SNAPSHOTKeanu Reeves (John Wick, The Matrix) and Alex Winter (Deep Web; Downloaded) will officially be reuniting on screen after 27 years as the legendary Ted “Theodore” Logan (Reeves) and Bill S. Preston Esq. (Winter) in the highly anticipated third installment of the Bill & Ted comedy, Bill & Ted Face Continue Reading
Is the afterlife digital? Thoughts on Upload
As The Good Place proved, death can be funny. Well, not so much death itself which is distinctly unfunny and horrifically grief-inducing but what comes afterwards, with the afterlife ripe, as it turns out, for some very clever riffs on heaven and hell and whether there might be some more Continue Reading
Book review: Away With the Penguins by Hazel Prior
Is it ever too late to change your life? If you were to ask Veronica McCreedy at the start of Hazel Prior’s (Ellie and the Harp Maker) charmingly redemptive novel Away With the Penguins, you would likely receive a snappy, tart reply that “Of course it is! How could you Continue Reading
Weekday pop art: Mythical pop culture creatures go vintage scientific
SNAPSHOTFrom the series “Unnatural History” that explores pop culture characters depicted as vintage biology illustration studies. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) If you’re as enamoured of good storytelling as I am, you will understand that feeling deep within that acknowledges that though fictional creatures from movies, TV and books aren’t real, Continue Reading
Movie review: The Vast of Night
If you ever watched Game of Thrones, and it seems at one point the entire universe did and then some, you may remember that the Red Priestess, Melisandre, made reference as part of some ritualised chanting, to the fact that “The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors”. It was Continue Reading
Hello Mrs Doubtfire! Shall we dance?
SNAPSHOTBeats and tunes made from the sounds of Mrs. Doubtfire. Enjoy! (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Mrs Doubtfire is one of the great comedic triumphs of the 1990s. Released in 1993, this deeply poignant film starred the late, great, sorely-missed Robin Williams as Daniel Hillard / Mrs. Euphegenia Doubtfire, a man Continue Reading
Book review: Small Mercies by Richard Anderson
Tenacity is an amazing thing. It speaks of the ability to face up to the very worst of things, to know how terrible and existentially exhausting they are, to know you could run away and leave an intolerable situation far behind … and yet NOT. What propels you to hang Continue Reading
Their fate is in your hands – Thoughts on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. The Reverend
It was a cold and terrible day in January 2019, the 25th to be exact, when the final six episodes of Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt dropped on Netflix and Titus (Tituss Burgess) barked his last defensive pun, Lillian (Carol Kane) had to forgo fighting the gentrification of her belovedly raggedy slice Continue Reading
Train to Busan: Peninsula ponders: Is it possible to escape the apocalypse?
SNAPSHOT“Four years after South Korea’s total decimation in Train to Busan, the zombie thriller that captivated audiences worldwide, acclaimed director Yeon Sang-ho brings us Peninsula, the next nail-biting chapter in his post-apocalyptic world. Jung-seok, a soldier who previously escaped the diseased wasteland, relives the horror when assigned to a covert operation Continue Reading
Book review: Revenger by Alastair Reynolds
At the heart of every space epic, the really good ones anyway, there has to be a thread of vibrant, affecting humanity. Being taken to strange and exotic worlds in the midst of enticing galaxies far beyond the banality of 21st century day-to-day life is a compelling reason to read Continue Reading