(Photo by FPVmat A on Unsplash) You want music that sounds like it will playing in your head for days, weeks, months, and quite possibly, years? How about if it’s produced by artists with a distinctive look, sound and sense of musically artistically self? Also good right? What about if Continue Reading
Get ready for more paw-esome adventures: The Snoopy Show drops season 3 trailer
(courtesy YouTube (c) AppleTV+) SNAPSHOTThe world’s most famous beagle is back again for his close-up! Dig into new adventures with Snoopy, along with his best pal, Woodstock, and the rest of the Peanuts gang. Produced for Apple TV+ by Peanuts and WildBrain, the series is directed by Rob Boutilier (Snoopy Continue Reading
Book review: The Complicated Calculus (and Cows) of Carl Paulsen by Gary Eloon Peter
(courtesy Goodreads) If you’re not a natural fit for the societal mainstream, it can hard coming to grips with precisely who you are, especially in those pivotal teenage years when defining yourself is pretty much the first order of business. The reason why it’s so hard is that while those Continue Reading
Rock is how they roll: Thoughts on the glorious delights of The Muppets Mayhem
(courtesy IMP Awards) Pretty much from the start of their Jim Henson-crafted existence, the Muppets have occupied a special and enduring place in our hearts. And, it should be noted it’s not simply because they are whimsically, charmingly and hilariously adorable though they most definitely are; it’s also largely down Continue Reading
Weekday character poster pop art: Marvel’s Secret Invasion
(courtesy Marvel.com) SNAPSHOTIn Marvel Studios’ Secret Invasion, set in the present-day MCU, Fury learns of a clandestine invasion of Earth by a faction of shapeshifting Skrulls. Fury joins his allies, including Everett Ross, Maria Hill, and the Skrull Talos, who has made a life for himself on Earth. Together they race against time to thwart Continue Reading
Book review: Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
(courtesy Hachette Australia) One of the great delights of reading, indeed of the consumption of any kind of pop cultured medium, is coming across a story that absolutely reinvents, emboldens and breathtakingly refreshes the genre of which it’s a part. When it happens it constitutes one of those wondrous moments Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: The Creator, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 and Killers of the Flower Moon
(via Shutterstock) It’s almost blockbuster time, people! That time of the year when the movies go BIG based on budgets that are BIG with (hopefully) BIG stories and characters of depth and quality to match. We don’t always get that but a guy can hope, can’t he? Certainly, these three Continue Reading
Eurovision under the shadow of war: how the 2023 contest highlighted humanitarianism, empathy and solidarity
In 2022, Ukraine won the Eurovision Song Contest in a landslide victory. Traditionally, the winner hosts the following year but due to the significant security issues posed by the ongoing war with Russia, Ukraine was unable to host. As the 2022 runners-up, the United Kingdom stepped in to assist with hosting Continue Reading
Movie review: Franky Five Star (German Film Festival)
(courtesy IMDb) Beloved though the established romantic comedy tropes and cliches may be, there is something refreshing about a film that dares to take them all, throw them in the air, and smartly and quirkily rearrange on their way down. A film like Franky Five Star which takes the rom-com Continue Reading
Heroically beyond Gaul: Asterix & Obelix – The Middle Kingdom (L’empire du milieu)
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTPrincess Fu Yi, the only daughter of the Chinese Emperor Han Xuandi, escapes from a rogue prince, Deng Tsin Qin, and flees to Gaul, seeking help from Asterix and Obelix. (courtesy Wikipedia) I can remember exactly when in my long-go childhood that I discovered the comic book Continue Reading