The idea that a particular geographic place can carry great cultural importance or emotional weight for a specific group of people would make sense for most of us. After all, we all find ourselves drawn, singularly or as a group, to places that speak to us or shape us in Continue Reading
Is this the real thing? It is … welcome to the Bo-Meme-Ean Rhapsody video
SNAPSHOT Welcome to the Official Bo-Meme-Ean Rhapsody fan video!. Initially, I just collected all the images and captioned them (lyrics by Freddie Mercury), and put them in order. But when I made the image folder public & shareable on Facebook, it went viral and exploded in about 3 days. My Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “Saints of Imperfection” (S2, E5 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A REALLY NICE RECIPE FOR MUSHROOM RECIPE … WAIT, NO, AS YOU WERE … Apart from its idealistic view of the future, which given current trends looks so Pollyanna-ish that you could be forgiven for thinking we’ll blow ourselves up long before the Vulcans stop by for “Hey, you got warp!” Continue Reading
Forbidden snacks: How popcorn went from forbidden to the darling of cinema bottomlines
SNAPSHOT As popcorn’s wealth circulated, theaters realized they needed to sell concessions without the street vendors as the middleman. The theaters are selling popcorn, candy, and soda. Things are going great until World War II came around and the United States entered a sugar shortage. Sugar exporters were cut off Continue Reading
Author Annalee Newitz takes us on an alternate adventure to The Future of Another Timeline
SNAPSHOT A dark thriller from Annalee Newitz about the lengths we’ll go to protect the ones we love. In a modern-day United States that’s just a step away from our own, time travel is possible. But a secret war is brewing over access to history. Tess is a geologist desperately Continue Reading
Mass of movie trailers: Aladdin, Juanita, Tolkien, The Hustle, Yesterday
INTRO ALADDIN SNAPSHOT The Aladdin cast includes: Two-time Oscar® nominee Will Smith (Ali, Men in Black) as the Genie who has the power to grant three wishes to whoever possesses his magic lamp; Mena Massoud (Amazon’s Jack Ryan) as Aladdin, the hapless but lovable street rat who is smitten with Continue Reading
Ralph Breaks the Internet: Behind-the-scenes look at the creation of virus Double Dan
How do you make a truly unlikeable antagonist somewhat likeable while still keeping an air of menace to them? Most particularly, how do you do this when you’re making a reasonably-cute Disney animated feature – really, is there any other kind? – which is meant to represent the fun as Continue Reading
Movie review: Giant Little Ones
Life, as you’ve likely noticed by now, is not a straightforward undertaking. While many people of a religious or even secular persuasion may choose to argue otherwise, clinging to their black-and-white dogma like its is truth incarnate, the reality is what we think will happen or who we think we’ll Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #2: SOAK, Dido, Beirut, Dodie, The Japanese House + Eurovision update
Life is a many-complicated thing. Yeah, yeah, I know it’s supposed to be “splendoured” but really sometimes, it doesn’t feel so much wondrous as complicated, a mix of the god and the bad, the lovely and the not-so-much and moments rich with potential but ripe with disappointment. Sure, we all Continue Reading
Do you want to watch a sequel? Frozen 2 has a trailer and a poster
SNAPSHOT We still don’t know all that much about the sequel’s plot, other than that it’ll see Anna, Elsa and co go on an adventure. Co-director Chris Buck has said that the new film will see the next evolution in the lives of the series’ stars Anna, Kristoff and Olaf, Continue Reading