If you were looking for a quick and easy way to describe director Paul Feig’s latest comedy blockbuster, Spy, and who doesn’t like a pithy tagline, you could do worse than calling it a reverse Get Smart. Embodying much of the spirit of Mel Brooks’ 1960s sitcom satirisation of Continue Reading
“Do some goddamn magic!” Syfy debuts the trailer for The Magicians
SNAPSHOT Based upon Grossman’s books— the first of which was published in 2009 — The Magicians stars Jason Ralph (A Most Violent Year) as Quentin Coldwater, a brilliant grad student who enrolls in Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, a secret upstate New York university specializing in magic. He and Continue Reading
Every legend has a beginning: New Pan movie trailer is a visual delight
SNAPSHOT From director Joe Wright comes “Pan,” a live-action feature presenting a wholly original adventure about the beginnings of the beloved characters created by J.M. Barrie.Peter (Levi Miller) is a mischievous 12-year-old boy with an irrepressible rebellious streak, but in the bleak London orphanage where he has lived his Continue Reading
Are Rick and Morty Rap Gods? In Benjamin Robert’s hands you f**king bet they are!
Now here’s a marriage made in cutting-edge pop culture heaven. Rick and Morty, the gleefully subversive animation sensation birthed in the twisted-in-all-the-best-ways minds of Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, whose second season is due to land in the US summer on Adult Swim, and Eminem, one of rap’s enfant Continue Reading
Songs for all seasons: Watch Peter Dinklage + Coldplay in special Game of Thrones the Musical clip
*THERE ARE GAME OF THRONES SPOILERS AHEAD … BORNE ON SINGING DRAGONS WINGS* What the world needs now is … love, sweet love? No citizens of Westeros, and further abroad, what the world needs RIGHT NOW is Game of Thrones the Musical … or at least one song from Continue Reading
Movie review: Mad Max Fury Road
Humanity is manifestly, irretrievably broken. That much is clear within seconds of the bleak opening of Mad Max: Fury Road when the eponymous hero, staring out into the burnt orange desert surrounds that spread out remorselessly in every direction, acknowledges that the Earth is broken, humanity is broken, and Continue Reading
Simon Pegg will do Absolutely Anything to save the world (trailer + posters)
SNAPSHOT A group of aliens bestow upon a random Earthling (Simon Pegg) the ability to make absolutely anything happen, to see if he uses the power for good. If he uses it for evil, the Earth will be destroyed. (synopsis via Tribute) Monty Python have reunited in a movie! Continue Reading
Outlander: Wentworth Prison (S1, E15 review)
*SPOILERS AND RAW BRUTISH INHUMANITY AND YES ENDURING LOVE INCOMING* There has never been a scintilla of doubt that the producers of Outlander are committed to showing life in the often mercilessly brutish world of eighteenth century Scotland in its all confronting, intensely dehumanising horror. This unwavering commitment to Continue Reading
The road to Eurovision 2015: Grand final – Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK
It’s Eurovision Song Contest time again folks! Let loose the glitter bombs of fabulous music now! So, in the seven weeks leading up to the grand final on Saturday 23 May 2015, I will be profiling the acts and reviewing the songs of 5-6 countries each week, giving my unvarnished, unguarded Continue Reading
They’re all out to get you in USA network’s intriguing new show Mr Robot
SNAPSHOT USA Network presents MR. ROBOT, a psychological thriller that follows Elliot (Rami Malek, The Pacific), a young programmer, who works as a cyber-security engineer by day and a vigilante hacker by night. Elliot finds himself at a crossroads when the mysterious leader (Christian Slater, The Adderall Diaries) of Continue Reading