In the grand scheme of musical things, the idea that P!nk (aka Alecia Moore) and Dallas Green (City and Colour, Alexisonfire) would ever come together and record an album was not the first thing that sprang to most peoples’ minds. After all, one is a bona fide rock god superstar, bestriding the Continue Reading
Movie review: This is Where I Leave You
Dysfunctional families are to indie dramas what spectacular explosions are to blockbuster action thrillers – the bread and butter of their narrative, an indispensable part of their storytelling DNA. There’s nothing wrong with this, of course, since these dramas, with their focus on slowly-unspooled stories and richly-wrought characters who are Continue Reading
Unleash the Battlesaurs: Toy Story That Time Forgot (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT After a post-Christmas play date, the Toy Story gang finds themselves in uncharted territory when the coolest set of action figures ever turn out to be dangerously delusional. If the gang hopes to return to Bonnie’s room, they’ll have to rely on Trixie the triceratops (Kristen Schaal). (synopsis Continue Reading
Movie review: Fury
War is hell. That much we know to be true from firsthand accounts, documentaries, books and a seeming never-ending succession of movies and TV series, and in a sad sign that little has changed, from current nightly news broadcasts, all of which speak of its nightmarish horrors, its soul-destroying inhumanity, its Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Strangers” (S4, E2 review)
*Hey they’re spoilers ahead … and walkers … and foul, damaged humanity … but you knew that already right?* Well, no surprises for guessing that once again humanity came off second-best in the PR stakes to the walking dead. You have to wonder how that can be don’t you, Continue Reading
The Guardians of the Galaxy have never looked more animated!
Looking back, it seems incredible that anyone could have doubted that The Guardians of the Galaxy would become the movie success of the year, sweeping all before it as it powers towards a likely worldwide $800 million box office haul. But as with anything that steps outside the box of Continue Reading
Thanks for the animation memories: Where are all those ’80s cartoon characters now?
It’s hard for any public figure in the midst of their glory days to imagine a time when they won’t be adored, feted or valued beyond measure, when the spotlight will move on to younger, more beautiful souls and they will be left alone in the dark, railing against the Continue Reading
Movie review: Force Majeure
The brutal shattering of long held perceptions is at the heart of oft Cannes-feted director Ruben Östlund’s latest provocative work, Force majeure, a film which takes a forensic look at the aftereffects of a runaway avalanche on the hitherto picture perfect marriage of workaholic Tomas (Johannes Bah Kuhnke) and his subconsciously Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Poster Posse pays beautiful tribute to Big Hero 6
SNAPSHOT Big Hero 6 is co-directed by Don Hall (Winnie the Pooh) and Chris Williams (Bolt) with a script that Jordan Roberts (3,2,1…Frankie Go Boom) co-wrote with the former. Based on the comic book series of the same name, the film marks the first collaboration between Walt Disney Animation Continue Reading
Who wants to go shopping at Horrorstör? (book trailer)
Aarrggh! Forget zombies and vampires and werewolves and White House-exploding alien invasions. What is truly scary beyond measure is walking through a brightly-lit, sanitised assemble-it-yourself furniture megastore, with all its shinier-than-shiny, squeaky clean evocations of a The Stepford Wives-like lifestyle … and realising you will have to spend countless Continue Reading