by Lucy Mazdon, University of Southampton As many of us are still reeling from the shock news of David Bowie’s death, it is with enormous sadness that we learn of the death of another great British star, Alan Rickman. Like Bowie, Rickman had been suffering from cancer and has died Continue Reading
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I am an extrovert gay man living in Sydney who loves Indian food, current affairs, music, film and reading, caramel anything, and a beautiful guy called Steve who makes every day a delight. I am trying to get two novels in a trilogy ready for e-publication, love my iPhone & iPod, and am secretly Canadian in my soul. Life is fun, exciting and joyful and I aim to make the absolute most of it!
Last year’s movies re-imagined in LEGO? Yes please mr minifig!
I have long maintained, and there are the copious numbers of blog posts to prove it, that everything looks better with a LEGO doppelgänger (likely the product of a childhood given over to much playing with the famous Danish building locks and a constant drip of pop culture goodness Continue Reading
Movie review: Room
It is always an interesting exercise watching the movie adaptation of a just-read book. While literary adaptations are always fraught undertakings with rusted-on readers often holding widely divergent opinions on what should or shouldn’t be included to the producers, the effect is further amplified when the book itself is still Continue Reading
Worst. Heroes. Ever. Suicide Squad’s funky colourful new posters (and trailer)
SNAPSHOT Suicide Squad is a DC Comics movie from Warner Bros, directed by David Ayer (End of Watch, Sabotage, Fury) from a script by David Ayer based on the comic books. Will Smith is Deadshot, Joel Kinnaman is Rick Flagg, Margot Robbie is Harley Quinn, Jared Leto is Joker, Continue Reading
“We are here to party”: ABBA reunite in Stockholm for first time since 2008 (post #2000)
While it might not have been the concert tour or new album that many ABBA fans, rather vainly it should be aided, hope for, the fact that all four members of the legendary Swedish fans were on stage together this week in Stockholm is a cause for celebration. According to Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Love finds new life after death in John Harden’s New
SNAPSHOT NEW is a 16-minute drama about an elderly couple who, after dying in the 21st century, are cryonically preserved. Many decades later they are revived, awakening to find their health and youth totally restored. Together they face the joys and challenges of a second life in the distant Continue Reading
Book review: Room by Emma Donoghue
Room by Emma Donoghue is one of those rare, beautifully-crafted books that draws you into its world completely and absolutely and affects you profoundly in ways you couldn’t have imagined when you first pick it up. It’s hard, nay all but impossible not to be affected by the story Continue Reading
You better run, run run: The Hunters will find you (trailer)
SNAPSHOT From executive producers Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead, The Terminator trilogy) and Natalie Chaidez (12 Monkeys, Heroes), Hunters is inspired by Whitley Strieber’s best-selling novel, Alien Hunter, in which the disappearance of a decorated FBI agent’s wife leads him to a secret government unit assembled to hunt a group of ruthless terrorists – shadowy Continue Reading
First impressions: The Expanse
Depending on where you stand on the sci-fi spectrum, humanity is either bound for a glorious Star Trek-ian future of gleaming cities, equity for all and peace throughout the galaxy, or it’s doomed for a gritty Blade Runner-esque world where cities lies in filthy ruin, climate change has run Continue Reading
What if Inside Out was just the Out bits? Watch and see …
Inside Out is hands down and hearts on our sleeve one of the best movies that Pixar has ever made, and arguably one of the best films of 2015. Much of its appeal and its heartfelt effect on audiences comes from the way it gives us not just the Continue Reading