SNAPSHOT Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 leaves Litwak’s video arcade behind, venturing into the uncharted, expansive and thrilling world of the internet—which may or may not survive Ralph’s wrecking. Video game bad guy Ralph (voice of John C. Reilly) and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz (voice of Continue Reading
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Phoebe Buffay: The Mystery Ingredient of Friends (video essay)
SNAPSHOT Phoebe is the secret mastermind of the group. She uses her insights about the other characters to pull invisible strings. …Phoebe the puppet master can be a bit of a troublemaker …she has a habit of being loose lipped and even straight-up meddling in her friends personal lives. Continue Reading
Get ready for the judgement day! The Marvellous Mrs Maisel S2 exuberant teaser trailer debuts
The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel leads the pack of the shows I would love to be watching but simply don’t have the time to get to, alas. That’s largely because it sits on its own streaming platform, Amazon, and I’m hardpressed to keep up with two I do have – Continue Reading
Novella review: Manifest Recall by Alan Baxter
There is something brilliantly seductive about a story that grabs you right from the get-go, that immediately and successfully plunges you into a world far removed from your own, making it feel like it’s somewhere with which you’ve always been familiar (and yet not), populated by people who are Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Go travel the world with Disney!
Much as we might wish it to be different, stretching the budget to travelling to every part of the globe just isn’t possible for most of us. So let’s give a Mickey Mouse-ian gloved hand to Gallery Nucleus and Cyclops Prints Works who have taken one of the great attractions, Continue Reading
Book review: Afternoons with Harvey Beam by Carrie Cox
Grief, though intimately personal, can often feel like a very public weapon of mass disruption. As the searing loss of saying goodbye to someone, or not in some cases with the grief more for what’s lost than whom, ripples out in an every-widening wave, families, friendship groups and communities Continue Reading
Smallfoot exists suckers! The people … and the film (new trailer)
SNAPSHOT An animated adventure for all ages, with original music and an all-star cast, Smallfoot turns the Bigfoot legend upside down when a bright young Yeti finds something he thought didn’t exist—a human. News of this “smallfoot” brings him fame and a chance with the girl of his dreams. Continue Reading
Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Hank Azaria attest to the genius of Mel Blanc
SNAPSHOT Do you know how hard that is? To do to take your own character, have it imitate another one of your own characters? It’s almost impossible. If you try to combine two voices that you’re doing, you kind of just land in the middle. …we all tried to Continue Reading
Deadpool 2 is yours to own and has an off-the-wall trippy trailer to prove it!
I’m not usually a massive fan of promo videos. They’re usually fairly stock standard, name-rank-serial number kind of affairs that simply let you know something’s available and don’t go much further. And while that’s mighty handy information to have since if you don’t know something’s out there you can’t Continue Reading
Comics review: Misfit City vol. 1
Depending on where and who you are, Cannons Cove is either the site of your greatest, fondest childhood memories or a backwater with little to offer but boring jobs and creative nothingness. For fans of The Gloomies, an iconic film that defined many peoples’ childhoods, including dismissive uber-fans who Continue Reading