Harmonies. Attitude. Intensity. Euphoric escape. They may not seem to have much in common but all of them talk of life, of distilling the part of it that you are at that moment in time and living it, breathing it, being it. In other words, having a pulse. All Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Eddie, a darkly clever tale of a zombie lab test subject
SNAPSHOT Deep underground, a second-rate scientist mans a discarded research facility struggling to cope with extreme boredom, a desperate voiceless companion and a mystery he’d really rather not have to solve… Directed by John Lynch, and written by Jon Williams-Nobbs & John Lynch, Eddie is a proof-of-concept short for Continue Reading
Comics review: I Hate Fairyland
Gertrude is one sick, twisted, murderously-narcissistic individual. But then the odds are pretty good that you would be too if you’d tumbled into the sugar-drenched delights of Fairyland, where fauns and Giggle Giants and sentient moons and stars romp, at the age of 6 and spent 30 years trying Continue Reading
Shada: Tom Baker’s Doctor Who has been lost for a long, long time
SNAPSHOT “Shada” finds the Doctor in Cambridge working alongside companion Romana and retired Time Lord, Professor Chronotis, to defeat the evil alien Skagra who is attempting to steal the secrets to the prison planet, “Shada”. You would be hard pressed to disagree with the fact that Douglas Adams, the Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Things Bad Begun” / “Sleigh Ride” (S3, E13 & E14 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A GREAT BIG HELPING OF PARADISE LOST … Being a doublebanger finale, “Things Bad Begun” / “Sleigh Ride” was always going to be an epic, grand, monstrously big, finish to the exceptionally robust and compelling storytelling of Fear the Walking Dead. And so it proved, Continue Reading
Step into the delightfully raunchy 1950s world of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
SNAPSHOT Miriam “Midge” Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) is a Jewish housewife living in New York City in 1958. Her husband, Joel, is a successful businessman who moonlights as a struggling comedian. Midge supports Joel, providing feedback about his sets, but becomes disillusioned when she discovers that Joel has stolen one Continue Reading
Retro movie review: Wayne’s World
Returning to one of the outstanding movies of your young adulthood is not without some risk. Is it as good as you remember? Have the glasses through you gaze upon it become so deeply and heavily rose-tinted that they filter out even the merest hint of middle-aged criticality? In Continue Reading
1984: A very weird year for Stranger Things
SNAPSHOT Stranger Things season 2 is set a year after Will’s return, and everything seems back to normal… but a darkness lurks just beneath the surface, threatening all of Hawkins. It’s 1984 and the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still reeling from the horrors of the demagorgon and the secrets Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: S1, E3 “Context is for Kings” / E4 “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry” review
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND FUNGUS WITH SOME WARP SPEED GRUNT … When most people reach rock bottom, the natural inclination is to immediately seize the first opportunity to get back up the slippery slope of life. But then most people are not Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), most recently seen Continue Reading
All you need is a carrot: What is the hidden meaning of Frozen?
Ha! Think you know what Frozen is all about? Think it’s all about family schisms, unwelcome gifts of the metaphysical kind, estrangement, family, love and redemption? Think again my friends because as Earthling Cinema from the Wisecrack channel on YouTube hilariously and yet with an admirably straight face reveals, Continue Reading