Parade Of Lights | Feeling Electric | Rating: 8.1/11 | Here in the year of 2015 it’s damned impossible to escape electro and synth-pop; musical sounds that seem to have an extended life all their own, never experiencing a resurgence because they never went away in the first place. It’s an overpopulated and downright noisy field and one just hopes to find something that […]
Housebreaking | Author: Dan Pope | Rating: 8/11 The second novel by award-winning author Dan Pope, Housebreaking is a masterfully crafted portrait of modern suburban life, American Beauty-esque in the way that it reveals the layers upon layers of dysfunction that go on behind closed doors of your everyday community. When Benjamin Mandelbaum finds himself living with his elderly father as his […]
Mortdecai | Blu-Ray + Digital HD | Rating: 7.7 / 11 | There isn’t always budget to appropriately market every film’s release, and sometimes a cult gem sneaks by unseen by the majority of the nation. This just might be the case with Mortdecai, a modern slapstick comedy of a spy film featuring an unbelievably talented cast (Johnny Depp, Evan […]
Follow Your Gut | Author: Rob Knight (with Brendan Butler) | Rating: 10/11 Have you ever wondered why two seemingly similar people can be predisposed to such different conditions? Do you know someone that can’t seem to avoid being attacked by mosquitoes the moment that they step outside? Why do some people have food sensitivities, even when their parents do […]
Mini Mansions | The Great Pretenders | Rating: 9/11 | Honestly, the jury has never really been out regarding whether they were a full-fledged musical offering as opposed to a Queens of the Stone Age side project of QOTSA bassist Michael Shuman: Mini Mansions have never been pretenders. Contradicting this sophomore record’s title is as cheeky a thing as anything else you’ll find on this […]
Castle | Season 6 (DVD) | Rating: 8.5/11 Season 6 of Castle marks the beginning of a new journey for Katherine Beckett (Stana Katic) and Richard Castle (Nathan Fillion). After the season 5 finale where Castle asks Beckett to marry him, we return almost exactly after that special moment. It wouldn’t be true to Castle if there weren’t complications for […]
Until The Ribbon Breaks | A Lesson Unlearnt | Rating: 8.5/11 | Photo Credit: Debi del Grande | Welshman Pete Lawrie-Winfield had a dream: one of sonic nods to cinema and noir, to beats and the bedroom, and to satisfaction via less re-imagination (remixing/producing the works of others) and more personal creation. With mates Elliot Wall and James Gordon, on […]
