SNAPSHOTThe upcoming musical … centers [sic] on Regina Fuller (The Good Fight‘s Christine Baranski), “a rich and nasty woman [who] returns to her small hometown after her father’s death to evict everyone and sell the land to a mall developer, right before Christmas. However, after listening to stories of the Continue Reading
Movie review: On the Rocks
Ah, the bright and fizzy effervescence of new love! When Cupid’s arrow does its much-romanced about thing, and we are swept up into the gushing thrills of getting to know that special someone, it’s almost impossible to believe that there will be any dimming of the ardour and the passion. Continue Reading
Book review: The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
After what has been by any measure the year from hell, where reality’s failings have been laid bare without fear or favour and without the hint of an apology, you could be forgiven for wondering if there is anything good or just left in the world at all. Everywhere you Continue Reading
Comics review: Lucy Dreaming by Max Bemis and Michael Dialynas
The idea that there something magical just beyond our understanding and outside our rather drab and often cruel reality is a compelling one. After all, who hasn’t wondered, when faced with the drudgery and exhaustion of another day in a world full of disappointment and sadness whether there isn’t something Continue Reading
Will Christmas endure? Find out in The Christmas Chronicles 2
SNAPSHOTIt’s been two years since siblings Kate (Darby Camp) and Teddy Pierce (Judah Lewis) saved Christmas, and a lot has changed. Kate, now a cynical teenager, is reluctantly spending Christmas in Cancun with her mom’s new boyfriend and his son Jack (Jahzir Bruno). Unwilling to accept this new version of Continue Reading
Movie review: The Forty-Year-Old Version
Is there an expiry date on your hopes and dreams? There shouldn’t be since, if you’re open to them, hopes and dreams should be the magical momentum that sustains you throughout the course of your life, but for Radha in The Forty-Year-Old Version, it is increasingly feeling like any chance Continue Reading
Friends matter: How Phoebe avoided becoming her evil twin (video essay)
SNAPSHOTAs part of their fascinating series of deconstructing the individual personalities of the characters on Friends, hosts Debra Minoff and Susannah McCullough of The Take take a look at how the twin characters of Phoebe Buffay and Ursula Buffay and how they truly embody the “Evil Twin” concept. (synopsis (c) Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Welcome to the Club” (S6, E2 review) + The Walking Dead: World Beyond – “The Tyger and the Lamb” (S1, E3 review)
FEAR THE WALKING DEAD SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SWEET, SWEET ZOMBIES … You could safely say that being smack bang in the midst of the zombie apocalypse is a great big steamy pile of the proverbial. Metaphorically speaking, of course, and as it turns in episode 2, “Welcome to the Continue Reading
Comics review: Low – Vol. 1: The Delerium of Hope by Remender + Tocchini
Low is, in every possible sense of the word, EPIC (and yes, the capitalisation is most assuredly warranted and necessary). Written by Rick Remender with artwork by Greg Tocchini, Low is one of those science fiction comics series that takes its impressively imaginative premise and runs it to every possible Continue Reading
Star Trek: Discovery – “That Hope is You, Pt. 1” (S3, E1 review)
MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A LOT SNARKY ANDORRANS AND ORIONS … AND POSSIBLE ICE CREAM CARGO Good lord but isn’t it good to have Star Trek: Discovery back on our screens of choice?! Much of that joy stems from the fact that we have waited 18 long months to Continue Reading