The Eurovision Song Contest, that glorious, glittery spectacle that isn’t just out of left field, but comprises the field, had quite the 2014 edition. A televised competition featuring entrants...
Realizing that you’ve accidentally missed the episode: Attempting to find it on-demand as part of your cable package, then having it not work due to a connectivity error: Going online to distract...
Three Diana Wynne Jones books have been published since the author’s death in 2011, and I have bought each and mourned a little anew. There’s something particularly final, though, about The...
Allegations of sexual impropriety, abuse and violence have been an increasingly regular part of Australian football culture over the past 10 years. By pointing this out, I don’t suggest that the...
Check out these beautiful, ocean-inspired paintings by New York artist Samantha Keely Smith. In an interview with NeverLazy Magazine, she says My images are not at all real places or even inspired...
Can anyone contend with the Coen brothers? Fargo on FX is trying to do just that, with a series based on the 1996 film of the same name. Set in the icy reaches of the Midwest, where everyone behaves...
Harold Shand is dead. We always knew it in our hearts when the future James Bond drove him off at gunpoint. We always knew it but we couldn’t quite believe. Men like Shand don’t die. They...
Where do transatlantic beasts like Tom Hardy retreat to at night to escape the glare and glower of Hollywood? Which low budget vehicle will he squeeze into to prove his muscular acting prowess? In...
Orphan Black is BACK on BBC America, and the Canadian production is coming out of the gate swinging—literally, as Sarah (Tatiana Maslany) spent a fair chunk of the episode punching and/or pistol...
Animator Richard Swarbrick has taken some of the most well-known cats of Youtube and animated them in a beautiful impressionistic style in this spell-binding video.
