Apart from writer-director Charlie Kaufman’s Anomalisa being animated from stop-motion puppetry, there is initially nothing too different about the film. But knowing Kaufman’s reputation for weird story-telling (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), that normalcy does not last for too long.
2015
GEEK OUT! 2015: THE YEAR IN MOVIES
In hindsight, 2015 has proven to be a rather disappointing year for geek movies. Despite the hype accorded to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, JJ Abrams’ reboot of the franchise proved less than satisfying but that could not stop the movie from grossing over a billion at the box office Continue Reading
2015: A POWER OF POP SPOTIFY PLAYLIST (NOV/DEC)
150 tracks to remember 2015 by. We complete the playlist with songs from November & December viz. iNCH, Squeeze, .gif, Paul Weller, Adele, David Bowie and more. … still there’s more …
2015: A POWER OF POP SPOTIFY PLAYLIST (SEP/OCT)
Updated our 2015 lookback to include great music from September/October 2015 viz. RiceCrackers, The Quartermasters, New Order, Pugwash and more. … still there’s more …
2015: A POWER OF POP SPOTIFY PLAYLIST (JULY/AUG)
Updated our 2015 lookback to include great music from June 2015 viz. Lost Weekend, EZTV, The Steve McQueens, Wilco, Veruca Salt and more. … still there’s more …
2015: A POWER OF POP SPOTIFY PLAYLIST (JUNE)
Updated our 2015 lookback to include great music from June 2015 viz. DEON, Kid Wave, Everything Everything, Wolf Alice and more. … still there’s more …
2015: TOP TEN SINGAPORE RELEASES
The amount of new music releases in 2015 is staggering. And it’s basically impossible to be able to listen to everything out there. But when it comes to Singapore Rock, well then it is possible to almost do just that. Thus, a justification for this list – our recommendations for Continue Reading
2015: A POWER OF POP SPOTIFY PLAYLIST (MAY)
Updated our 2015 lookback to include great music from May 2015 viz. Charlie Lim, The Orange Humble Band, And So I Watch You From Afar, The Word and more. … still there’s more …
ALBUM OF THE YEAR: MAX RICHTER – SLEEP
Described by the composer himself as an eight-hour long cradle song, Sleep is probably one of the finest musical concepts of 2015. Fact is, this is a release that would only make sense now, cuz an eight-hour piece makes no sense commercially on CD or vinyl or cassette! But as Continue Reading
2015: A POWER OF POP SPOTIFY PLAYLIST (APRIL)
Updated our 2015 lookback to include great music from April 2015 viz. Cheating Sons, Max Jury, Jaime Wong, Josh Rouse and more. … still there’s more …
2015: A POWER OF POP SPOTIFY PLAYLIST (MAR)
Updated our 2015 lookback to include great music from March 2015 viz. In Each Hand a Cutlass, Ralegh Long, Riot !n Magenta, Modest Mouse and more. … still there’s more …
2015: A POWER OF POP SPOTIFY PLAYLIST (FEB)
Updated our 2015 lookback to include great music from February 2015 viz. Blackberry Smoke, Steve Earle, Treasure Fleet, Love X Stereo and more. … still there’s more …
2015: A POWER OF POP SPOTIFY PLAYLIST (JAN)
It’s December and there are about 25 days left in 2015. As good a time to reflect and look back at the music of the year via a Spotify playlist. Here’s the songs we dug from January, which includes material from The Decemberists, TAJ, Gaz Coombes, Catfish & the Bottlemen Continue Reading
GEEK OUT! FIRST CUT 2015 – A MOVIE MASHUP PREVIEW FROM JOBLO MOVIE TRAILERS
Lest anyone forget, 2015 is the year of Back to the Future 2! Which makes that movie a awesome lead in for this excellent mashup of the upcoming movies this year. From the kind folks at JoBlo Movie Trailers!
REEL TO REAL: MR. TURNER – 8 JAN 2015
Omitted from our list of Coming Movies in Jan 2015, this biopic of the legendary British painter J.M.W. Turner is a must-see for Mike Leigh’s direction and Timothy Spall’s award-winning performance as the seminal artist. Mr. Turner opens in Singapore on 8th January. … still there’s more …
GEEK OUT! COMING MOVIES IN 2015 – PART TWO
Our look at the geek movies of 2015 continues with the 2nd half of the year dominated by the return of the Star Wars movie franchise with Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens. Nothing even comes remotely close between that and Avengers: Age of Ultron – which means serious moolah Continue Reading
GEEK OUT! COMING MOVIES IN 2015 – PART ONE
Here we go again, as 2014 wraps up, let’s take a look at the geek movies coming our way in the first half of 2015 and examine which are the ones we must watch and the ones we might need to avoid. Alien Outpost (30 Jan) Typical alien invasion flick Continue Reading