If you thought the days of batshit crazy big, bombastic, sanity-chewing blockbuster epics were well behind us, then please think again. Moonfall, steered by the expansively unedited hand of Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, 2012) is gloriously unhinged proof positive that there is a great deal of mortally-imperilled life left in Continue Reading
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Weekday streaming pop art: Character posters for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
SNAPSHOTStar Trek: Strange New Worlds features Anson Mount as Captain Pike alongside Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn who also reprise their Discovery roles as Spock and Number One, a.k.a. Una Chin-Riley, respectively. Filling out the crew of the USS Enterprise are Jess Bush (Skinford) as Nurse Christine Chapel, Celia Rose Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Hell Creek travels to the distant past, dinosaurs hot on the trail
SNAPSHOTHell Creek is a sci-fi horror dinosaur short film that takes place in the Jurassic period. It acts as a prologue to a feature length story that’s centered around the Cretaceous and Hell Creek, Montana. (courtesy YouTube (c) Danny Donahue) We all know intellectually that time travel can be dangerous Continue Reading
When time is broken and reality is screwed: Thoughts on Picard (S2, E 1-5)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND RIFTS IN TIME AND THE SOUL WHERE IT’S DARK, VERY DARK, INDEED … You would scarcely have called Picard season 1 a lighthearted romp in the park, full as it ruminatively was with thoughts on grief, loss, bigotry, hatred and paths not travelled (and profound regret Continue Reading
Happy Easter reading kids! Time to tuck into We’re Going on an Egg Hunt, The Great Eggscape! and Mr. Impossible and the Easter Egg Hunt
Easter is all kinds of colourful, eggs-citing fun! Kids, most of all, love heading out for time with friends and family and embarking on Easter egg hunts which can be quick or slow but which are never ever dull. The theme of these three gorgeous books is how good it Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2022: Week 4 – Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia (semi-final 2, 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
Weekend movie poster art: The trippy character intensity of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
SNAPSHOT“‘The Multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little.’ Following the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home and the first season of Loki, Dr. Stephen Strange’s continuing research on the Time Stone is hindered by a friend-turned-enemy, resulting in Strange unleashing unspeakable evil. Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: The “poetic ferocity” of Annalee Newitz’s The Terraformers
SNAPSHOTDestry is a top network analyst with the Environmental Rescue Team, an ancient organization devoted to preventing ecosystem collapse. On the planet Sask-E, her mission is to terraform an Earthlike world, with the help of her taciturn moose, Whistle. But then she discovers a city that isn’t supposed to exist, Continue Reading
Get ready for Daffy Duck’s Easter Egg-citement!
Quite apart form the puntastic title, which celebrates hilarious misuse of the English language in the service of Easter-y jokes going back eons, Daffy Duck’s Easter Egg-citement is an unmitigated joy to watch because we get to watch the eponymous star of the show characteristically lose his you-know-what in not Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #64: Go_A, MUNA, Kylie Minogue & Gloria Gaynor, The Regrettes, Manila Killa + new ABBA “Waterloo” lyric video
The world is a bleak place right now. What with the nightmarish presence of war, the endless disruption of the pandemic or the prevailing hell of climate change, it’s hard not to feel overwhelmed, exhausted and unsure how to respond to it all. The following five artists don’t claim to Continue Reading