Sorry I’m not around much at the moment. It’s not so much that I’m writing ALL THE THINGS as it is I am writing a very large thing that takes up most of my time. I’m coming up on deadline so hopefully I should not only be able to talk about the very large …
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvNQWQSwmow] This is taken from The Heist, the largely extraordinary first full length album by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. Years ago, on Band Aid, Bono was described as singing like he’d just been released from prison. Macklemore raps the same way, especially this, a tribute to legendary sports broadcaster Dave Niehaus that had …
Alfonso Cuaron is one of the most interesting directors working in mainstream (ish) Hollywood cinema right now. He came to prominence with the third Harry Potter adaptation, Prisoner of Azkaban, which was not only the first movie in the series to have some bite, but a chance for him to unleash exactly the sort of …
This is an image by comic artist Dean Trippe. It’s called ‘You’ll Be Safe Here.’ It’s available as a wallpaper, and a print, and I would very, very strongly recommend you pick it up because, well, look at the thing. Dean has packed that so full of the greatest characters in modern pop culture …
The image above is s a piece of concept art from Dead Space 2 and it shows Isaac Clarke, surely the most unlucky hero in modern science fiction games, boosting out into hard vacuum. Behind him, a nightmare of bony swords and skinned bodies is erupting from the ship Isaac’s making his escape from. The …
Earlier this month, at CinemaCon, Alan Horn of House Disney announced the plan for the Star Wars sequels. Starting in 2015, there will be one released every year, for a minimum of five years. And lo, much weeping, rejoicing and arguing over how this will impact on continuity did echo throughout the land. This announcement …
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