You might think that pop culture characters, with an army of writers eager to craft their every move, would have love covered, their romantic lives are a place of perfect fulfilment (well, eventually after some trials and obstacles are dispensed with). But according to a delightful animation by Leigh Lahav, you would Continue Reading
It’s a case of true love interrupting life in Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck (trailer)
SNAPSHOT Trainwreck is directed by Judd Apatow from a script he co-wrote with comedian Amy Schumer. The film follows a complete basket case (Schumer) trying to rebuild her life with her new boyfriend (Bill Hader) best friend and parent in tow. The cast also includes Brie Larson, Mike Birbigla, Continue Reading
Movie review: Kingsman – The Secret Service
Depending on how you look at it, we live either in a cynical age stripped bare of boundless unquestioning faith in pretty much anything, or one in which everything is gloriously fair game, a postmodern scrambling of all that has gone before in which nothing can be viewed except through Continue Reading
‘Cause I’m happy! Well … HAPPY-ish (teaser trailer)
SNAPSHOT “Coogan stars in the lead role of Thom Payne, a 44-year-old man whose world is thrown into disarray when his 25-year-old “wunderkind” boss arrives, saying things like “digital”, “social” and “viral”. Is he in need of a “rebranding”, or does he just have a “low joy ceiling?” Maybe Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “What Happened and What’s Going On” (S5, E9 review)
* BEWARE OF SPOILERS, DEATH, AND YES, OF COURSE, WALKERS* It is one of the great cliches of death and dying that your life supposedly flashes before your eyes. Having not shuffled off this mortal coil as of yet – unless of course I am going all Ghost on Continue Reading
Waltzing glittery Matilda! Australia to compete in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest
Fetch me a kangaroo in spandex! A coterie of bowls-playing grandmothers making scones. A phalanx of surfers atop waves made from pure glitter. Pyrotechnic displays that recall the burning cane fields of Broadwater, New South Wales. And a key change as big as the Australian Bight! Australia, yes Australia, Continue Reading
“What kind of monster puts artisanal butter in the freezer?”: All the fun of the teaser trailer for Silicon Valley season 2
Hands down one of the best TV show premieres of 2014, and I would be so bold as to say the funniest, was HBO’s Silicon Valley, a by all accounts startlingly authentic depiction of life in America’s hot bed of technology development and dreams, centred on a typical startup, Pied Piper, hoping, Continue Reading
Hello Scarlett Overkill: Sandra Bullock gets her own posse of Minions (trailer + photos)
SNAPSHOT The story of Minions begins at the dawn of time. Starting as single-celled yellow organisms, Minions evolve through the ages, perpetually serving the most despicable of masters. After accidentally killing off so many of them—from T. Rex to Napoleon—the Minions find themselves without a master to serve and Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: What would Disney characters look like in the grim world of The Walking Dead?
We are just days, mere days, away from eight more episodes of season 5 of The Walking Dead, a show dedicated to survival, zombie-killing and philosophical musings on the nature of humanity and whether you can return to the person you were before you did what was necessary to Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see: Like Sunday, Like Rain (post #1500)
SNAPSHOT Surrounded by wealth and living with abundant resources in Manhattan, 12-year-old cello prodigy and all around genius Reggie (Julian Shatkin), lives a solitary, bookish life lacking only frequently absent parents and friends. Estranged from family, having slacker boyfriend troubles, and fired from her waitressing job, sometimes musician 23-year-old Continue Reading