*SPOILERS AND “WITCHES” AND EYE OF A NEWT AHEAD!* “Looks like I am going to a f**king BBQ!” (Geillis Duncan) It’s been obvious to every viewer of Outlander, and most acutely to its protagonist Claire Randall/Fraser (Caitriona Balfe), since the show began that we are not in Kansas anymore, Toto. Continue Reading
Back on record – the reasons behind vinyl’s unlikely comeback
The world recently celebrated Record Store Day (April 18), a big day in the life of often-beleaguered bricks-and-mortar record stores, and courtesy of Lee Barron, Northumbria University, Newcastle of The Conversation, we get insight into the ever-increasingly re-popularityof vinyl, and what its resurgence means for the future of the music industry Continue Reading
What are we doing here? The do-or-die mysteries of syfy’s Dark Matter (trailer)
SNAPSHOT In Dark Matter, the crew of a derelict spaceship is awakened from stasis with no memories of who they are or how they got on board. Facing threats at every turn, they have to work together to survive a voyage charged with vengeance, betrayal and hidden secrets. The Continue Reading
You thought winter coming was a downer? Try having Jon Snow as a dinner guest (Game of Thrones parody)
We’ve all been to dinner parties like it. What seems at first like it will be a relaxed evening over great food and fine wines with very good friends suddenly becomes weird, awkward and interminably long thanks to the presence of one unexpected, strange and oddly-self-involved guest with the Continue Reading
Nanu nanu indeed: Jamie Costa pays a first class rapid tribute to the great Robin Williams
I think it is safe to say that there will be never be another man as funny and talented as Robin Williams, a uniquely-talented comic force of nature who managed to be zany and intense, jocular and intense throughout a career marked by one stellar performance after another. So Continue Reading
Movie review: While We’re Young
Time flies they say, and with the passing of all those hours, minutes and seconds, goes any sense of spontaneity, curiosity or sparkling joie de vivre. So goes the usual view of things which posits that the young are vital and engaged while those who have reached middle age Continue Reading
Inside Out’s got me feeling Cannes emotions (new clip + posters)
SNAPSHOT From the tepuis of South America to a monster-filled metropolis, Academy Award®-winning director Pete Docter has taken audiences to unique and imaginative places. In 2015, he will take us to the most extraordinary location of all – inside the mind of an 11-year-old named Riley. Growing up can be a bumpy road, and Continue Reading
“Chewie, we’re home”: Star Wars: The Force Awakens debuts teaser trailer #2 … and I’m 12 years old again
As a crashed Imperial Star Destroyer lies wrecked on the sands of the newly-revealed desert planet of Jakku (and the Millenium Falcon, as fast as ever, flies through it with a snazzy new TIE Fighter in hot pursuit) … And a terrifying new villain straight from dark side central casting Continue Reading
Zach Be Nimble: One comedian, a piranha and Sesame Street teach us about being “quick and light”
It goes without saying that if you want to teach a lesson well, it must involve a piranha. It’s an educational truth so self-evident that it’s a wonder every learning institution in the world isn’t equipped with a school of the cannibalistically-feisty Amazonian creatures. Sesame Street, now in its Continue Reading
Outlander: “By the Pricking of My Thumbs” (S1, E10 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD AND ALL MANNER OF FAERIE FOLK* Sir Bedevere: There are ways of telling whether she is a witch. Peasant 1: Are there? Oh well, tell us. Sir Bedevere: Tell me. What do you do with witches? Peasant 1: Burn them. Sir Bedevere: And what do you Continue Reading