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Step into your future with the first official trailer for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy + sneak peek at Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S4
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThis thrilling new chapter follows a fresh class of cadets as they train under the watchful, demanding eyes of Starfleet’s finest. Together, they’ll face highs & lows of academy life: forging unbreakable friendships, clashing in explosive rivalries, experiencing first loves, & stepping into their destiny as the Continue Reading
The building always wins … Thoughts on Only Murders in the Building S5 E1-5
(courtesy IMP Awards) As season five dawns, many shows are struggling to remain buoyant, fresh and divertingly interesting, with a significant number succumbing to the inevitable ennui that afflicts many a once vital program. But thanks to its previous insistence on sparkling writing, richly idiosyncratic characterisation and a willingness to Continue Reading
“This is as full a life as any human can live.” The life of a great comedian is explored in John Candy: I Like Me
(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTFrom director Colin Hanks and lifelong John Candy fan Ryan Reynolds comes John Candy: I Like Me, an exploration of the life of the Canadian comedic icon. This comprehensive John Candy film documents his on- and off-camera existence, featuring never-before-seen home videos, intimate access to his family, and Continue Reading
Sci-fi triple: Strange New Worlds S3 E9-10, Foundation S3 E8-10 and Invasion S3 E3-6
(via Shutterstock) STRANGE NEW WORLDS S3 E9-10: “Terrarium” and “New Life and New Civilizations” (courtesy IMP Awards) It’s been a wildly inconsistent season for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, something which has been directly commented upon by co-showrunners Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers who are promising far more consistent Continue Reading
TV trailers triple: Loot S3 and Nobody Wants This S2 + BOOTS
(via Shutterstock) TV aka streaming with a huge dollop of humour is absolutely my jam. While I do appreciate a searing drama, my appetite for it has dropped considerably in the wake of the pandemic, and a remorselessly, overwhelmingly stressful job and so I’ve returned to my great first love Continue Reading
Spooky minds present … Thoughts on Haunted Hotel
(courtesy IMP Awards) It would be fair to say that if you had any choice in the matter, that you would not stay at the Undervale Hotel. Located somewhere in update New York, the short-term lodging at the heart of Matt Roller’s Haunted Hotel should be the establishment of choice Continue Reading
Things seem different … Thoughts on Wednesday season 2 part 2
(courtesy IMP Awards) The Addams Family has always been popular because everyone comes as a unit. They are tight, love each other and have each other’s backs as the members of the one kooky tribe, and while like any loving family, they clash and fracture at times, they always have Continue Reading
Where tyrants spend eternity … thoughts on Foundation S3 (E4-7)
(courtesy AppleTV+) Not surprisingly, given the lavishly rewarding dense text of Isaac Asimov’s series from which this stremaing juggernaut is sourced, there is a LOT going on in Foundation. Not just over the four episodes under discussion here, but in each and every episode which cram so much in that Continue Reading
Sci-fi review double: Invasion S3 (E1-2) and Star Trek Strange New Worlds S3 (E 6-8)
(courtesy IMP awards) INVASION season 2 Episode 1: “The Ones We Leave Behind” When last we visited the blighted citizens of Invasion Earth, the alien mothership had crashed into a mountain range, heroes, U.S. soldier Trevante Cole (Shamier Anderson) and British schoolboy-turned-alien-psychic Caspar Morrow (Billy Barratt) were MIA, presumed dead, Continue Reading