SNAPSHOT From director Todd Solondz (Welcome to the Dollhouse, Happiness), Wiener-Dog is a dark, starkly funny story of a single dog and the many different people she touches over her short lifetime. Man’s best friend starts out teaching a young boy some contorted life lessons before being taken in Continue Reading
Poster Me This: Bright arty Star Trek Beyond characters posters
SNAPSHOT Star Trek Beyond, the highly-anticipated next installment in the globally popular Star Trek franchise, created by Gene Roddenberry and reintroduced by J.J. Abrams in 2009, returns with director Justin Lin (The Fast and the Furious franchise) at the helm of this epic voyage of the U.S.S. Enterprise and Continue Reading
Movie review: Now You See Me 2
The loss of the novelty effect, that deliriously exciting sense of discovering something new and different, is the Achilles heels of any sequel. And it is a rare sequel indeed that manages to keep this spirit of newness alive while advancing the storyline in ways that honour the original Continue Reading
Dive in! Go swimming with Rick and Morty in Drake mash up video
Rick and Morty own the zeitgeist. OK maybe not all of it but what with creative direction from Mr Community himself Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, an imaginative pallette that knows no bounds, Earthly or otherwise, and insanely quotable quotes and memorable visuals, they at least a fairly significant Continue Reading
Wayward Pines: “Enemy Lines” (S2, E1 review)
Good old humanity. Even when they’re handed a nice bright and shiny chance to save themselves, they manage to soil it, scuff it and break in two, all the while holding a knife to their own throats. The good citizens of Wayward Pines, trapped in a future oasis of Continue Reading
The curse of the blank page: Even movie characters get writer’s block
Writer’s block is the worst. I can say that from bitter experience; many is the time that my muse, whoever or whatever it is, has deserted me and I have been left staring in growing frustration, and near panic – we writers are nothing if not melodramatic at times Continue Reading
Book review: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Love, it is generally thought, can pretty much change everything. Social status, geographical separation, adversarial friends or family, even death cannot compete with love’s ability to sweep all before it in a flood of hope, possibility and rose-petaled wonder. But in Me Before You by JoJo Moyes, soon to be Continue Reading
Sing! New trailer shows animals living their musical dreams
SNAPSHOT Set in a world like ours but entirely inhabited by animals, Sing stars Buster Moon (Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey), a dapper Koala who presides over a once-grand theater that has fallen on hard times. Buster is an eternal optimist—okay, maybe a bit of a scoundrel—who loves his Continue Reading
Movie review: I Smile Back
Try as we might to close the gap, the chasm between what we want from our life and what we actually get can be intimidatingly, and sometimes, distressingly, broad. For Laney Brooks (Sarah Silverman in a nuanced, wholly effecting performance) this gap is now so large that the only Continue Reading
The Simpsons build a couch IKEA-style courtesy of Michal Socha’s couch gag
Ah, IKEA furniture. Looks funky and modern and lots of people own at least one of its pieces (including me) but my lord its a thousand kinds of evil clowns in a car to put together. The devilry of putting together your latest IKEA bookcase or cupboard is something Continue Reading