SNAPSHOTPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl showcases the best of the adventure genre by using key genre elements as fundamental building blocks of the story and character design. In this video, the LFTS team explores four critical components of classic adventure films, dives into the deeper Continue Reading
Book review: Come Again by Robert Webb
Life is, we know all too well, a one-way street. We are born, we live, we die with no chance of going back for any kind of do-over and absolutely no prospect of taking hard-won lessons back to situations crying out for their accrued wisdom. And yet, what if one Continue Reading
Nothing going right? It’s The Goes Wrong Show!
SNAPSHOTThe Goes Wrong Show is probably the funniest comedy the BBC has shown in years. Based on the theatrical monsters from the Mischief Theatre that have filled London’s West End in recent years, including The Play That Goes Wrong by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields, Peter Pan Goes Continue Reading
Book review: State Highway One by Sam Coley
Home. For many people, it’s an almost physical concept, an idyll in an often-unwelcoming world where the people who love them and who have their back provide respite from the contrary vicissitudes of life. But for others like Aucklander Alex Preston, the protagonist of Sam Coley’s mesmerisingly-evocative State Highway One, Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The lo-fi sci-fi of Triangulation
SNAPSHOTTriangulation is the story of a man who has a most unusual series of encounters while scouting some triangulation pillars in the British countryside. The short picks up [creator John] Panton’s childhood obsession with triangulation pillars (‘something about them being defunct but previously interconnected stuck with me,’ he told Gizmodo), Continue Reading
Book review: Down Days by Ilze Hugo
What would you do if the world ended … but didn’t quite? How would you handle things if the city you lived in suffered from a pandemic of sorts, one that bore all the hallmarks of the 1962 Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic, a disease which begins with uncontrollable laughter before a Continue Reading
Things get unsettlingly weird in psychological horror I’m Thinking of Ending Things
SNAPSHOTDespite second thoughts about their relationship, a young woman (Jessie Buckley) takes a road trip with her new boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) to his family farm. Trapped at the farm during a snowstorm with Jake’s mother (Toni Collette) and father (David Thewlis), the young woman begins to question the nature of Continue Reading
It’s The Muppet Show opening them from 1976 … without the actual Muppets!
SNAPSHOTA little bit of fun by the crew recorded at the end of the first series/season of The Muppet Show in 1976…The crew/cast includes Peter Harris, Richard Holloway, Jim O’Donnell, Brian Grant, Steve Springford, Jerry Hoare, Phil Hawkes, Gerry Elms, John Rook, Martin Baker, Sue Boyers, Francis Essex, Dennis Bassinger, Continue Reading
All systems go for Star Trek: Lower Decks! The captain even has a super clean chair
SNAPSHOTDeveloped by Emmy Award winner Mike McMahan (Rick and Morty, Solar Opposites), Star Trek: Lower Decks, a new half-hour animated comedy series, focuses on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford, and Tendi have to keep up Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #32: Reyko, Jany Green, No Joy, Marshmello, Idolising Nova + Eurovision news
LOVE! It exciting and scary at the beginning, glorious in the middle and poignantly sad at the end (let’s try to avoid that shall we?) but it always, ALWAYS makes for great music. Such as the five songs below, three of which were found by this reviewer thanks to YouTube Continue Reading