While Marvel films and TV shows are almost always universally well done, it can sometimes feel too much like boxes have simply been ticked- very well made boxes it must be said but boxes nonetheless – and often decades-old superhero comic book mythology has been observed and not much more. Continue Reading
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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
#ChristmasInJuly festive animation review: Sonic Christmas Blast
Not being a game player of any kind, this reviewer’s only real contact with Sonic the Hedgehog had been the great pop culture soup in which many of us happily swim these days thanks to the internet where you can be exposed to a huge degree by characters and properties Continue Reading
Head back, waaaay back to Middle-earth: Trailer drops for Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
SNAPSHOTPrime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power brings to screens for the very first time the heroic legends of the fabled Second Age of Middle-earth’s history. This epic drama is set thousands of years before the events of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of Continue Reading
Life, death and scarred humanity: Five Days at Memorial (Apple TV+)
SNAPSHOTFive Days at Memorial chronicles the impact of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath on a local hospital. When the floodwaters rose, power failed, and heat soared, exhausted caregivers at a New Orleans hospital were forced to make decisions that would follow them for years to come. The stacked ensemble cast Continue Reading
Starting over in your 40s: Neil Patrick Harris confronts single gay life at a certain age in Uncoupled
SNAPSHOTMichael Lawson (Neil Patrick Harris) seems to have it all figured out. He’s a successful New York City real estate agent with a great career, a supportive family, close friends, and a loving relationship with his partner of 17 years, Colin (Tuc Watkins). But when Colin unexpectedly moves out on Continue Reading
On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your pain? Thoughts on Baymax!
Baymax, the medical robot that injected a huge amount of heart into 2014’s Big Hero 6, is adorable. He is algorithmically relentless. It makes sense; he’s been programmed to provide the best care possible to those he identifies as being in need and he will do it whether you want Continue Reading
The frontier awaits again: Thoughts on Strange New Worlds (S1, E 6-10)
Anytime you talk about fate, it feels incredibly, oppressively, inescapably final. Some may see a comfort in the surely of preordained circumstance, but for many of us, what we will be, if it not left up to the exciting possibilities of self-determination, feels like a noose around the neck, cuffs Continue Reading
The truth is all in how you frame it: Thoughts on Only Murders in the Building (S2, E1 & 2)
Can murder ever truly be cosy? It appears so; the plethora of murder mysteries where resolution is a near certainty (think any of the Law and Order iterations, from a franchise which at last count had something like 403 different shows on air) or set at a cosy time of Continue Reading
Pulling back the documentary curtain: On location with Prehistoric Planet
SNAPSHOTReal landscapes. Remarkable creatures. An extraordinary team. Watch how the creators of Prehistoric Planet brought this one-of-a-kind documentary to life. (courtesy official Apple TV YouTube Channel) There ae those among us who love to see the curtain pulled back on shows or movies they watch, and those who manifestly do Continue Reading