SNAPSHOTCBS All Access has ordered a full series of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, based on the years where Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) helms the U.S.S. Enterprise. The series will feature Star Trek: Discovery Season 2 fan favorites Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn as Number One, Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2020: Week 7 – France, Germany, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, UK
This is normally how I begin these review posts … 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 Continue Reading
Book review: The Octopus and I by Erin Hortle
When you or someone you love is diagnosed with cancer, there are a million different things (or it feels like that, anyway) that you have to deal with, usually in a very short amount of time. What’s my prognosis? Are my options plentiful or not? Should I undergo chemotherapy or Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #27: Aquilo, Ane Brun, Price Park & Jade Alice, uomo, Porter Robinson
Life is busy and wonderful and exhausting and full of a million things to contemplate normally, even more so when things take a very dark turn like they have in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Processing it all can sometimes feel like an impossible task, beyond anything we can Continue Reading
At home COVID-19 French Film Festival: Gaspard at the Wedding (Gaspard Va Au Mariage) #MovieReview
Released in 2017, Gaspard va au Mariage or Gaspard at the Wedding is a genre defier par excellence. With an adroit narrative zest courtesy of writer/director Antony Cordier, the film leaps with beguiling, quirky grace from romantic comedy to lo-fi family drama to a gently farcical comedy, all while remaining Continue Reading
Weekday pop art: Character posters released for Space Force
SNAPSHOTA decorated pilot with dreams of running the Air Force, four-star general Mark R. Naird (Steve Carell) is thrown for a loop when he finds himself tapped to lead the newly formed sixth branch of the US Armed Forces: Space Force. Skeptical but dedicated, Mark uproots his family and moves Continue Reading
Book review: The Last Human by Zack Jordan
If you take a look at the vast majority of sci-fi tales, humanity is everywhere … and in multitudinous profusion. Oft times we are the leading light of the universe, other times reviled but we are always there, somewhere, Terrans in the mix who make the galaxy go round. But Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Hey Gunther – who are you really?
SNAPSHOT“Günther [is] a rather surreal, but humorous animated short that features a naked hot dog named Günther who dances his way across a quest to find out exactly who he is. Along the way, he comes across some very colorful characters performing all sorts of tasks of the nonsensical variety. Continue Reading
High-key nerds, low-key virgins: Thoughts on Never Have I Ever
If you were judge Never Have I Ever on its appealing trailer alone, you might be tempted to think it’s yet another in a long line of quirky coming-of-age Netflix tales with preternaturally articulate teens, great big perplexing growing up life issues and a beguiling mix of quirky humour and Continue Reading
Book review: The Coconut Children by Vivian Pham
Finding your way through the many challenges that growing up demands is difficult at the best of times but even more, when the world in which all this growing up is taking place is almost inimical to this most universal of human transitions. Sonny, the protagonist of Vivian Pham’s evocatively Continue Reading