(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s become a well-worn pattern in apocalyptic storytelling to portray the end of the world as a one-way, cataclysmic slide into oblivion for good old Homo Sapiens. Whether it’s alien invasion or zombies or a pandemic, humanity is knocked down and comprehensively so, and if it does Continue Reading
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A revolution begins … Thoughts on Silo season 2
(courtesy IMP Awards) Humanity has always been defined by an exuberant need to LIVE. Not just get by nor survive but to LIVE, to revel in possibility and promise and to explore all the amazing ways we can express our innate curiosity, passion and vivacious fascination with life. But what Continue Reading
“No matter what happens, you are all winners!” Win or Lose debuts official full trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTWin or Lose follows a co-ed middle school softball team called the Pickles in the week leading up to their big championship game. Each 20-minute episode takes the same events from one different member of the Pickles and their perspective as the game approaches, such as players, Continue Reading
Sometimes adventure isn’t all it’s cracked up to be … thoughts on Star Wars: Skeleton Crew S2 (E3-8)
(courtesy IMP Awards) One of the things that has always about Star Wars, from the moment this reviewer saw A New Hope (or just Star Wars as it was then) in a cinema in 1977 right up until now is its capacity for no holds barred adventuring. As Luke Skywalker Continue Reading
Can you move on eventually? Shrinking S2 wrap-up review
By the time many of us reach the confusingly contradictory, dark and difficult, joyful and not messy wilds of unpredictable adulthood, we have been well and truly disabused of the notion that life is always going to be a smooth and easy ride. With that warm and cosy slice of Continue Reading
Goodbye Star Trek – Lower Decks: Review of S5, E4-10) + thoughts on the series
(courtesy IMP Awards) Saying goodbye to any series you love is always a desperately sad affair. Sure, you could argue, if you’re head was made of Romulan stone, that the end of any series is hardly the end of the world, and yes, in the grand scheme of things, that’s Continue Reading
Stream, stream my televisual dream: Top 25 TV / streaming shows of 2024
(via Shutterstock) In many ways this was a very good year for my consumption of TV/streaming shows. I got to watch a lot more than 2023 but while lists were ticked off and shows enjoyed, it also began to feel, not for the first time, like watching TV is now Continue Reading
On 11th day of Christmas … I watched new The Simpsons festive special “Oh C’mon All Ye Faithful”
(courtesy IMDb (c) Disney+) The Simpsons are known for their irreverence and willingness to skewer all the weird and strange and bombastically expressed pomposities of life. But for all the propensity of the 36-season-long, Matt Groening-created show to parody and satirise and push the critical envelope, it has demonstrated over Continue Reading
How do you make a dream? Find out with four-part limited series from Pixar, Dream Productions
(courtesy IMP Awards) Dream Productions is another triumph for Pixar, an animation powerhouse that knows full well the power of marrying whimsy with emotional impact, of being silly and serious in one flawlessly execute package. Position as an interquel, and yes, apparently it is a word, the four-part miniseries, developed Continue Reading
First two sci-fi episodes: Reviews of Skeleton Crew season 1 (E1-2), and Silo season 2 (E1-2)
(via Shutterstock) Skeleton Crew S1 (courtesy IMP Awards) Star Wars has always been about good old fashioned adventure and fun this long-time watcher of the franchise. Ever since I sat down with my mum back in 1977 in a one-screen cinema in the country town near where I lived to Continue Reading