Love and death are inextricably linked. That might sound like a strange connection to make but think about it – in death we find a deep and resonant graphic understanding of how powerful and eternal love can be, how even in loss there can be a profound sense of connection Continue Reading
Where are they now? Now You See Me 2 unveils poster and trailer
SNAPSHOT The Four Horsemen [Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, Lizzy Caplan] return for a second mind-bending adventure, elevating the limits of stage illusion to new heights and taking them around the globe. One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their Robin Hood-style magic Continue Reading
Who do cats love cardboard boxes so much? Simon’s Cat Logic tells all
SNAPSHOT Cats feel safe in enclosed spaces. This explains why cardboard boxes are immensely popular. They feel safe having something enclosed and particularly something with sides. All cats need to be able to hide, not just the scaredy cats or not just when there’s fireworks outside. Even confident cats Continue Reading
Man vs Machine: Battlestar Galactica takes to the stars again
Way back when I was a child in a mythical land called the 1970s – Yes it really did exist; Farrah Fawcett’s hair is proof enough of that – there was a cheesy sci-fi show called Battlestar Galactica that nevertheless held me utterly enraptured. There was something about humanity’s Continue Reading
Loving living the living life: USA makes a Colbert-inspired bid for Eurovision inclusion
It may come as a surprise to many but until this year the Eurovision Song Contest had never been broadcast in the USA. Hard to believe but true. Granted there is so much going on within America pop culture-wise that getting on the radar there can be an almost Continue Reading
The Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (poster and title reveal)
Waiting for the chance to return to Stars Hollow is proving well nigh interminable with the Gilmore Girls scheduled to premiere on Netflix sometime later this year. But at least we now have a title – thanks to an announcement by Lauren Graham on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (see Continue Reading
Movie review: Tumbledown
Grief is not an easy or straightforward road to travel. That much becomes abundantly clear in the opening minutes of Tumbledown by directing-writing duo Sean Mewshaw and Desiree Van Til when Hannah Miles (Rebecca Hall), who is still mired in the grief of losing her folk singer husband Hunter two Continue Reading
New crews, new worlds: Star Trek’s big vision of space is coming back to the small screen
(Image via YouTube (c) CBS) We’re boldly going places we’ve never gone before AGAIN! Yes, granted Star Trek never really went away, its absence on the small screen made up for, in part at least, by a series of movies on the big screen, the latest of which Star Continue Reading
Now this is music #69 – M83, Shallows, Flanch, St. Albion, Luna Shadows
Its Friday! And like pretty everyone on planet earth at the working week, what you want to do is escape. But what if there’s no time or money to head to a cosy beach house or sit for hours on end at a poolside bar watching the world go Continue Reading
Oh hell yeah I wanna go to The Good Place
Ah yes the Afterlife. Many of us believe in it in some form or another – the ancient Egyptians gave Tutankhamen at entire tomb of gilded objects to make his transition there as rich and luxurious as possible – quite a lot of us don’t but you can be Continue Reading