You know that lovely feeling you get when you connect with old friends you haven’t seen in a while? How that long-established sense of familiarity and intimacy comes rushing near instantly and you find yourself talking as if mere minutes, not months or years have passed, and suddenly it feels Continue Reading
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It’s great up here: Thoughts on The Great North (season 1)
Quirkiness and whimsy are big in modern animation. It makes sense – we’re in a postmodern world where casting an ironic, self-knowing eye on things is prettymuch demanded of everyone and where sincerity is often squeezed out in favour of having a great deal of idiosyncratic fun with something. What Continue Reading
Every body has a secret: Only Murders in the Building (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOTOnly Murders In The Building follows three strangers who share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one as they investigate the mysterious death of a neighbour in their New York City apartment building. (synopsis courtesy TV Blackbox) I read a lot as a kid. Hardly Continue Reading
Love is messy and complicated: Thoughts on Starstruck
Unless you’re heart is made of concrete and you sold you soul to a devil of your choosing at some poorly-chosen time in the past, there’s a pretty good chance you really love, love. You know, romantic love with all its starry-eyed moments, roses and chocolate and trigger-happy arrow-shooting ancient Continue Reading
Still boldly going … new trailers for Star Trek: Lower Decks (season 2) and Star Trek: Prodigy
Here in Sydney, the never-ending Delta variant COVID lockdown now in its fifth week, is set to continue for another four weeks. Which, apart from a growing case of cabin fever, means that we need distractions, and many of them, more than ever before. Thankfully, Star Trek is boldly coming Continue Reading
Why be normal when you can be … Special (season 2 review)
Life is full of choices about all manner of things but one fairly fundamental one, that we often make a decision without any conscious thought, is whether we are going to play it safe or follow our heart. It might seem like something so important that you’d sit down, strategise, Continue Reading
New zombies! Fear the Walking Dead (season 7) and World Beyond (season 2) SDCC 2021 reveals
You have to hand it to The Walking Dead franchise. If it wasn’t bad enough having the dead walking around you and wanting to chow down you at every opportunity, now survivors have to contend with an irradiated wasteland (Fear the Walking Dead) or being stuck between a destroyed home Continue Reading
Enrol today for a brighter future! Sex Education (season 3) wants you to join in the super promo fun
SNAPSHOT“‘There’s a bit of a time-jump since the season two cliffhanger. Otis is back at school but he’s got different things on his plate. He’s grown up a bit and become slightly more sassy. It’s been fun to portray his newfound charisma. Don’t worry, though, he’s still tragically awkward too.’ Continue Reading
A grand whodunnit through time and space: Thoughts on Loki
Character is king, queen, lord, lady and any other top of the heap appellation you might dream up when it comes to storytelling. You can have your bangs and your booms, your breathtaking action sequences with the dial up as high as it’ll go and your full speed ahead, pedal Continue Reading
It’s a Man’s Man’s Man’s World … or is it? The sobering teaser trailer for Y: The Last Man
SNAPSHOTBased on DC Comics’ acclaimed series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, Y: The Last Man traverses a post-apocalyptic world in which a cataclysmic event decimates every mammal with a Y chromosome but for one cisgender man and his pet monkey. The series follows the survivors in this new Continue Reading