There is a great deal to like about the recently-released Dawn of the Planet of the Apes which defied the usual trend of sequels by being every bit the equal of its predecessor Rise of the Planet of the Apes. One of the aspects of the movie that most Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Evolve or Die” (S4, E4 review)
*There be aliens and spoilers aplenty ahead!* Falling Skies may have belatedly embraced its inner apocalyptic child this season but that didn’t stop it from coming over all Maria von Trapp (Julie Andrews) this week in 4th episode “Evolve or Die”. Or should that be all Rolfe the messenger Continue Reading
A soldier without a war? That makes him The Last Man (trailer + poster)
SNAPSHOT A soldier (Richard Glover) is awoken from stasis to find the world completely destroyed. Venturing into the wasteland he is faced with the devastating loneliness of being the last man alive. (synopsis via UK Horror Scene) For a guy as upbeat and doggedly optimistic as myself, I sure Continue Reading
Now this is music #33: The Hics, Mapei, T V Å, Kite String Tangle, Lowell
It’s time my friends to musically zip around the globe! From Sweden to USA to Australia and back to the UK via Canada, I’ve gathered together five amazing songs by up and coming artists from around the world that have that something irrefutably special about them. All of these Continue Reading
Movie review: Sex Tape
Sex Tape, directed by Jake Kasdan (Bad Teacher, New Girl), is a small “c” comedy with big “C” comedy aspirations it never quite realises. With a script by the same scriptwriters (plus one, Kate Angelo) who, oddly enough, brought us 2011’s sublimely wonderful The Muppet Movie, star Jason Segel and Continue Reading
First impressions: Extant
There’s a whole lot of creepy going on in Extant … and for the most part it’s all quite well executed. Which is a pleasant surprise after the dramatically nonsensical debacle that was, and is Extant‘s summer sister series on CBS, Under the Dome, which inexplicably continues to attract viewers Continue Reading
Movie review: Reaching For the Moon
In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lysander remarks with considerable insight that “the course of true love never did run smooth”, a recognition that the meeting of two hearts, the coming together of what Plato called the twin yearning halves of the one soul, while glorious and overflowing with Continue Reading
(re)Visions: Alice – Interview: Kaye Chazan, author of the novelette “What Aelister Found Here”
This is the first in a series of interviews with the (re)Visions: Alice that I published on a now sadly defunct writing site back in 2012. I hope you enjoy discovering more about the authors behind these remarkably imaginative re-imagined tales. Kaye Chazan describes herself on her blog as “a writer Continue Reading
Movie review: Still Life
The tightly circumscribed world of John May (beautifully played with a gentle intensity by Eddie Marsan) is a grey, well-ordered and wholly predictable one in Uberto’s Pasolini’s latest film Still Life. Employed by the council in the South London district of Kennington for 22 years to track down the often-ambivalent, Continue Reading
Rip’d from the pages of my childhood: The life-changing books of conservationist Gerald Durrell
I have always been a voracious reader. As a child I devoured anywhere between 75 and 150 books a year – and yes, I have the geeky award cards from the school librarian to prove it; this explains, of course why I was so wildly popular with my peers during Continue Reading