In our pandemic-saturated times, it is all too easy to picture the world ending. That may sound overly bleak and troublingly dark but the truth is that while we all wish for things to improve and for the world to regain its healthy civilisational glow, the reality is that COVID Continue Reading
Hawkeye: This holiday season the best gifts come with a bow (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOTFormer Avenger Clint Barton has a seemingly simple mission: get back to his family for Christmas. Possible? Maybe with the help of Kate Bishop, a 22-year-old archer with dreams of becoming a Super Hero. The two are forced to work together when a presence from Barton’s past threatens to derail Continue Reading
Figuring out life and love is messy: Never Have I Ever (season 2) review
It was those Swedish musical poets who once sagely observed, somewhere around 1973, that “Love Isn’t Easy But it Sure is Hard Enough”. with the song going on to observe that: “We gotta have patience, love isn’t just a sensationSome of the time it gets roughLove isn’t easy but it Continue Reading
So no one told you the galaxy was gonna be this way – Star Trek: Deep Space Nine meets Friends
Yes, someone has mixed the highly memorable and damn neat iconic Friends theme song with yet another TV show, in this case, shots of the main characters from my favourite Star Trek show Deep Space Nine, and yes you could wonder if it’s worth another trip down this particular mash-up Continue Reading
Book review: The Road Trip by Beth O’Leary
One of life’s great truisms, as least if you are a lover of supposedly self-evident truths masquerading as slightly cheesy slogans, is that you can never really go back. Sure, you can revisit the past with your therapist or think sweetly and nostalgically on it when the present gets too Continue Reading
Mini-mass of sci-fi movie trailers: Encounter, The Matrix: Resurrections, Warning
Escape to the stars! Or stay here on Earth … Either way science fiction offers the kind of thoughtfully intriguing escape many of us are craving right now in world that often feels altogether too dystopian for anyone’s taste. In these three films, we see the world in which we Continue Reading
Book review: For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten
People often live and die by the power of their beliefs. So enduring are they in many instances that even when there is evidence that they may not be as true as has been preached and believed, people hold to their faith doggedly, preferring entrenched belief to palpable evidence on Continue Reading
Fun weekend mash-ups: The imaginative cleverness of Frasier looking at video games
I love people who come up with left-of-centre, out-of-the-box way of reinterpreting a much loved character. It’s a takes a lot of imagination to step away from the known and expected, and it’s apparent that video game designer Eagle McGill from London, profiled in Laughing Squid, has that in spades, Continue Reading
Star Trek Day 2021: Trailers and news and panels … and onwards to the stars and lots of new viewing opportunities!
If ever we needed a time where we could escape to the stars it’s this one. To be fair most of human history – oh, who are we kidding? ALL of it – would likely have benefited from a future in which inclusiveness, diversity and social and economic equality are Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #55: Frances Forever, Ella James, Bathe, Ruby Haunt, Lucky Idiot + #Eurovision update!
Good lord but the current pandemic-addled state of the world is anxiety inducing isn’t it? As you survey a world where normal is no more, and is constantly abruptly and messily changing, it’s hard to imagine how you could possibly ever sit back, relax and watch life go by. And Continue Reading