How Television Saved My Life

And he did.  Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)

Don't fuck with man's best friend I'd heard that  Keanu Reeves  decided to step back into action, which is his best genre to be honest. The man might not have the most formidable of acting skills, but those he has excels in such an environment where violence plays the biggest part. You find it utterly believable that he can wield a gun and kill people with little conscious on his part. John Wick is about John who just recently lost his wife, but where all hope has lost, his wife gave him one last parting gift expecting her own death.  One lone little puppy that brings hope into John's life again, but it's when he comes across a knob-head Iosef Tarasov played by  Alfie Allen  who's familiar to anyone watching Game of Thrones ( besides the song Alfie by Lily Allen ) - that things more or less fall apart. It turns out that John isn't just a widow grieving his loss, but an ex-hit man who one shouldn't - for a lack of a better w...

(spoilers in text) Besides enjoying scones and frivolous amounts of tea, I've finally caught up with the likes of Agent Carter , which series finale will be coming up next week. Peggy is in harsher waters than ever before, as she's challenged by the people who work with her. While Leviathan is seemingly leading, having gotten their hands on equipment that will certainly throw shade over the eight episode. But she's not the only one suffering, as Annalise finds difficulties when Sam's sister shows up - besides Sam's body. My favourite leading ladies aren't experiencing any fun time these days, but it's certainly interesting to see them under such circumstances. The intrigues just continue to simmer under the layered web of How to get away with murder and they're certainly at a rise in Broadchurch.  Cliffhangers and emotions are being used rather well this week, and hopefully before the great summer draught aka the hiatus - we'll have some sol...

'Hand gestures means friends' I love that not once in the film is the other possible word ' friend zoned' ever mentioned, which briefly did give me a wee lantern of hope throughout what could have been a very awkward scene.  Daniel Radcliffe  plays  Wallace who is a normal bloke, but just got his heart broken. He finds himself at a party where he meet Chantry ( Zoe Kazan )  who he immediately hits it off with, and who admits to him that she never experiences that kind of thing at parties. Unfortunately after he's gallantly followed her home and asked her if they could meet again, she drops the b-word - boyfriend . Wallace then willingly lets her number go instead of pursuing an actual friendship with Chantry. Since clearly the classic 90's view of - 'men and women' can't be friend is still thriving, though in some ways this one is 'a man who instantly finds a woman attractive and wants to be with her can't be friends with her'. T...

Jennifer Kent's first long feature debut is a well-crafted horror film, and I'm not talking about the typical jump-scares  and gore that frequents the genre these days. This is a different matter entirely. Amelia is a mother to a six-year-old boy called Samuel. He's rather afraid of monsters , though she tries to convince him they aren't real, he seems to be under the belief they very much are. Making weapons and preparing himself to protect her and him from them. His beliefs take a rather nasty turn when he wants her to read from a book called: The Babadook. It's a pop-up book about a monster called Mr Babadook. Samuel does what he always does, is terrified, while his mother lets him sleep in her bed. much to her frustration. But in the end, it seems that The Babadook is someone you can't ignore. Spine-tingling is the kind of horror I enjoy, where sound comes forward and plays. The film uses that efficiently, emphasizing certain things and knowing whe...

It's Valentine's Day , which is of course when I recommend the rather brilliant The Fall . No, it's not the film from 2006 with Lee Pace, though that's actually a piece of beautiful cinematography and great storytelling. The Fall is the brilliant thriller with Jamie Dornan and Gillian Anderson. The former is probably more known from his brief tenure in Once Upon A Time , while the latter is a woman who one cannot but love. We're in Belfast and there's a serial killer targeting women, played by Dornan masterfully - with a scary amount of sexual aura that makes one rather disconcerted. It's clear the police are at a loss, and Stella Gibson played by Anderson is brought in to capture the man. We follow both of them, learn to know of their private lives and how their minds work, it's an interesting view of things. The thing that is different with this is that for once Dornan's character Paul Spector isn't glorified or redeemed for what he does...