Most of us like to think we have life all figured out. We don’t, of course, none of us really, bar some rather opinionated religious types and vague philosophers with scattered words of pseudo wisdom, but it’s the story we tell ourselves to keep our souls from exploding with a Continue Reading
“I guess a hero’s job is never done” – Baymax! debuts second trailer
SNAPSHOTStreaming exclusively on Disney+ on June 29, the all-new series of healthcare capers returns to the fantastical city of San Fransokyo where the affable, inflatable, inimitable healthcare companion robot, Baymax, sets out to do what he was programmed to do: help others. “I thought it would be fun to do Continue Reading
Book review: My Heart is a Little Wild Thing by Nigel Featherstone
Even the most ardently optimistic of us reach a point in life where we have to admit, or more accurately, feel we have to admit, that all of our lofty hopes and dreams are not going to come to fruition (recurrent type A personalities and social media influencers aside, of Continue Reading
A tantalising ton of TV trailers: Prehistoric Planet, Only Murders in the Building, Asteroid Rush, Queer as Folk + The Umbrella Academy (S3)
My To Be Watched list is beginning to look unsettlingly like my To Be Read pile – toweringly big, bigger than Canada and unlikely to be fully conquered in my lifeline. And yet, despite the implacable odds arrayed against me, I keep believing, thanks to a weird hope springs eternal Continue Reading
Thoughts on Picard (S2, E6 -10)
SOME SPOILERS AHEAD … AND BORG … AND Q … AND TIME TRAVEL-Y STUFF … One of the great joys of Jean-Luc Picard’s (Patrick Stewart) return to the small (now streaming) screen is the chance we have had to see who he is as a person now, and how that Continue Reading
Meet the reluctant, quip-ready superhero – She-Hulk: Attorney at law
SNAPSHOTShe-Hulk: Attorney at Law follows Jennifer Walters, played by [Tatiana] Maslany, as she navigates her life as a lawyer who specializes in superhuman-oriented legal cases. The series will dive into her personal life as a single 30-something that also happens to be a green 6-foot-7-inch superpowered hulk. Along with Maslany Continue Reading
Book review: The Charm Offensive by Alison Cochrun
There’s a certain blinkered quality to true love that only becomes when you actually enter a relationship, or are possibly on the way to doing so. All those swirling, richly-red, rose petal-coloured wafty dreams about falling headlong and completely in love suddenly look a lot more earthbound when you run Continue Reading
A marvellous mini-mass of movie trailers: Avatar – the Way of Water, Luck + Cha Cha Real Smooth
I am back at the movies! My spirit really never left but with COVID still creating havoc and in-person viewing often off the table over the last two years, actually put my bum into a cinema seat has proved problematic at best and impossible at worst. But over the last Continue Reading
When everyone has left the stage … the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 grand final wrap-up
The Eurovision Song Contest is over for another year. It’s sad, as always, because if there is one thing Eurovision does better than just about any other event, it’s remind us that good and wonderful things still exist in the world. Beset as we are by war, climate change, rising Continue Reading
#Eurovision 2022 – Italian cultural festival TV review: An Astrological Guide For Broken Hearts / Guida astrologica per cuori infranti (S1 & 2)
The recipe for the average romantic comedy is relatively simple. Two people who meet-cute in the most magical or banal of circumstances whereby an immediate, irresistible connection is sparked, one which cannot, of course, be given into because of one major obstacle, or several, and which after some torturous will-they, Continue Reading