly romantic sentiment for most but not one shared by The Cherry on the Cake (la cerise sue le gâteau), a French romantic comedy that seems to regard love as more of a source of ongoing anxiety and complaint than anything else. Continue Reading
Ooh la la mes amis! Mickey Mouse’s new short Croissant de Triomphe
Mickey Mouse is back in the house my friends and I couldn’t be happier! After spending much of my childhood glued to the Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday nights way back in them thar olden days – otherwise known as the 1970s – and relishing the myriad of Continue Reading
She’s back! ABBA’s Agnetha Fältskog makes a welcome return to the musical spotlight
Nine years is almost an eternity in the ephemeral world of pop music, where popularity one day is often replaced by oblivion the next. And for anyone brave enough to stage their big comeback, fickle attention spans, and the sometimes ferocious world of today’s social media landscape await, examining, Continue Reading
“The Walking Dead”: episode 13: ‘Arrow in the Doorpost’ (review)
You have to admire Andrea’s doggedly optimistic persistence. No really, you do. Even in the face of the Governor’s endlessly duplicitous behaviour, which she has witnessed firsthand but seems powerless to respond to in any meaningful ongoing way, and Rick’s unwillingness to cede an inch of ground in the Continue Reading
Movie review: “Barbara”
Isolation is a harrowing state of being. It is, for most of us, an intolerable plane of existence, a denial of one of our most basic imperatives; that is, to form bonds with others. But for Barbara (Nina Hoss, appearing in her fifth movie for the film’s much revered Continue Reading
The quirky delights and perils of releasing your inner (video) “Goddess”
Release your inner video-blogging Goddess! Go on, you know you want to … Or do you? In the new Australian movie, Goddess, directed by Mark Lamprell and based on the play Sinksongs by Joanna Weinberg, Elspeth Dickens (Laura Michelle Kelly) is fairly certain she lost her goddess a long time Continue Reading
“Audrey”: The agony and ecstasy of waiting for love to arrive
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: Audrey is a very unique and very funny female-driven comedy — like nothing movie going audiences have seen before. Taking place in real-time, the story takes us through a little over an hour and a half of a young woman’s (played by Sybil Temtchine, Ten Benny, Restaurant) day Continue Reading
Royal musical chairs: “Games of Thrones” season 3 (trailer + posters)
Games of Thrones, back for a third season on 31 March (but then you’d worked that out already courtesy of the poster above right? Right), is the ultimate in epic television. Everything about the series, drawn from George R. R. Martin’s massive fantasy series, Songs of Fire and Ice, Continue Reading
The art of being a Muppet: the creative re-imagining of Jim Henson’s beloved creations
It’s an exciting time to be around if you’re a Muppets fan! They have shot back into the zeitgeist with a song and dance and a whimsical trade in knowing cuteness – adorable they may be but worldly-wise and pop culture savvy are they – thanks to the recent Continue Reading