Much as I hate to disparage the dedicated interior design professionals who toil to come up with the office environments in which we spend much our walking hours, the truth is most corporate places of work could do with a little more pep and pizzazz. Or Star Wars. Specifically, Continue Reading
Can you ever outrun your past? Season 2 of The Leftovers asks the big questions (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT What if your life was upended in an instant? What if your spouse or your child disappeared right in front of your eyes? Was it the Rapture or something even more difficult to explain? How would you rebuild your life in the wake of such a devastating event? Continue Reading
Movie review: Maze Runner The Scorch Trials
Given it is a part of a recent cinematic tsunami of Young Adult dystopian films, it won’t surprise you to learn that there are zombies in the Wes Ball-directed Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, the sequel to 2014’s The Maze Runner. Lots and lots of seriously aggrieved, Flare Plague-created, fastmoving, Continue Reading
Moose have teeth too! And every children’s book on dental care wants you to know it
Mooses rule kids’ books on dental health! It’s true – sure there are books about bears, fairies and yes even crocodile’s getting their dental health on, but moose, for reasons I am yet to fathom but naturally wholly embrace without question, are all over books educating kids on how Continue Reading
Yup, there are zombies living among us: iZombie season 2 drops a catchy teaser trailer
SNAPSHOT Olivia “Liv” Moore (Rose McIver) was a rosy-cheeked, disciplined, over-achieving medical resident who had her life path completely mapped out… until the night she attended a party that unexpectedly turned into a zombie feeding frenzy. Now a med student-turned-zombie, she takes a job in the coroner’s office to Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Reborn” (series finale review)
Be prepared! Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT Three scouts and lifelong friends join forces with one badass cocktail waitress to become the world’s most unlikely team of heroes. When their peaceful town is ravaged by a zombie invasion, they’ll fight for the badge of a lifetime and put their scouting skills to the test to Continue Reading
Stranger than Truth: John Oliver’s releasing a book of pretend history … or is he?
“History,” said Attila the Hun, “is written by the wieners.” Or that could be “winners”, or let’s be honest, he may not have said it at all. Regardless of what he did or didn’t he, the fact remains that history, for all its objectively factual elements, is far more Continue Reading
Shepherd’s Crown is a crowning achievement for Terry Pratchett and his Discworld (curated article)
Oh, waily, waily. The Shepherd’s Crown (2015) – by English author Sir Terry Pratchett, featuring his young witch character, Tiffany Aching – was never going to be an easy read for me. I knew and counted Terry among my friends since 2008, and I watched Alzheimer’s slowly and insidiously strip Continue Reading
Hey, who doesn’t want a Crazy Ex-Girlfriend? (poster + promo)
SNAPSHOT Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom) is a successful, driven, and possibly crazy young woman who impulsively gives up everything – her partnership at a prestigious law firm and her upscale apartment in Manhattan – in a desperate attempt to find love and happiness in that exotic hotbed of romance Continue Reading