SNAPSHOT The series will introduce Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, the most recent incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in her TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box on the outside. The series will also introduce Bradley Walsh, Continue Reading
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Book review: I’ll Have What She’s Having by Erin Carlson
Romantic comedies are one of those cinematic genres that the cool people of the world love to rain hate and scorn down upon. Possessed, you must assume, of love lives so magnificently perfect and satisfying that Cupid himself looks on with rose-ripped envy, they look disdainfully at films which Continue Reading
Ready to be Insecure all over again? Sure you are … (trailers)
SNAPSHOT Creator Issa Rae (The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl) stars as Issa Dee, who struggles to navigate the tricky professional and personal terrain of Los Angeles along with her best friend Molly (Yvonne Orji). (synopsis via HBO) Good god I love Issa Rae. Specifically, her role in HBO’s Continue Reading
Christmas in July #3: Watched The Flying Nun’s “Wailing in a Winter Wonderland”
One of the great delights of The Flying Nun (1967-1970) was, and shall always be, how wonderfully sweet Sister Bertille (played by Gidget herself, the incomparable Sally Field) is in just about every scene. I know that kind of naively-enthusiastic caring character is not really in vogue anymore; people like Continue Reading
Apocalyptic Christmas? In Extinction, Michael Peña has visions of alien invasion dancing in his head
SNAPSHOT A working class father of the future faces recurring dreams of destruction by an unknown force. When his unwanted nightmares begin to affect his relationship with his family, he soon realizes they may be the key to a horrible reality, as a relentless alien attack begins to destroy Continue Reading
Now this is music francaise: Cléa Vincent, Fishbach, Juliette Armanet, Burning Peacocks, Charlotte Gainsbourg #BastilleDay
Happy French National Day everyone! Known more commonly in English-speaking countries as Bastille Day, it is a celebration that has long had a form place in my heart. A student of French for the entire six years of high school, weekday occurrences of Bastille Day were spent watching French Continue Reading
Forget the Good Place or the bad place! What about The Infinite Place?
Iron Man isn’t afraid of ANYTHING. How do we know this? Well, according to the latest brilliantly-clever, very funny animated video from the talented Leigh Lahav, not even death ruffles his cooler-than-cool feathers. Appearing before Michael from NBC’s sitcom-of-the-moment The Good Place, Iron Man is not the least bit Continue Reading
Book review: The Unlikely Heroics of Sam Holloway by Rhys Thomas
It is tempting to think of a whimsically-inclined title such as The Unlikely Heroics of Sam Holloway as a jaunty, appealingly-idiosyncratic journey through the highs and lows of life with a young Englishman whose unorthodox approach to life and decidedly non-mainstream experiences lead to a glowingly-happy end at which Continue Reading
It’s always a sunny day when Christopher Robin comes to play (new movie trailer)
SNAPSHOT In the heartwarming live-action adventure “Disney’s Christopher Robin,” the young boy who loved embarking on adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood with a band of spirited and lovable stuff animals, has grown up and lost his way. Now it is up to his childhood friends to venture into Continue Reading
Movie review: Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom
There is something inordinately exciting about watching dinosaurs roaming across the screen in front of you. Perhaps it’s the inner five-year-old in all of us that has never the lost the wonder of watching these “terrible lizards” storm, thunder, bellow and swagger with an epic majesty and otherworldliness that Continue Reading