Age should not really be an impediment to doing anything in life. Admittedly infirmity or limitations imposed by advancing years do play a part, but those unavoidable parts of the ageing process aside, if you’re young and vital enough to still carpe diem the hell out of things, including falling Continue Reading
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The rebellion begins: Action-packed new trailer and poster for Star Wars: Andor
SNAPSHOTThe Andor series will explore a new perspective from the Star Wars galaxy, focusing on Cassian Andor’s journey to discover the difference he can make. The series brings forward the tale of the burgeoning rebellion against the Empire and how people and planets became involved. It’s an era filled with Continue Reading
Movie review: Tuesday Club (Tisdagsklubben)
Popular culture is full to the reinventive brim with people forced, through all kinds of coercive circumstance, to remake their lives. Some do it willingly not, many not, but the pattern is always the same – chaos as the old is swept away and the new come crashing in, and Continue Reading
A tantalising ton of trailers: Never Have I Ever (S3), Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, Blonde, Oppenheimer, A League of Their Own
Get set to spend your days and nights watching even more movies and shows – as if you aren’t doing that already! Sleep is for the streaming disinclined, right? – because the trailers keep coming, people! In fact, every single one of these five films and shows is worth the Continue Reading
Movie review: Where the Crawdads Sing
Ah, the perils of adapting a much-loved book which had the graceless audacity to become an international bestseller, thus shining the spotlight even more glaringly onto director Olivia Newman and screenwriter Lucy Alibar’s efforts to turn into what was no doubt expected to be a cinematic triumph. It’s bad enough Continue Reading
10 San Diego Comic-Con 2022 reveals I LOVE: Shazam – Fury of the Gods, She-Hulk, Star Trek: Picard S3, Star Trek: Lower Decks S3, I Am Groot, John Wick 4 + more
San Diego Comic-Con is like Christmas for loves of pop culture. While not everything new is announced or premiered there, it pretty much feels that’s exactly what happens, making it the most wonderful time of the year if you crave trailers and clips and panels of the stars and producers Continue Reading
More #ChristmasInJuly tree decorations: The Mad Hatter (Alice in Wonderland), Bernard (The Rescuers), Pixar’s Pizza Planet truck, Stitch (Lilo and Stitch) + Charlie Brown (Peanuts)
Yes, I am at it again! Adding yet more ornaments to my Christmas in July tree which is, really, just my Easter and Halloween tree pressed into triple duty. The Christmas in July tree is nowhere as lavish as my December efforts but still, it’s fun to bring some of Continue Reading
Adventure awaits … Teaser trailer releases for National Treasure: Edge of History
SNAPSHOTNational Treasure: Edge of History focuses on Jess (Lisette Olivera), a brilliant and resourceful young DREAMer who embarks on the adventure of a lifetime to uncover the truth about her family’s mysterious past and save a lost Pan-American treasure. Olivera stars alongside Zuri Reed as Tasha, Jess’ ride-or-die friend who Continue Reading
Movie review: Falling For Figaro
The idea of following your dream is a beguiling one. After all, who of us hasn’t been stuck in a train on yet another grinding commute to a job we tolerate but don’t love and thought to ourselves “Life would be so much better if only I could …” Dreams Continue Reading
Just how unlucky are you? We find out in the hilarious new trailer for Luck
SNAPSHOTFrom Apple Original Films and Skydance Animation comes the story of Sam Greenfield, the unluckiest person in the world, who when she stumbles into the never-before-seen Land of Luck, sets out on a quest to bring some good luck home for her best friend. But with humans not allowed, her Continue Reading