(via Shutterstock) August is shaping up to be a busy month in streaming land! Ah, what are saying? In the age of digital streaming plenty, every month, week and day is frantic, manic and full-on, ironically turning something that should be, and once was, escapist fun, into something more akin Continue Reading
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No more champagne and the fireworks are through … The Eurovision Song Contest 2024 wrap-up
(courtesy Eurovision.tv (c) Corinne Cumming) We have a winner! Switzerland’s non-binary identifying Nemo took the top prize this year with his empowering song “The Code” in a contest that was, unfortunately, marked as much by controversy as inspiring moments. Nemo romped away with the jury votes with a clear majority Continue Reading
#Eurovision cultural festival 2024 streaming review: Love & Anarchy (Kärlek & anarki) S1
(courtesy IMDb (c) Netflix) Ah but it’s a good and glorious thing to have your expectations thoroughly and robustly thwarted! Especially when it comes to a TV/streaming show such as Love & Anarchy (Kärlek & anarki), a Swedish series which presents itself in its whimsically light and frothy trailer as Continue Reading
Star Wars-n’t? Rebuild the Galaxy – a fun fresh alternative take on that galaxy far, far away …
(courtesy First Showing (c) Disney+) SNAPSHOTLEGO Star Wars: Rebuild the Galaxy is a “four-piece” animated special. The entire Star Wars galaxy gets completely mixed up when an ordinary nerf-herder, Sig Greebling (voiced by Gaten Matarazzo), unearths a powerful artifact called the Cornerstone found within a hidden Jedi temple. He finds Continue Reading
What’s the next stage? Thoughts on The Big Door Prize (S2, E1-4)
(courtesy IMP Awards) It will surprise precisely no one to say that we live in an age where it feels like everything, and we mean everything, is on frantic frenetic, screamingly loud and epic fast-forward draped in garish neon and with a thumping electrobeat pounding out of the speakers. That’s Continue Reading
Something borrowed, something Bluey: why we love a TV wedding (curated article)
(courtesy IMDb (c) Ludo Studio) Article via Liz Giuffre , Senior Lecturer in Communication, University of Technology Sydney via The Conversation There is nothing like a wedding episode. Bluey’s first 28-minute special, “The Sign”, was the ultimate wedding television. Full of family, and family-friendly, the wedding between Bluey’s godmother Frisky Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2024: Week 7 – The Big 6 – France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, UK (Grand final)
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Not the people you thought you knew: Thoughts on Secrets of the Neanderthals
(courtesy IMDb (c) Netflix) Growing up, I remember being fascinated by the idea that there were other human species alive on the Earth, not just well before Homo Sapiens but crossing over with us. At the present time, there are a number of species that have been discovered to have Continue Reading
Sitcom review double: Loot (S2, E1-5) and Not Dead Yet (S2, E1-5)
LOOT (S2, E1-5) It’s a pretty much a given that Maya Rudolph can do no wrong and with stellar writing back her and surrounded by a very talented ensemble cast, she’s one of those performers who is a comedic delight in just about every way possible. In Loot season one Continue Reading
The world deserves a better ending: Thoughts on Fallout
(courtesy IMP Awards) Apocalypses are not generally laugh-out-loud affairs, what with all the death, destruction, end of civilisation hanging over everything and such, and Fallout, based on the role-playing video game of the same name, is not, for the most part an exception. Set roughly two hundred or so years Continue Reading