There are so many iconic pop culture characters around that we simply accept as part of the collective furniture that it can sometimes feel as if they have been around forever. They almost feel like they’re alive, they’re so familiar, and while we know rationally they’re not alive and kicking, Continue Reading
There’s more cinematic Paddington coming out way! Third film’s title and director confirmed
With Paddington fresh from sharing a very special, marmalade sandwich-rich moment with the Queen before of the recent Platinum Jubilee concert, it’s exciting to hear that he will be returning to the big screen for a third warmhearted adventure. Titled Paddington in Peru, the new film is set in both Continue Reading
Is our innate humanity a curse or a blessing? Thoughts on Halo (S1, E 6-9)
It’s a question that weighs heavily upon the collective human soul and which is only answered, if it is answered at all, by how full or empty you see your existential glass – is our humanity an energisingly inspirational blessing or is it a curse doomed to limit in ways Continue Reading
Trailers, trailers everywhere! Take a look at Blasted, The School For Good & Evil, The Munsters reboot, Vesper, Black Adam
In his 1798 epic poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge penned the immortal lines – “Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink”, a lamenting of the fact that though you may be apparently surrounded by something, some quirk of circumstance may mean you not able to Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Bubble by Morris-Morgan-Cliff-Reiss
Who says you can’t cross media without leaching the life and fun out of the source and leaving a pale, timid imitation in its wake? Bubble, in all its gloriously colourfully imaginative and sharply satirical is proof positive that you can take a podcast-based audio serial, which played out over Continue Reading
A colourful collection of streaming trailers: 1899, Wednesday, Sweet Tooth (season 2), the Sea Beast and Wendell & Wild
So many streaming platforms … and not a thing to watch? To hear some malcontents on social media that’s precisely the case, but honestly there are so many diverse and amazing programs coming down the pike that it’s hard to see how you could possibly find nothing that interests you. Continue Reading
Book review: The Guncle by Steven Rowley
Healing from grief is a thousand kinds of awful, awkward, strange and desperately, disorientingly uncertain. In a landscape where many of the old certainties of life are gone, and a chaotic jumble of previously unknown feelings and experiences have taken their place, it’s entirely fair to say that there is Continue Reading
Weekend poster pop art: Meet (sort of) some of the characters from Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
SNAPSHOTThis epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, and will take viewers back to an era in which great powers were forged, kingdoms rose to glory and fell to ruin, unlikely heroes were tested, hope hung Continue Reading
Life a little too ordinary? Then get ready to journey to Disney’s Strange World where nothing is as it appears
SNAPSHOTTravel past space and time to a place of infinite mystery… Jake Gyllenhaal lends his voice to Searcher Clade, the son of a steadfast explorer. The original action-adventure journeys deep into an uncharted and treacherous land where fantastical creatures await the legendary Clades, a family of explorers whose differences threaten Continue Reading
The frontier awaits: Thoughts on Strange New Worlds (S1, E 1-5)
It is a rare, rare thing indeed, especially in an age of multitudinous streaming abundance where derivative ideas and leveraged brands are everywhere like rabbits in plague numbers, to find a new show that feels like a freaking breath of fresh air. It’s even more remarkable when said show, in Continue Reading