Ask any writer and they will tell you that the seemingly mundane act of putting pen to paper, whether literally or figuratively, can often seem quite magical and strangely supernatural. Characters seem to come alive and talk to you, as real as your physical friends and family, demanding to Continue Reading
American Ultra: Meet your favourite new stoned cold killer (posters + trailer)
SNAPSHOT American Ultra is a fast-paced action comedy about Mike (Jesse Eisenberg), a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe (Kristen Stewart), is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of Continue Reading
Movie review: Aloha
Imagine if you will that you suddenly found yourself desperately short of time, required by some inexplicable deadline to watch all the films of Cameron Crowe’s oft-charming, many times insightful cinematic output and report on it in the shortest time possible. What would you do? What would you do … Would Continue Reading
Now this is music 50: Hollow Sunshine, Róisín Murphy, Yale, Villette, Maya Vik
I love a balance between music that soothes the soul and encourages the heart and mind to ponder the deeper parts of the human condition. There is the sense that you’re immersed in a world far removed from the day to day grunge of commuting and Excel spreadsheets, Continue Reading
Movie review: Tomorrowland
Keeping your childlike sense of wonder and boundless optimism into adulthood can be a tall order, especially when, like Frank Walker (George Clooney), you have good reason to discard it favour of well-worn cynicism and paranoid distrust. But as the Brad Bird-directed Tomorrowland reminds us over and over in Continue Reading
“What fresh hell is this?”: The hilariously revengeful sorority whodunnit, Scream Queens
SNAPSHOT Wallace University is rocked by a string of murders. Kappa House, the most sought-after sorority for pledges, is ruled with an iron fist (in a pink glove) by its Queen Bitch, CHANEL OBERLIN (Emma Roberts, American Horror Story: Freak Show, Scream 4). But when anti-Kappa DEAN MUNSCH (Jamie Lee Continue Reading
Who wouldn’t want to stay in The Grand Overlook Hotel? (The Shining + Grand Budapest Hotel mash-up)
Who wouldn’t want to stay in The Grand Overlook Hotel indeed? Well quite possibly everyone really, particularly if a quite mad, pre-frozen to death in the maze Jack Torrance was bashing his way into your room with an axe while screaming “Here’s Johnny!” But what if that same hotel also Continue Reading
You are what you eat: Let Cooties infect you with an hilarious take on the zombie apocalypse
SNAPSHOT A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley band of misfit teachers in the fight of their lives. Cooties is co-directed by Jonathan Milott & Cary Murnion, making their feature directing Continue Reading
And now that the glitter has settled … Eurovision 2015 wrap-up
And the winner is … SWEDEN! After what can only be described as one of the most tense voting sessions of any Eurovision Song Contest I’ve ever witnessed – at one point, first place was an effective three way tie between Russia, Italy and Sweden, with Russia edging ever Continue Reading
“This is the time for overkill”: Falling Skies goes all out in its new season 5 trailer
If Earth wasn’t already overcrowded, what with humanity, the “fishhead” Espheni and the Volm all duking it out for control of our pretty blue planet (or what’s left of it anyway), then it’s about to resemble a crowded commuter train at peak hour when a brand new “beautiful” race, the Continue Reading