If you’re a book lover, forget about Paris in the Springtime! Well for the purposes of this post at least. Consider instead London in the Summer and its marvellous Books About Town campaign which has seen the city dotted with “50 unique BookBench sculptures, designed by local artists and Continue Reading
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Falling Skies: “Exodus” (S4, E3 review)
There was a touch of the Steve McQueens about Falling Skies this week, even down to the motorcycle that Tom Mason (Noah Wylie), Distractor of Skitters and Rubber Man Who Can Fall From Great Heights and Live, used once again, this time sans the Ghost headdress, to distract the Continue Reading
Saturday morning cartoons: The Wacky Races (Hanna-Barbera)
I grew up in a far simpler age when television audiences outside the major cities of Australia only had access to two TV channels – one belonging to national publicly-funded broadcaster the ABC, and the other to a commercial company who usually took a mix of programs from the Continue Reading
Now this is music: 1000 Forms of Fear by Sia (review)
In a world of out there, hard-to-miss pop divas, all of then clamouring for attention via outlandish costumes (Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj), faux or actual controversial content in their songs or videos (Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus) or glass-shattering vocals (Mariah Carey, Xtina, Florence and the Machine), Australian Sia Furler Continue Reading
Movie review: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Being both a blockbuster and a sequel should have, by the usual standards of slapdash Hollywood out to make a quick buck, left Dawn of the Planet of the Apes a doubly-cursed, slathering mess of incoherent plotting, poorly-expressed ideas and sub-standard acting. And yet, thanks to a nuanced, well-paced Continue Reading
Movie review: Charlie’s Country
There is an arresting poetic beauty and authenticity to Charlie’s Country, Rolf de Heer’s latest feature film with legendary actor David Gulpilil, that is starkly evident from the silent second to opening shot of the movie in which an introspective Charlie sits in his humpy, lost in mumbling introspection, Continue Reading
Just dance! The Eurovision Song Contest 2014 Remixed by Eurovisionaer
It’s been 2 months since the large ship-shaped stage at Copenhagen’s B&W-Hallerne fell silent and dark, the representatives of each of the 37 competing countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 sang their last (for that week at least) and the enthusiastic audience members went home, counting down the Continue Reading
A whole lotta zombies coming our way: The Walking Dead season 5 preview (videos)
If you are of sound mind and memory, you will recall that Rick (Andrew Lincoln), Daryl (Norman Reedus) and many of the others, save for Carol, Tyreese and baby Judith who were yet to arrive at the “sanctuary” of Terminus, finished up season 4 locked tight inside a rail Continue Reading
Studio Ghibli enchants once again with the haunting When Marnie Was There
SNAPSHOT An atmospheric ghost story with truths to tell about friendship, families and loneliness. Anna lives with foster parents, a misfit with no friends, always on the outside of things. Then she is sent to Norfolk to stay with old Mr and Mrs Pegg, where she runs wild on the Continue Reading
Movie review: Calvary
Films that set out to tackle the big issues of life such as death, revenge, sexual abuse, estrangement, love and salvation to name but a handful, often tread a thankless and perilous path. They either run the risk of coming across as insufferably pretentious, too far above the day Continue Reading