It was those Swedish musical poets who once sagely observed, somewhere around 1973, that “Love Isn’t Easy But it Sure is Hard Enough”. with the song going on to observe that: “We gotta have patience, love isn’t just a sensationSome of the time it gets roughLove isn’t easy but it Continue Reading
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So no one told you the galaxy was gonna be this way – Star Trek: Deep Space Nine meets Friends
Yes, someone has mixed the highly memorable and damn neat iconic Friends theme song with yet another TV show, in this case, shots of the main characters from my favourite Star Trek show Deep Space Nine, and yes you could wonder if it’s worth another trip down this particular mash-up Continue Reading
Fun weekend mash-ups: The imaginative cleverness of Frasier looking at video games
I love people who come up with left-of-centre, out-of-the-box way of reinterpreting a much loved character. It’s a takes a lot of imagination to step away from the known and expected, and it’s apparent that video game designer Eagle McGill from London, profiled in Laughing Squid, has that in spades, Continue Reading
Star Trek Day 2021: Trailers and news and panels … and onwards to the stars and lots of new viewing opportunities!
If ever we needed a time where we could escape to the stars it’s this one. To be fair most of human history – oh, who are we kidding? ALL of it – would likely have benefited from a future in which inclusiveness, diversity and social and economic equality are Continue Reading
His biggest adventures are in his own backyard: Thoughts on Dug Days
There is a great deal to love about Pixar’s 2009 masterpiece Up, which still stands 12 years later as a stellar of example of how big hearted, narratively rich and character-driven animation can be. Chief among its many delights is the character of Dug, voiced by Bob Peterson, a sweetly Continue Reading
Rutherford Falls: a laugh-out-loud funny TV show about colonisation
First published in The Conversation Bronwyn Carlson, Macquarie University In a new series, writers nominate the TV series keeping them entertained during a time of COVID. As the lockdown continues, I find myself looking for Indigenous content to watch on TV to feel a sense of nourishment and joy I Continue Reading
“I just wanna be drama free and happy” – Insecure S5 teaser trailer
SNAPSHOT“According to showrunner Prentice Penny, the final season hinges on one question: ‘If life doesn’t look like how you imagined it, does that mean it’s a success or a failure?’ He spoke to Entertainment Weekly about what that means and how it should carry into Season 5, and it builds Continue Reading
Heroes come in all sizes: Thoughts on the big things happening in Tiny World (season 1)
In a year where the pandemic has somehow managed to get worse, and climate change is making its presence in scarily unprecedented and well ahead of the modelling ways, it can be all too easy to lose hope and think there is nothing good left in the world. But, of Continue Reading
The Flintstones return in the frenetic fun of Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs
SNAPSHOTBest friends Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble are two kids from the town of Bedrock, a modern Stone Age civilization where dinosaurs are domesticated and helpful, including their lovable and loyal pet Dino. But the real ‘yabba dabba doo’ times are had in the open wilderness outside of Bedrock city Continue Reading
Love leads to the strangest places: Thoughts on Schmigadoon!
After 18 months of harrowing, constraining, good mental health-sapping pandemic, it’s a reasonable assumption to make that most people are in need of a good laugh, a warm hug, some schmoozy romantic love and music so buoyantly light you can feel your spirit rise right along with the peppy notes. Continue Reading