(courtesy First Showing (c) Netflix) Think tightrope walkers have a challenge on their hands? Surely a greater feat is balancing comedy and drama in a show like How to Get to Heaven From Belfast – the title alone is redolent with quirky humour and melancholic longing, all in perfect unison Continue Reading
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Joy to what’s left of the world … Thoughts on Fallout S2
(courtesy IMP Awards) The end of the world is generally considered to be a fairly awful, lawless, dark and terrible place where civility has died and base humanity rules in all its terrible glory. You know it, I know it and Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell), ex-Vault 33 Dweller and unexpected Continue Reading
A tiny ton of TV trailers: Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Lucky + How to Get to Heaven From Belfast
(via Shutterstock) The sheer amount of programs on streaming simultaneously excites and terrifies me. I love the idea of all those amazing stories at my dispersal and how much viewing pleasure they will give me; but I also know that I don’t have the time to get to them all. Continue Reading
Raising the curtain is still all kinds of happily offbeat fun: Thoughts on The Muppet Show special 2026
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT It’s The Muppet Show! Kermit, Miss Piggy and the beloved Muppet gang are back with a brand-new special event. Music, comedy, and a whole lot of chaos are bound to ensue when The Muppets once again take the stage of the original Muppet Theatre with their very special Continue Reading
Where it all ends … thoughts on the final season of Upload
(courtesy IMP Awards) You kind of have to feel sorry for Upload. Created by Greg Daniels (Parks and Recreation), Upload has the misfortune to release right in the middle of the first year of the COVID pandemic, and while that was a boon for many shows, and likely helped some Continue Reading
Funny, tender, goofy – Catherine O’Hara lit up the screen every time she showed up (curated article)
(New York, NY – June 09, 2019: Catherine O’Hara attends the 73rd Annual Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall / via Shutterstock) Article by Ben McCann, Adelaide University (The Conversation) Catherine O’Hara, the beloved actor and comedian who has died aged 71, occupied that rare position in contemporary screen culture: Continue Reading
The mystery is afoot … Thoughts on Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials
(courtesy IMP Awards) In the grand scheme of things that relax, soothe and put your soul at ease, crime, particularly of the murderous variety, should not rate all that highly. Surely after all the murder of someone can not come remotely close to putting anyone into a chilled state? Likely Continue Reading
It’s time to raise the curtain again … trailer lands for The Muppet Show 2026 special
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIt’s time to raise the curtain on The Muppet Show, a highly-anticipated special event with a special guest star and Executive Producer and guest star Seth Rogen. Kermit, Miss Piggy and the beloved Muppet gang are back with a brand-new special event. Music, comedy, and a whole Continue Reading
Step into your future: Thoughts on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy S1, E1-3
(courtesy IMP Awards) There’s a peculiar thing that happens to some people when they love something for a long time. It doesn’t matter if it’s a religion, a food or, as is pertinent here, a TV franchise, what was once fresh, exciting and new for them, a place to explore Continue Reading
“I was born to play this character.” The meta fun of Wonder Man
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTWonder Man is a meta live-action Disney+ series with a “story about acting and the journey of an actor in Hollywood.” Yahya Abdul-Mateen II stars as Simon Williams, a working actor who auditions for the lead role in Wonder Man, an upcoming reboot of a classic Wonder Continue Reading