SNAPSHOTDisney and Pixar’s Elemental is an all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #84: BENEE, Stace Cadet, Jessie Ware, Jason Mraz + Girli
You need to dance your troubles away! Yes, you do! But don’t take my word for it – there are five artists in this post who have poured their hearts and souls into songs that not only get you off your seat and onto the dancefloor of your choice, even Continue Reading
Boldly going one last time: More thoughts on the final season of Picard (S3, 3-6)
Bringing the old gang back together can often seem like an alluringly romantic idea. And why not? You had fun once, or many times, years back so, of course, you’re going to have fun again because all good things live and endure as long as we will them to, right? Continue Reading
Book review: Under the Fortunate Stars by Ren Hutchings
In a genre of well-mined tropes and clichés (many of them very well done it should be noted), it can be hard to find a truly original story in science fiction. But Ren Hutchings, author of Under Fortunate Stars, has managed it with impressive original and vivacious imagination, delivering one Continue Reading
She wants to talk to you: The quirky wit of Mrs. Davis is coming your way!
SNAPSHOTMrs. Davis is the world’s most powerful Artificial Intelligence. Simone (Betty Gilpin) is the nun devoted to destroying Her. Who ya got? Faith and technology are at odds as a nun confronts a power of artificial intelligence. Mrs. Davis is a streaming series created by writers Tara Hernandez (The Big Continue Reading
Movie review: Living
Life, you may have noticed, doesn’t really come with a manual. We have to make the best of it we can, usually, and for most people, that means putting one foot in front of the other, getting a job, making a family of some kind and finding small moments of Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2023: Week 1 – Azerbaijan, Croatia, Czechia, Finland + Ireland (Semi-final 1, part 1)
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
A mini-mass of movie trailers: You Hurt My Feelings, When Time Got Louder and Rye Lane
Being alive can be hard. It’s better than the alternative, obviously, but it comes with a host of loaded situations, emotional minefields and the gnawing sense that we might not be quite up to the job. Existential imposter syndrome, anyone? In these three films, life goes under the microscope, both Continue Reading
Book review: The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything by Kara Gnodde
Head over heart? Or vice versa? All of us tend to lean one way or the other, not necessarily wholly but to a sufficient enough extent that our decisions on what to do next in life or whom to see pivot on either a calm analysis of the evidence at Continue Reading
Pushing back is the order of the apocalyptic day – first teaser trailer for Sweet Tooth season 2
SNAPSHOTAs a deadly new wave of the Sick bears down, Gus (Christian Convery) and a band of fellow hybrids are held prisoner by General Abbot (Neil Sandilands) and the Last Men. Looking to consolidate power by finding a cure, Abbot uses the children as fodder for the experiments of captive Continue Reading