(courtesy IMP Awards) While we all want a good laugh from a sitcom – it’s kind of the point right and any sitcom that fails to deliver decent amounts of comedy has no business being labelled as such – what we also want is some sort of connection with the Continue Reading
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She has nowhere to go but up … time to head North of North
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTSiaja (starring Anna Lambe) is a young Inuk mother who dreams of reinventing herself in her tiny Arctic community of Ice Cove. After a spontaneous — and extremely public — exit from her marriage, Siaja goes from a stale but stable life at the side of self-absorbed Continue Reading
Take a special look at the upcoming second series of Andor: A Star Wars Story
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTWhile Season 1 followed Cassian’s reluctant journey from cynical nobody to revolutionary volunteer, the long-awaited conclusion in Andor season 2 will see the characters and their relationships intensify as the horizon of war draws near and Cassian becomes a key player in the Rebel Alliance. Everyone will Continue Reading
Every path has a price: The Last of Us drops a bleak, horror-filled but compelling full trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“You can’t stop this.” After a global pandemic destroys civilization, a hardened survivor takes charge of a 14-year-old girl who may be humanity’s last hope. Five years after the events of the first season, Joel and Ellie are drawn into conflict with each other and a world Continue Reading
Break out of your role: Thoughts on Interior Chinatown
(courtesy IMP Awards) How powerful are the stories we tell ourselves, individually and as a society? Pretty damn powerful if Interior Chinatown is to be believed, a streaming show based on Charles Yu’s book of the same name that takes meta (the idea, not the company, thank you) to a Continue Reading
Left to their own devices … Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight trailer
(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTIn the midst of the first millennium, Rome is desperate to conquer the last independent village in Gaul — the home of Astérix and Obélix. The secret to the Gauls’ battle superiority is a magic potion, but when the potion master is struck by amnesia, the villagers are Continue Reading
Fire up the streaming algorithm! Two new shows for your viewing delight – The Studio and Government Cheese
(via Shutterstock) The bounty of streaming continues! True, finding the time to watch it all is a challenge – I’m not sure when TV went from escapist fun to a timetabling-intensive pursuit but here we are – but with so many great shows to watch, it’s the kind of challenge Continue Reading
The silly and the serious, the cartoonish and the evil: Doctor Who drops new S2/S15 trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT… [Doctor Who] audiences will join The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) on an epic quest to get Belinda back to Earth. But a mysterious force is stopping their return and the time-traveling TARDIS team must face great dangers, ferocious enemies and wilder terrors Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #121: Jamie xx, MØ, Kesha, Lady Gaga and Rae Morris + Eurovision 2025 update
(via Shutterstock) So much good music, and it seems often, so little time to listen to it all. Thankfully thought in a world awash with artists and songs, some do make it through all the digital white noise and make themselves first known and then welcome, enriching commutes, workdays or Continue Reading
Match of the Day meets Miss Marple: Thoughts on Changing Ends
(courtesy IMDb) Growing up is a challenge at the best of times. But it’s made infinitely more complicated when you don’t exactly fit the very narrow mold of acceptability that society has laid down and you discover in the midst of all the chaos of getting older, that you’re not Continue Reading