(via Shutterstock) San Diego Comic Con is one of the biggest events on the world pop culture calendar. Bestriding the zeitgeist like multi-headed entertainment colossus, SDCC has a ton of news and previews and sets the tone for much of the next year’s releases and buzz. SDCC 2024 was no Continue Reading
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Festive animated Peanuts special: I Want a Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown
(courtesy IMDb) Remember when you were a kid and as Christmas approached, all you wanted, all you could think to ask for from Santa, was one particular toy or thing. You were, in a way only kids can ask for, obsessed, and all that mattered was getting that present and Continue Reading
It ends where it all began: Thoughts on Sweet Tooth S3 (the final season)
(courtesy IMP Awards) What a journey this has been! What started as a reasonably small story about a hybrid boy/deer living in the depths of Yellowstone National Park, or really just Yellowstone since civilisational constructs have largely fallen into disuse in just under a decade of apocalyptic decay, has grown Continue Reading
Standing up for who you are and what matters: Thoughts on Sweet Tooth S2
The COVID pandemic gave rise to many a strange dynamic. One of them, and the one that impacted this reviewer most when it came to consuming everything from movies to streaming shows to books, was a willingness to dive into all kinds of plague-related and end of the world-set storytelling; Continue Reading
Star Wars: Acolyte review – what went down in E5 (“Night”), E6 (“Teach/Corrupt”), E7 (“Choice”) and E8 (“The Acolyte”)
(courtesy IMP Awards) If religious dogma and legalistic ideology prove anything, it’s that a good many people like their beliefs neatly binary and plainly explained. They also want to believe, to an almost amusingly delusional degree, that the institutions charged with keeping those beliefs sustained and upheld are perfect and Continue Reading
Back to Point Place: That ’90s Show Part 2 review
(courtesy IMP Awards) Sitcoms are funny things. And we don’t mean in the obvious sense; yes, done well, they should be laughfests that lift the heavy burden of the everyday and leave you feeling like, yes, life’s great dilemmas and problems can be easily solved in just 20 or so Continue Reading
Boldly going where no Starfleet person has gone before … Star Trek: Prodigy S1 and S2
(courtesy IMP Awards) Season 1Thanks to the raw viewing immediacy that streaming offers, it doesn’t take much for any would-be watcher of a series to be left far behind, very quickly. There is, simply out, way more content than there are hours in the waking day, and by a considerable Continue Reading
Fun and darkness in time and space: The cosmic joyride of Doctor Who S14 (review)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Doctor Who S14 aka S2 Do not let the bright and breezy, Roxette-ish tagline on the promo poster fool you! Season 14 of the revived Doctor Who series – also treated as season one or two (honestly who can tell?) for the purposes of the show’s new Continue Reading
One-episode review: Star Wars: Acolyte (S1, E5) and a big Sith reveal!
(courtesy IMP Awards) The storySo that was a LOT! Still on the largely jungle planet of Khofar where the bugs are so big you’d need a lorry full of insect repellent to keep them away, and yes, a lightsaber or two, we witnessed the arrival of Mae’s master who came Continue Reading
Life, love, longing and laughter: Thoughts on Trying (seasons 1 and 2)
(courtesy IMP awards) Season 1If you have met the love of your life, and here’s hoping that’s the case, you will be well acquainted with that delicious feeling you had way back when when they were chattering away and you knew, you just KNEW, that they were The One for Continue Reading