What is the Eurovision Song Contest? Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open Continue Reading
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Torn apart by teeth or bullets: Lose yourself in Fear the Walking Dead season 4
SNAPSHOT In Fear the Walking Dead Season 4 we will see the world of Madison Clark (Kim Dickens) and her family through new eyes — the eyes of Morgan Jones (Lennie James), joining the story from the world of The Walking Dead. The characters’ immediate past mixes with an Continue Reading
Mash-up of #GoT and Monty Python’s Holy Grail sniffs scornfully in your general direction
It goes without saying, but hey, I’m going to say it anyway. Game of Thrones is serious, very, VERY serious. Monty Python, and specifically, The Holy Grail, is not (although, as a satire, it conveys some fairly serious ideas). So then, does combining the two rather disparate approaches to Continue Reading
The present, the future … or both? Can Barry have it all? (trailer)
SNAPSHOT Barry is a dark comedy starring Bill Hader as a depressed, low-rent hitman from the Midwest. Lonely and dissatisfied in his life, he reluctantly travels to Los Angeles to execute a hit on an aspiring actor. Barry follows his “mark” into an acting class and ends up finding Continue Reading
It’s time to go wembling again! Fraggle Rock comic books return
Fraggle Rock is one of those shows that you sink into with warmth, nostalgia and a comforting sense that, all evidence in the real world to the contrary, everything is going to be all right. The show itself is long over (1983-1987), although not even close to being forgotten, Continue Reading
All aboard! What’s happening with Eurovision 2018? (update 2)
Time is tick-tick-tocking on with the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 less than 2 months away! Preparations at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, where Portugal will host its first ever Contest after Salvador Sobral won with the exquisitely-beautiful “Amar pelos dois (Loving For Both of Us)”, are well under way as Continue Reading
First impressions: Britannia (episodes 1-7)
When first you lay eyes upon Britannia, it’s a little too easy to dismiss it as some kind of charmingly low-rent Game of Thrones, ancient Britain on a budget, populated by drugged-out festival goers purporting to be Druids, Romans wanting to take it all for themselves (and going tripping Continue Reading
Pop Culture Typography: Iconic logos and fonts get a fun musical re-imagining
Ever-more creative and colourful lyric videos have become quite the thing of late for many music artists. Whether as a stop-gap till a live-action clip is filmed or the final promotional product itself, the best lyric videos entrance, entertain and move perfectly in time with the song they’re accompanying. Continue Reading
Anyone he wants to be: The amazing chameleon mastery of actor Doug Jones
SNAPSHOT … [Doug Jones] would go on to play lots of characters that rendered him virtually unrecognizable. With job offers flooding in, thanks to word-of-mouth he eventually got a reputation for being not only someone who had a gift for giving life to these strange creature like roles, but Continue Reading
Trees, dancing and the end of everything: Legion debuts season 2 trailer
SNAPSHOT The first full-length trailer for the FX drama’s return sees David (Dan Stevens) coming back from God knows where. Time has clearly gone by for the rest of the Summerland group and things are different. David’s pals have joined forces with their mortal enemies at Division III to Continue Reading