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 telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Weekend movie poster art: The trippy character intensity of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
SNAPSHOT“‘The Multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little.’ Following the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home and the first season of Loki, Dr. Stephen Strange’s continuing research on the Time Stone is hindered by a friend-turned-enemy, resulting in Strange unleashing unspeakable evil. Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: The “poetic ferocity” of Annalee Newitz’s The Terraformers
SNAPSHOTDestry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted to preventing ecosystem collapse. On the planet Sask-E, her mission is to terraform an Earthlike world, with the help of her taciturn moose, Whistle. But then she discovers a city that isn’t supposed to exist, Continue Reading
Get ready for Daffy Duck’s Easter Egg-citement!
Quite apart form the puntastic title, which celebrates hilarious misuse of the English language in the service of Easter-y jokes going back eons, Daffy Duck’s Easter Egg-citement is an unmitigated joy to watch because we get to watch the eponymous star of the show characteristically lose his you-know-what in not Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #64: Go_A, MUNA, Kylie Minogue & Gloria Gaynor, The Regrettes, Manila Killa + new ABBA “Waterloo” lyric video
The world is a bleak place right now. What with the nightmarish presence of war, the endless disruption of the pandemic or the prevailing hell of climate change, it’s hard not to feel overwhelmed, exhausted and unsure how to respond to it all. The following five artists don’t claim to Continue Reading
War is coming – the Upside Down is coming for everyone in the new trailer for Stranger Things season 4
SNAPSHOT“So much of the season is about Max. We open the season with her struggling with [her grief] and her trying to navigate that, and Max, on the other hand, is also someone who doesn’t easily open up to people. So a lot of what she’s dealing with, she’s struggling Continue Reading
Book review: Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson
People like to think that, above all else, they know their family well. In a world where a great many other things will disappoint, horrify or surprise, we can be assured, so we tell ourselves, that we know the ins and out of family members, for better or worse, especially Continue Reading
Movie review: Sing 2
Pixar has been the main game in the animation town ever since Toy Story came alive in a deserted metaphorical toy room in 1995 and won our hearts with vividly-realised characters, clever, smart, emotionally insightful scripts and visuals so sharply drawn that you swore Woody, Buzz and the others were Continue Reading
Graphic novel preview: Far from Wonderland, is it a one-way ticket to the asylum in Alice Ever After?
SNAPSHOTAlice first visited Wonderland as a child. Now grown up, it’s become her only escape from a cold, harsh world that feels even less real—a distant family, a tormented lover, and a father with secrets he’ll do anything to protect. But in order to return to her fantasy, Alice will Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2022: Week 3 – Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine (semi-final 1, part 3) + Semi-final 1 top 10 picks
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 telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading