One of the best ways of working out how big a movie or TV release is these days is seeing if it receives the LEGO treatment and in what kind of timeframe. The quicker the LEGO-isation, and yes that is now a word, the higher your pop culture phenomenon Continue Reading
If only: An art exhibition that showcases posters for movie sequels we wish had been made
Have you noticed something when it comes to the sorts of movies Hollywood produces? They never seem to make sequels of the movies we really want to immerse ourselves in again and churn ones for movies better left alone – Speed 2 anyone? Nah I didn’t think so. Thankfully, Continue Reading
Now this is music #42: POOM, Ghost Loft, MyLyricalMind, Pomplamoose, Misun
The theme of the latest collection of musical riches to grace this series is diversity, reflected not only in the spread of sounds offered by the musicians featured but also in their willingness to play around with said sounds, to push and squeeze and cajole into all manner of sonically-pleasiong Continue Reading
Movie review: Nightcrawler
When you first see Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal), the sociopathic protagonist of Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler (Gilroy both wrote and directed the film), you are struck by his haggard, gaunt, sunken-eyes appearance, as if his body has long fled, leaving behind only a husk of a man. And in many ways Continue Reading
I am STILL Groot: The breakout star of Guardians of the Galaxy
SNAPSHOT Guardians of the Galaxy is directed by James Gunn (Slither, Super). Brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade the ever-persistent Ronan, Quill is Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “Coda” (S5, E8 mid-season finale review)
* SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A SCHOOL FULL OF APPLE-LESS ZOMBIES … SO MUCH FOR THE TEACHER’S FRUIT BREAK * You have to hand it to creator Robert Kirkman, showrunner Scott Gimple, and the entire The Walking Dead team, in this case writer Angela Kang and director Ernest Dickerson. With Continue Reading
“That’s so gorgant!” Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s first 2015 Golden Globes promo
Yes “gorgant” (pron. gorj-ant) is a word! Especially if the originators of said word, which naturally denotes, class, style and awards show fabulousness are none other than comedy legends, Tina Fey (30 Rock) and Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation), who are back for their third (and sadly, final), no doubt Continue Reading
Movie review: Two Days, One Night (Deux jours, une nuit)
Cinema has had a long and passionate love affair with the bleak, capricious realities of life and the dramatic possibilities contained therein. So too with tenacious protagonists who, though beaten down by their many travails, manage to find a way forward, one that doesn’t simply involve getting by, but Continue Reading
Stephen Byrne’s animated Firefly short: A galaxy of emotions in a scintilla of time
In our modern blockbuster age, we have been led to believe that for anything to truly affect us, it must be bigger, better, epic! So epic in fact that cities, nay continents must fall, all but but a fraction of the characters we care for must die, and the Continue Reading
Marvellous massing of movie trailers: Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Jurassic World, Age of Adaline, Cinderella, Strange Magic
While I am enamoured of films that deal with the real world and it’s many imperfect out-workings, my love affair with going to the movies began with films like Star Wars: A New Hope and Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom that offered a me chance to escape into a world Continue Reading