*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND APOCALYPTIC SHOPPING … AND WELL-TRAVELLED WALKERS* As the fractious passengers of the Victor Strand (Colman Domingo)-helmed, good ship Damned If They Do, Damned If They Don’t aka Abigail sailed down the Californian coast, it became patently obvious that there’s not a lot of trust going Continue Reading
Side by side: The first and last frames of classic TV shows
When you commit to watching a TV show, particular a long-running one, you become so enmeshed in its ups and downs, its narrative stepping stones and the growth and change of its characters, that it’s hard to remember what it was all like at the beginning. You grow with Continue Reading
Happy London Eurovision Party! Recap from VIP guest blogger Christoph Fischer
In recent years The Eurovision Song Contest has staged a series of parties at select cities throughout Europe to build up excitement and momentum ahead of the event itself and to extend the Eurovision season a little bit further than one stellar week in May. This year, parties were Continue Reading
You know his name: Welcome back Jason Bourne! (Trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT Matt Damon returns to his most iconic role in “Jason Bourne.” Paul Greengrass, the director of “The Bourne Supremacy” and “The Bourne Ultimatum,” once again joins Damon for the next chapter of Universal Pictures’ Bourne franchise, which finds the CIA’s most lethal former operative drawn out of the Continue Reading
Flagstones! It’s the Flagstones! They’re the modern Stone Age … wait, what what now?!
While some of the more obscure Hanna-Barbera characters such as Squiddly Diddly or Jabberjaw may not very well known among the general public, there’s one family, a “Modern Stone Age Family” in fact, who everyone will instantly recognise – The Flintstones. But The Flintstones didn’t start out life as Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2016: Week 4 – Albania, Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
Looking for Mr. Right? Be careful what you wish for
SNAPSHOT Mr. Right, written by Landis and directed by Paco Cabezas, stars the ever-talented Sam Rockwell and the ever-likeable Anna Kendrick. Kendrick plays the quirky Martha who gets her heart broken after catching her boyfriend cheating on her. She seems to give up on finding a good man until Continue Reading
Eurovision in LEGO? One mega fan has answered your unspoken prayers
I like to think of myself as a fairly dedicated viewer of The Eurovision Song Contest. After all, I review every single song entered for a particular year’s contest, blog about them with as much wit and insight as I can muster and host a party with my boyfriend Continue Reading
Movie review: Midnight Special
If you have ever wondered how completely and to what ends a father could believe in and love his son, then look no further than Mike Nichols’ latest masterpiece, Midnight Special, for the answer. While the film is ostensibly about a remarkable 8 year old boy Alton Meyer (Jaeden Continue Reading
Imagining Zootopia: What it took to make this amazing animated film
SNAPSHOT What did it take to bring the world of ‘Zootopia’ to life? Fusion spent two years with the production team of Disney’s smash hit film. In ‘Imagining Zootopia,’ you will travel with the team to Africa to explore the animals in their natural habitat and find out how Continue Reading