I am duly impressed. Rightly or wrongly, most people have an impression of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), the august body behind the Academy Awards (this year’s event is on Sunday 24 February US time, hosted by Seth MacFarlane) as a staid body that values Continue Reading
Lessons well learnt: Pixar and the art of storytelling
When I am not indulging my expansive and ever growing love of pop culture, I am working at a writers centre in Sydney where one of my tasks is to gather all manner of articles on the art of writing, storytelling and creating beautiful written art and then tweet Continue Reading
Love, true fictional love: My favourite couples from the pages of literature
* This post originally appeared on writingbar.com* Love, it has been said, is a “many-splendoured thing”, and while that sentiment was uttered in the context of the 1955 film and song of the same name, it holds true for literature too. With the exception of dystopian storytelling, where romance Continue Reading
A gorgeous bunch of pixelated roses: my 5 favourite sci-fi/fantasy TV couples
Ain’t love grand? Well for the most part. Granted in real life, it has its moments when real life rather rudely gets in the way, and instead of endless bouquets of roses, and chocolates flown from a small chocolatier in Paris, we get re-heated leftovers and a few M Continue Reading
“The Walking Dead” mid-season return: ‘The Suicide King’ (review)
The Walking Dead returned from its mid-season hiatus with an episode, “The Suicide King”, which was equal parts bang, and unfortunately, for some of the characters and situations, whimper. While Glen Mazzara has now shuffled off his showrunner coil – it seems that he and AMC parted ways over Continue Reading
Sneak peek: Mike and Sully do some learnin’ at “Monsters University” (trailer + poster)
I am a huge Pixar fan. Ever since my all time favourite animated film Toy Story premiered way back in 1995, triggering a renaissance in animation that hasn’t abated since, I have been in love with the gorgeous look, intelligence and humanity of Pixar movies. Though the production house is Continue Reading
Undead and onscreen: “Zombieland” comes to TV
My these zombies are a popular lot aren’t they? They may not be able to fashion together an articulate sentence (or even, it has to be said, a coherent set of gurgles and groans), possess only the most rudimentary of (non) existent personal hygiene and practice the most limited Continue Reading
Movie review: I Give It a Year #StGeorgeOpenAir
I Give It a Year is one very confused movie. Written and directed by the Dan Mazer, who is perhaps best known as Sacha Baron-Cohen’s writing and production partner of long standing, it aims, somewhat unsuccessfully, to be all things to all moviegoers. In part, and this forms the Continue Reading
When Ryan Gosling met Dr Who
So news hot off the movie-making press is that Matt Smith (aka Dr Who) … has been chosen to star in Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut, How To Catch a Monster … which also stars Christina Hendricks (Mad Men) … as a single mother who Continue Reading
Now this is music #1 : my favourite tunes of the moment
In the spirit of all things new and exciting – inspired no doubt by New Year optimism run delightfully amuck – I have decided to re-name my “Sonic Bliss” series as “Now this is music” to better reflect the sense of excitement I experience every time I hear a Continue Reading