• Supernatural is hitting its seventh season, after series creator Eric Kripke predicted only five. But has the story line become a tad too convoluted?

    Supernatural slump?

    Supernatural is hitting its seventh season, after series creator Eric Kripke predicted only five. But has the story line become a tad too convoluted?

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  • <em>127 Hours</em> never succumbs to the tone of a prosaic ‘stuck in a hole for five days’ bore fest; Boyle hooks his audience by using unique images and clever film techniques to reveal Ralston’s character as well as capture his psychological turmoil.

    127 Hours – an epiphany

    127 Hours never succumbs to the tone of a prosaic ‘stuck in a hole for five days’ bore fest; Boyle hooks his audience by using unique images and clever film techniques to reveal Ralston’s character as well as capture his psychological turmoil.

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  • LYRICAL LOITERINGS OF A LISTENER - Bold, brash, brutal… <em>barbaric</em> – Rammstein in words. Subtle is not how this German powerhouse rolls. The band batters its way into consciousness with porn, pyromania and petulance.

    Eifersucht: jealousy mutilates

    LYRICAL LOITERINGS OF A LISTENER - Bold, brash, brutal… barbaric – Rammstein in words. Subtle is not how this German powerhouse rolls. The band batters its way into consciousness with porn, pyromania and petulance.

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  • Like Hannibal Lecter, Gregory House is a predator...

    Of Hannibal and House

    Like Hannibal Lecter, Gregory House is a predator...

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  • Back to the 90s – They were black and orange (black outside, orange inside), satin and über poofy. All the cool guys wore them. And we called them 'bomber jackets'.

    ‘Bomber Jackets’ from the 90s

    Back to the 90s – They were black and orange (black outside, orange inside), satin and über poofy. All the cool guys wore them. And we called them 'bomber jackets'.

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  • Back to the 90s - Cubbi, Sunni, Gruffi, Zummi, Tummi, Grammi... <em>remember?</em>

    Gummi Bears

    Back to the 90s - Cubbi, Sunni, Gruffi, Zummi, Tummi, Grammi... remember?

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  • BOOK REVIEW - Does Goodkind have more to say or is <em>The Omen Machine</em> merely gratuitous?

    The Omen Machine: a review

    BOOK REVIEW - Does Goodkind have more to say or is The Omen Machine merely gratuitous?

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  • Both versions of John Lindqvist’s eerie tale are sublime tributes to the art of cinema and to the horror genre as well. There is nothing gratuitous in either film, every scene, angle, shot, expression, word and movement conveys a gravitas of meaning.

    Let Me In vs Let The Right One In

    Both versions of John Lindqvist’s eerie tale are sublime tributes to the art of cinema and to the horror genre as well. There is nothing gratuitous in either film, every scene, angle, shot, expression, word and movement conveys a gravitas of meaning.

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  • TV REVIEW: The Winchesters – oh baby! Six seasons of Dean and Sam (and soon to be seven)… life couldn’t be peachier.

    Supernatural

    TV REVIEW: The Winchesters – oh baby! Six seasons of Dean and Sam (and soon to be seven)… life couldn’t be peachier.

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  • <em>True Blood</em> is artful satire at its most poignant. When such great writing abounds, it is easy for art and humour to manifest in all their forms.

    Funny True Blood promo posters

    True Blood is artful satire at its most poignant. When such great writing abounds, it is easy for art and humour to manifest in all their forms.

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