*SPOILERS … AND A WHOLE LOT OF ABBIES INTENSITY GOING ON* So we witnessed the first strike for Abbies equality this week when it was revealed, via a neat sequence at the end of the episode, that all the males of the species are controlled, drone-like, by the females Continue Reading
What is the nature of your reality? Westworld plays with your conceptions
SNAPSHOT The one-hour drama series Westworld is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can Continue Reading
Movie review: Independence Day Resurgence
Good lord but Earth continues to be popular with the invading aliens crowd doesn’t it? And it’s not like they just visit the one time; in Independence Day: Resurgence, Roland Emmerich’s bigger-than-galactic-Ben-Hur follow-up to 1996’s Independence Day everyone’s favourite hive mind aliens are back and this time they’ve bought Continue Reading
Don’t cry for me Eurovision: Leonie Sii’s tips for coping with post-event depression
One thing that I discovered fairly quickly when I began watching the Eurovision Song Contest is that it’s impossible to simply view it and feel nothing. You either loathe and detest it (yes there are people out there that do believe it or not), or adore it and love Continue Reading
Now this is music #70: Broods, Foreign Air, Makelove, Sizzy Rocket, Yoke Lore
Life is way too short to be beholding to unhealthy attitudes, other people’s suffocating opinions or playing it too safe. So these five artists, with songs as animalistic and forceful and yet engagingly attractive and listenable as the subject matter they convey go some way to getting you to Continue Reading
The Girl With All the Gifts: Welcome to your zombie future humanity (trailer)
SNAPSHOT The near future; humanity has been all but destroyed by a mutated fungal disease that eradicates free will and turns its victims into flesh-eating “hungries”. Only a small group of children seem immune to its effects. At an army base in rural England, this group of unique children Continue Reading
Book review: The Trees by Ali Shaw
When we think of the apocalypse or dystopian futures, our minds usually go to scenes of the undead pursuing the living with flesh-craving resolve, giant asteroids on a collision course with Earth, or cities rife with grime and decay, poverty and despair. They do not, however, entertain visions of Continue Reading
Pack your Kickstarter bags: Vivian the Dog Moves to Brooklyn
SNAPSHOT Vivian the Dog Moves to Brooklyn is a book about a big dog moving from Albuquerque, New Mexico to Brooklyn, New York. It’s 32 pages long and will be full of beautiful photo-illustrations created by Mitch and starring Vivian, with some pretty fantastic letterings and drawings by the Continue Reading
Movie review: Everybody Wants Some!!
Styled as a spiritual successor to Linklater’s 1993 ode to the dying days of high school Dazed and Confused, Everybody Wants Some!! concentrates on another transitional period in many peoples’ lives – the move to college/university when everything seems possible but you wonder if you’ll be able to make Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Vestiges aka how to fight black sludge with a flamingo and plant magic
Word to the wise people – if the grassy idyllic valley in which you live is threatened by an advancing mass of black mud, one which at times takes humanoid shape, you should make sure you have a giant flying flamingo at hand and some plant magic with which Continue Reading