Justice, court-mandated means of redress aside, is a fairly rare commodity. Everyone wants it, not that many people get it, and if they do, it’s far less satisfying or comprehensive than they expect. Which is why Crime Wave (Ola de crímenes), directed with gleeful vivacity by Gracia Querejeta, is such Continue Reading
Book review: The Quiet at the End of the World by Lauren James
For all the many and varied ways that humanity could slash its collective throat, the trip to the apocalypse almost always looks eerily the same. Some great cataclysmic event occurs, people die en masse (or rise up again), civilisation totters and falls, and the survivability of Homo Sapiens takes an Continue Reading
Did you start the MCU fire? Cast of Avengers: Endgame are adamant it wasn’t them!
Which came first – the Avengers or the mess they help clean up? Or, rather controversally, did they create the mess in the first place? It’s a classic chicken or the egg conundrum, and as Avengers: Endgame continues to rake in cash around the world – at last count, it Continue Reading
Living. Laughing. Limping. – Thoughts on Special
The world is not exactly a kind, forgiving place. That won’t comes as a newsflash to pretty much anyone, but what might come as an epiphany of sorts, especially if you’re the kind of person lacking in the kind of self-awareness necessary for any kind of truly-fulfilling life, is how Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The animated love of Mobile attraction
If you think back to when you really felt the first stirrings of attraction to someone, probably the first thing that springs to mind how desperately you wanted to be with them every single chance you got. It didn’t matter which obstacles stood in your path; you were going to Continue Reading
Book review: Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
It’s hard to say what separates a character in a novel that you absolutely fall head-over-heels in love with from those who you appreciate and like but are happy enough to leave behind, but one thing is certain – Queenie is very much the former and not even remotely the Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2019: Week 6 – Norway, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands
What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Faux doco goes Behind the Music with the Star Wars Cantina Band #Maythe4thbewithyou
SNAPSHOT During his final night at San Diego Comic-Con, CONAN presented a hilarious faux-documentary in the classic “Behind the Music” style faux documentary about Figrin D’an and the Modal Nodes, most famously known as the Star Wars Cantina Band. Music business luminaries as Michael McDonald, Kurt Loder, Don Was Shep Continue Reading
How big are Star Wars spaceships and planets? You might be surprised! #Maythe4thbewithyou
SNAPSHOT We never get to see any Star Wars spaceships in any sort of physical context because they’re always next to like planets or in outer space or next to arbitrary sci-fi cities. It got me wondering what they would look like if I put them in places you’re familiar Continue Reading
Book review: The True Queen by Zen Cho
When you typically think of fairies and the kind of home they might inhabit, you imagine ethereally winsome beings who drift around in naive delight, seeking to help those they encounter and awash with optimistically-uplifting joie de vivre. There’s no doubt that’s an appealing vision and one which entities like Continue Reading