SNAPSHOTMarvel Studios’ Thor: Love and Thunder finds Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on a journey unlike anything he’s ever faced – a quest for inner peace. But his retirement is interrupted by a galactic killer known as Gorr the God Butcher (Christian Bale), who seeks the extinction of the gods. To combat Continue Reading
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Songs, songs and more songs #67: Tove Lo, The Knocks, Khalid, Alesso, Lizzo + Kate Bush goes to #1 thanks to Stranger Things S4a
Music and lyrics go together beautifully. Hardly a seismic statement lyrically to remake history since d’uh of course they do, but there’s something about these five near-perfect songs that remind you how good it is when just-so lyrics meet perfectly-realised music. When that happens, and it’s not always a given, Continue Reading
Book review: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Diving headfirst into a novel that promises escapism writ large is one of the best self-care things you can do for yourself. Most especially when you have an author John Scalzi at the helm who freely admits, with a refreshing honesty that is gloriously uplifting in its intent, that his Continue Reading
Documentary review – Beyond Infinity: Buzz And The Journey To Lightyear
There are so many iconic pop culture characters around that we simply accept as part of the collective furniture that it can sometimes feel as if they have been around forever. They almost feel like they’re alive, they’re so familiar, and while we know rationally they’re not alive and kicking, Continue Reading
There’s more cinematic Paddington coming out way! Third film’s title and director confirmed
With Paddington fresh from sharing a very special, marmalade sandwich-rich moment with the Queen before of the recent Platinum Jubilee concert, it’s exciting to hear that he will be returning to the big screen for a third warmhearted adventure. Titled Paddington in Peru, the new film is set in both Continue Reading
Is our innate humanity a curse or a blessing? Thoughts on Halo (S1, E 6-9)
It’s a question that weighs heavily upon the collective human soul and which is only answered, if it is answered at all, by how full or empty you see your existential glass – is our humanity an energisingly inspirational blessing or is it a curse doomed to limit in ways Continue Reading
Trailers, trailers everywhere! Take a look at Blasted, The School For Good & Evil, The Munsters reboot, Vesper, Black Adam
In his 1798 epic poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge penned the immortal lines – “Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink”, a lamenting of the fact that though you may be apparently surrounded by something, some quirk of circumstance may mean you not able to Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Bubble by Morris-Morgan-Cliff-Reiss
Who says you can’t cross media without leaching the life and fun out of the source and leaving a pale, timid imitation in its wake? Bubble, in all its gloriously colourfully imaginative and sharply satirical is proof positive that you can take a podcast-based audio serial, which played out over Continue Reading
A colourful collection of streaming trailers: 1899, Wednesday, Sweet Tooth (season 2), the Sea Beast and Wendell & Wild
So many streaming platforms … and not a thing to watch? To hear some malcontents on social media that’s precisely the case, but honestly there are so many diverse and amazing programs coming down the pike that it’s hard to see how you could possibly find nothing that interests you. Continue Reading
Book review: The Guncle by Steven Rowley
Healing from grief is a thousand kinds of awful, awkward, strange and desperately, disorientingly uncertain. In a landscape where many of the old certainties of life are gone, and a chaotic jumble of previously unknown feelings and experiences have taken their place, it’s entirely fair to say that there is Continue Reading