SNAPSHOTBugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and the rest of the Looney Tunes gang are set to make their Porky Pig-like entrance back onto our screens starting May 27 … [via] all-new animated shorts series Looney Tunes Cartoons. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and featuring a talented group of voice cast members Continue Reading
Book review: Don’t Read the Comments by Eric Smith
There is something about the pursuit of something you love, whether its gaming, reading, paragliding or cake making, which feels inestimably pure and lovely. You are swept into this perfect place where great happiness and fulfillment resides, and where you step away from the rigours and demands of everyday life Continue Reading
Things that have yet to happen: Tenet and the future of the world
SNAPSHOTTenet will be an international espionage thriller filmed across seven countries. John David Washington (BlacKkKlansman) stars, with a supporting cast that includes Robert Pattinson (Good Time), Elizabeth Debicki (Widows), Dimple Kapadia (Fugly), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Avengers: Age of Ultron), Michael Caine (The Dark Knight Rises) and Kenneth Branagh (Dunkirk). (First Showing) Continue Reading
Eurovision Song Contest magic strikes again … Listen to “Volcano Man” from Will Ferrell’s “The Story of Fire Saga”
SNAPSHOTEurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga is an upcoming American comedy film directed by David Dobkin, written by Andrew Steele and Will Ferrell and starring Ferrell, Rachel McAdams, Pierce Brosnan, Dan Stevens and Demi Lovato. The film follows Icelandic singers Lars Erickssong and Sigrit Ericksdottir as they are Continue Reading
Book review: Bruny by Heather Rose
It is a rare thing indeed to come across a book which is simultaneously page-turningly riveting, emotionally resonant and immeasurably clever without being insufferable. Bruny by the incomparable Heather Rose (The Museum of Modern Love) is just such a book, one which explores the murky political and personal aftermath of Continue Reading
At home COVID-19 French Film Festival: Crash Test Aglaé
Trauma affects us all in different ways. Some people bury the resulting hurt and pain so deeply that it never sees the light of day again, pretending that everything is fine, just fine thank you, while others exhume it, sort through it and dispense with it, glad it has been Continue Reading
Comics review: The Thrilling Adventure Hour – Martian Manhunt
Fighting battles of any kind on Mars would be, you would have to think given its otherworldliness and hostility to life, be a fairly big deal. After all, it’s not like you’re duking it out on the green, green grass of home. But in The Thrilling Adventure Hour: Martian Manhunt, Continue Reading
BRRRR! Snowpiercer speeds its way finally to a TV or streaming device near you
SNAPSHOTSnowpiercer is set in 2021, seven years after the world becomes a frozen wasteland and follows the remnants of humanity who inhabit a gigantic, perpetually moving train that circles the globe. The show questions class warfare, social injustice, and the politics of survival. (synopsis courtesy Wikipedia) While everyone is currently Continue Reading
Movie review: Uncorked
Whether they are self-imposed or imposed from outside, the weight of expectations can weight heavily on someone’s life. While the more militant among us might decry the pressure these expectations bring and simply urge those afflicted to push them off and carry on as if they were never there, the Continue Reading
Book review: The Book of Koli (Rampart Trilogy #1) by M. R. Carey
In a world connected by jet planes, the internet and worldwide production chains, we take it as a given that getting things done fast and staying connected as we do so will always be a fact of life. But prolific writer M. R. Carey (The Girl With All the Gifts, Continue Reading