Like any franchise reasonably long in the tooth, in the vanishingly brief, blink-and-you’ll miss it timeframe of pop culture anyway, Star Wars always has to approach any new storytelling vehicles with the mindset of whether they intend to stick to a tried-and-true formula or going sprinting boldly forth (yes, that’s Continue Reading
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You can’t control everything: The official trailer + new poster for Marvel Studios’ 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
Can’t wait to see! Jurassic World: Dominion and The Adam Project
Good lord but I need to escape from reality right now. As the pandemic grinds on and on, and people are either blithely pretending it’s BAU (it’s not – pre-2020 has gone forever, sorry), or carefully stepping out into the “new normal” or choosing to soft lockdown and hide from Continue Reading
Book review: Fancy Meeting You Here by Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus
If you’ve been alive for longer than a day, it will have become dispiritingly obvious that do-overs or second-go-rounds are not exactly thick on the existential ground. Even the much-vaunted concept of closure seems maddeningly elusive much of the time, with mistakes and regrets irreversible and what-ifs purely the stuff Continue Reading
Onward, okay?! Thoughts on Insecure’s fifth and final season
Do we ever really arrive in life? Deep down, we’re all wondering if next week, or next month or even next year will be when we finally, and irrevocably, get all our collective shit together, allowing us to relax, coast and enjoy the fruits of our hard work. But as Continue Reading
Listen to the sound of beauty: A whole world of #Eurovision2022 news!
Just 92 days to the big event itself and as you’d expect, lots and lots and LOTS of news … Before we dive into all the news that is fit to “print”, let’s kick off with the The Eurovision Awards 2021 which pay tribute to everything good about last year’s Continue Reading
Every hero has a beginning … Lightyear debuts an all-new trailer
SNAPSHOTTo infinity and… The sci-fi action-adventure presents the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear—the hero who inspired the toy—introducing the legendary Space Ranger who would win generations of fans. Lightyear is directed by American animation filmmaker Angus MacLane, co-director on Finding Dory, and director of the shorts Toy Story of Continue Reading
Book review: Bluebird by @CielPierlot #spaceopera #gaysinspace
ARC courtesy Angry Robot Books – release date 8 February 2022 in UK and 22 March 2022 in Australia. How can you possibly resist a book which winningly pitches itself as the story of a lesbian gunslinger who fights spies in space? Reader, you cannot, and honestly, why would you Continue Reading
Book review: You People by by Nikita Lalwani
Life can be incredibly, disorientingly and emotionally destructively cruel. That might not be immediately apparent to anyone with a reasonably cushy middle class existence in a plush Western liberal democracy, but for many people the stark, horrifying reality is that their hopes and dreams often take a distant back seat Continue Reading
Time is broken: Picard races to save the future in Picard (season 2)
SNAPSHOTThe second season of the American television series Star Trek: Picard features the character Jean-Luc Picard as he and his companions are trapped in the 21st century when reality is broken by Q as part of the ultimate trial for Picard. They must race against time to save the future Continue Reading