There is no doubt about it. Andy Serkis, who has provided the speech and mannerisms for a host of motion-capture characters in movie franchises like The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, and The Planet of the Apes, is an amazingly talented actor. While you very rarely see Continue Reading
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Falling Skies: “The Eye” (S4, E2 review)
* Watch out there are spoilers! And aliens … don’t forget the aliens * After re-imagining, re-booting and all but completely re-tooling itself in the season 4 opener “Ghost in the Machine”, Falling Skies went on in episode 2 “The Eye” with all the gritty, dirty (literally in the Continue Reading
Finally growing up: The feel good life lessons of St. Vincent (trailer)
SNAPSHOT Maggie (McCarthy), a single mother, moves into a new home in Brooklyn with her 12-year old son, Oliver (Lieberher). Forced to work long hours, she has no choice but to leave Oliver in the care of their new neighbor, Vincent (Murray), a retired curmudgeon with a penchant for Continue Reading
Now this is music #32: Alison Wonderland, Low Roar, Seinabo Sey, La Roux, Dream Koala
It’s time to take a turn for the contemplative, the meditative with a collection of songs that recognise that life is not always kind or good to you. In the case of these songs that variously deal with getting through the hard times, surviving the end of a failed Continue Reading
Book review: The Leftovers by Tom Perrotta
Grief is not the uniformly expressed, clean cut, step by step, easily measured process that modern pop psychology has led us to believe. Like any expression of our humanity, it is as individual as the person experiencing it, fleetingly brief for some, painfully lingering for others, its expression finding Continue Reading
Movie review: Frank
Frank, Lenny Abrahamson’s eccentric but pleasingly bleak portrait of life in an indie band, is a stark reminder that just because something looks broken, doesn’t necessarily mean it is. It’s a lesson that it takes aspiring keyboardist and songwriter, Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), who we meet as he’s walking home Continue Reading
Madame Tutli-Putli: A pleasingly unusual companion short film to Snowpiercer
SNAPSHOT Snowpiercer based on the French graphic novel “Le Transperceneige,” is set in a future where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an Ice Age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snow Piercer, a train that travels around the globe Continue Reading
Cool. Cool cool cool – Community renewed for a sixth season!
The dream of #sixseasonsandamovie lives! After sailing far too close to oblivion for any fan’s tastes, thanks to Hulu’s last minute decision not to carry Community as the June 30 deadline approached when all of the cancelled show’s actors were to be released from their contracts, the series, set at Continue Reading
He’s here … and he’s gone! New teaser trailer for Doctor Who season 8
Now THIS is a teaser trailer! It doesn’t so much intrigue, although naturally of course it is because we are insatiably curious creatures – cats have nothing on us, even the time travelling ones – and will ponder and dissect anything we are given about a show we love, Continue Reading
Seeing is believing: Heading Into the Storm
SNAPSHOT In the span of a single day, the town of Silverton is ravaged by an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes. The entire town is at the mercy of the erratic and deadly cyclones, even as storm trackers predict the worst is yet to come. Most people seek shelter, while Continue Reading