SNAPSHOTZootopia+ heads back to the fast-paced mammal metropolis of Zootopia in a short-form streaming series that dives deeper into the lives of some of the Oscar-winning movie’s most intriguing residents, including: Fru Fru, the fashion-forward arctic shrew; ZPD dispatcher Clawhauser, the sweet-toothed cheetah; and Flash, the smiling sloth who’s full Continue Reading
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A comeback that’s long overdue: Thoughts on Blockbuster
Workplace comedies are a tale as old as time. Well, as old as TV anyway which embraced the idea of humour derived from banal everyday work environments – the “sit” to the “com” – pretty much from the get-go, realising that in all that wage-earning ordinariness was an hilarity-inducing mix Continue Reading
An ever-growing pushback – on both sides … Thoughts on Andor (S1, E7-9 review)
As a people, we are in love with the idealism of taking a stand against something. In the hallowed, lofty part of our minds where noble intent and purity of belief exist, there dwells an incorruptible part of us that sees the world in the possible and the hopeful, that Continue Reading
Two terrifically tantalising TV trailers: 1899 and Poker Face
Yes, we have potential viewing schedules of existing and up-and-coming shows that are the televisual equivalent of To Be Read piles so high and tottering that they will likely fall and crush us one day. True, we need spreadsheets to keep track of what we’re watching/long to watch and we Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: Cover reveal for J. S. Dewes’ next novel Rubicon + trailer released for The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
There’s always a lot going on in the publishing world with books arriving on a happy tsunami of reading possibilities and those same books, if the author is lucky (and with the ravenous maw of streaming services these days, more are being offered adaptation deals), finding their way to a Continue Reading
Christmas trailers Ho Ho Ho! Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special + The Santa Clauses
My heart is glad! It really is beginning to look a LOT like Christmas as trailers begin to drop like snow upon a traditional festive scene and we get to see all the new Christmas shows that will be joining old classic favourites in our viewing schedule. Of course, until Continue Reading
Great good done and terrible evil unleashed: The Lord of the Rings – The Rings of Power (S1, E6-8 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND GOOD GIANTS, DISGUISED EVIL AND FALLIBLE BEINGS … In our modern world where many, thought not all, have been quite used to the fact that humanity comes in all shades of complicated greys, and not just glaring black and white, the world of Tolkien is one Continue Reading
“You’re inside my house?!” Jinkies it’s a teaser trailer for Velma
SNAPSHOTVelma is an adult animated comedy series telling the origin story of Velma Dinkley, the unsung and under appreciated brains of the Scooby-Doo Mystery Inc. gang. This original and humorous spin unmasks the complex and colorful past of one of America’s most beloved mystery solvers. (official synopsis via Collider) Much Continue Reading
The rebellion gathers pace: Andor (S1, E4-6 review)
There is a tendency, an understandable one it should be added, to view insurgencies against tyranny and authoritarianism as wholly noble and heroic. That they are noble and heroic goes without saying – you cannot take on a fight of such gargantuan, near impossible-to-win proportions and not possess impressive quantities Continue Reading
“Never a dull moment!” Star Trek Discovery S5 sets off on an epic galactic search (NYCC22 trailer)
SNAPSHOTThe New York Comic Con 2022 Star Trek Universe audience got an action-packed first look at Star Trek: Discovery Season 5. Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), Saru (Doug Jones), Tilly (Mary Wiseman), and the rest of the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery return for an epic new season. (courtesy Paramount Plus YouTube) Continue Reading