Every so often a film seems to be branded ‘the new Matrix’ because it’s intelligent concept sci-fi that makes a shitload of money. The last big one was Inception and now, following in that same vein, we have Rian Johnson’s Looper, a time travel movie [...]
Words by Jeff Galasso. After their success with The Muppets Nicolas Stoller and Jason Segel return to their old profane tricks in illustrating the struggles faced by two love-struck San Franciscans in The Five-Year Engagement. This latest Stoller/Segel collaboration sees the latter teamed up with Emily Blunt as [...]
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is a book that holds a not insignificant place in my heart. It might seem, on the face of it, like your middle aged Alexander McCall Smith book club novel, but it is, in fact, a surprisingly challenging and inventive [...]
