The Eurovision Song Contest, as befits a singing competition marking it 65th anniversary this year, is a great many things – gloriously and deliciously over the top, a great promotional vehicle for aspiring singers or those looking to revive their career, as camp as Christmas and a brilliant way to Continue Reading
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#Eurovision 2021 cultural festival: 5 Dutch music artists – Pink Oculus, De Staat, Fatima Yamaha, My Baby, BEA1991
The Eurovision Song Contest 2021 is delivering a ton of great and quirky music in the Netherlands’ city of Rotterdam but what about music made in the country itself? Some of it will be featured during the semi-finals and grand final, a nod to the Eurovision tradition of showcasing the Continue Reading
#Eurovision 2021 cultural festival TV review: Toon (season 1)
If you have ever felt that life is sweeping you fiercely and rapidly along to some great moment that is undeniably wonderful but most definitely not of your choosing, then you will find much with which to identify with the titular protagonist in Toon, a 2016 TV comedy from Dirk Continue Reading
#Eurovision 2021 cultural festival book review: The Pelican by Martin Michael Driessen
It may not be wholly or completely so but there is good case to be made that life is, simply by virtue of its underwhelming existence, more than a little disappointing. Quite what it is most of us are expecting is never really clear but if pushed, there’s a good Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Gert and the Sacred Stones by Marco Rocchi and Francesca Carità
Diving into a fully-realised fantasy world is one of life’s great inestimable pleasures. No matter where you are or what you are doing, escaping into a world such as the one exquisitely and immersively well-realised as the one in Gert and the Sacred Stones by the Italian team writer Marco Continue Reading
Book review: Raft of Stars by Andrew J. Graff
In its usual state of busyness and activity, it is easy to think that your life is exactly where it’s meant to be. After all, who, in the pell-mell rush to get life done ever really has the time to stop and consider what it is they really want from Continue Reading
And the possible Eurovision 2021 winners are … my top 10 picks for semi-finals 1 & 2
In one of the many wonderful scenes that make up 1965’s The Sound of Music, the nuns muse at great musical length in one scene about how exactly you solve a problem like Maria; it seems like an impossible thing to fix, far beyond the reach of even, it seems, Continue Reading
Wocka wocka … BOO! Muppets Haunted Mansion hilariously scaring its way to Halloween
SNAPSHOTDisney announced the special streaming event at the Disney Parks, Experiences, and Products’ “Halfway to Halloween” event with a video starring Gonzo and Pepé the King Prawn. In the special, Gonzo is challenged to spend one daring night in the Haunted Mansion, which fans of Disney Parks will recognize since it’s one of Continue Reading
Book review: Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Is there anything new under the apocalypse meets space opera sun? Why yes there is, in fact, and it’s all thanks to one of the best books to emerge so far this year, Project Hail Mary, courtesy of Andy Weir who is most well known for The Martian, his debut Continue Reading
Comics review: Wicked Epic Adventures (another Wallace the Brave collection) by Will Henry
There is an exuberant delight in every single panel in Wallace the Brave by Will Henry, the pen name of William Henry Wilson who lives with his wife and kids in Jamestown, Rhode Island from which he draws inspiration for the bucolically quirky of Snug Harbor in which the strip Continue Reading