SNAPSHOTThe Book of Boba Fett, a thrilling Star Wars adventure, finds legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand navigating the Galaxy’s underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate. (official Continue Reading
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Believe again: Thoughts on Ted Lasso (season 2)
If you ask anyone who has been fortunate spend some time in the company of Ted Lasso, both the person and the program, the very first thing pretty much everyone will remark on is how sunny and upbeat the eponymous character is, and how unflappably upbeat he seems to be, Continue Reading
Scary! Right there on my TV … what if Ted Lasso and Sex Education were recut as horror movies?
It is fairly safe to say that Sex Education and Ted Lasso are not horror movies. Anything but in fact – the former is a dramedy that takes a honest and heartwarmingly brutal look at what it is like to come of age, sexually and otherwise, while the latter is Continue Reading
Intimate moments on an epic scale: Thoughts on Invasion (S1, E 1-3)
We have been conditioned over many decades of enrapturing TV and movie storytelling to see alien invasions as a bombastically epic event. And to be fair, they are are to a large extent; you don’t just subsume an entire planet to your own will, using overwhelming amounts of military technology Continue Reading
The musical majesty of Maya and the Three: Listen to ‘The Tecas Ride”
SNAPSHOT“In a fantastical world, where magic turns the world and four kingdoms rule the lands, a brave and rebellious warrior princess named Maya is about to celebrate her fifteenth birthday and coronation. But everything changes when the gods of the underworld arrive and announce that Maya’s life is forfeit to Continue Reading
Star Trek: Lower Decks – thoughts on season 2 (episodes 6-10)
One of the great delights of watching a show in its second season is witnessing how it matures and grows into something that very much keeps the soul of its season one iteration alive and kicking, which is important since that’s why stuck with the show in the first place, Continue Reading
DC Fandome reveals: Aquaman: The Lost Kingdom, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, DC League of SuperPets, Peacemaker
Massve, worldwide virtual launches seem to be all the rage when it comes to promoting upcoming movies, TV shows etc. It’s been propelled along, of course, by COVID, which has made in-person events problematic at best and has forced companies like DC Comics (they announced this event in response to Continue Reading
Olaf Presents: Disney films as you’ve never heard them before
SNAPSHOTIn Olaf Presents, [a series of new animated shorts from Walt Disney Animation Studios], Olaf steps into the spotlight and goes from snowman to showman as he takes on the roles of producer, actor, costumer, and set builder for his unique “retelling” of five favorite Disney animated tales. The charismatic Continue Reading
It’s coming. Be ready. Doctor Who is in a state of Flux in new season
SNAPSHOT“The Thirteenth Doctor will be back in the TARDIS (and on our TVs) really soon! Like, on Halloween. Yes, that’s right, Doctor Who is returning at an unorthodox time for its thirteenth season. It’s the perfect date for those who don’t do gory/horror scary and want to be thrilled with Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: World Beyond – “Konsekans” & “Foothold” (S2, E 1 & 2 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND AUTHORITARIAN DUPLICITY AND SOME VERY MESSY REBELLION … An apocalypse is, by its very nature, a rather destructive and messy affair. It is after all defined as the destruction of the world on a cataclysmic scale and so, in one sense, you can understand why the Continue Reading