(courtesy IMP Awards) There’s something achingly affecting about the relationship many of us have with the past. Whether it was a sad or happy time, and regardless of where it left us in the present, there’s a certain mourning that takes place, a melancholic nostalgia for what might have been Continue Reading
The tide is turning: First trailer drops for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
(courtesy IMP awards) SNAPSHOTHaving failed to defeat Aquaman the first time, Black Manta, still driven by the need to avenge his father’s death, will stop at nothing to take Aquaman down once & for all. Now Black Manta is more formidable than ever, wielding the power of the mythic Black Continue Reading
Master and apprentice: Star Wars Ahsoka (S1, E 1-5 review)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Stepping into some Star Wars shows, especially if you’re not one of those dedicated fans who has watched all the movie and shows, read all the graphic novels and books and devoured every last canonical morsel, can be more than a little intimidating. There’s a lot of Continue Reading
Book review: The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Konigsberg
(courtesy Arthur A. Levine books) If a book has a quirky title, it’s a better than even bet than this reviewer will pick it up, hold it close and not yield it to anyone, save for the person at the bookstore (you know, because paying for things is good, not Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Astronaut Down by James Patrick and Rubine
(courtesy AFTERSHOCK) Staring down the existential barrel of oblivion as we currently are, thanks to an epidemic, climate change, AI, encroaching fascism and a thousand other malodorous life-ending ailments, we have become well used to storytelling that inhabits a future apocalyptic/dystopian storytelling landscape. Usually these stories operate as a weird Continue Reading
Alone and together: Thoughts on Only Murders in the Building S3, E4-7
(courtesy IMP Awards) One thing that has demarcated this season of Only Murders in the Building from the two that preceded it is how much time our beloved three investigating podcasters have spent apart. In the first three episodes this seemed like a minor but irritating misjudgement, as if the Continue Reading
Movie review: A Brighter Tomorrow (Il sol dell’avvenire)
(courtesy IMDb) It’s all too easy to fall into ruts in life. What seems like the perpetuation of something good and rewarding, the sustaining of ritual and performance which has worked for so many years, suddenly becomes a weight around your neck, or more accurately around the necks of those Continue Reading
Streaming special: Everything Now, The Wonderful World of Henry Sugar, Our Flag Means Death S2, Lessons in Chemistry + Frasier
(via Shutterstock) Gird your loins people because the tsunami of streaming content continues to race towards us at great speed. Getting through it all is likely next-to-near impossible, but while that may be true, this reviewer is going to be giving these five shows a red-hot go because they all Continue Reading
Book review: Viewer Discretion Advised by Angus Stevens
(courtesy Shawline Publishing Group) For something so hyped and lauded and revered, life certainly fails to deliver much of the time on its great promise. We all enter it expecting the absolute best and on an epic scale that defies imagination and hands over the keys to all the good Continue Reading
“They’re coming to get me.” Humanity fights for its existence against future AI in final trailer for The Creator
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“This is a fight for our very existence.” Amid a future sci-fi war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence, Joshua, a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife, is recruited to hunt down and kill the Creator, the elusive architect Continue Reading