SNAPSHOTDavid Attenborough travels the world from the rainforests of Costa Rica to the snowy Scottish Highlands to reveal the extraordinary and never-before-seen ways animals use color. Using revolutionary camera technology created specifically for this series, viewers will experience how colors invisible to the human eye play a vital role in Continue Reading
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Finding themselves before the truth finds them: Thoughts on Ginny & Georgia
MILD SPOILERS AHEAD … AND MUCH ANGST AND HEIGHTENED LIFE STUFF Ginny & Georgia is, in many salient ways, the anti-Gilmore Girls. This may sound like the obvious comparison to draw since the show is about a mother and daughter who are close in age – Georgia (Brianne Howey) had Continue Reading
Second life art: New York artist explains why he paints pop culture icons into discarded old paintings
SNAPSHOT“It came to me at a thrift store. I wanted to take something that had been forgotten and change it in a way that didn’t affect its aesthetic and to see if that, in and of itself, would make it wanted again.” (artist Dave Pollot via Laughing Squid) Op shops, Continue Reading
There’s a new world coming: Trailer bows for The Irregulars
SNAPSHOTMeet The Irregulars: Bea, Jessie, Billy, Spike and Leo. Join this ragtag gang as they uncover the demonic and mysterious depths of Victorian London alongside the sinister Dr Watson and his enigmatic business partner, Sherlock Holmes. (synopsis via YouTube (c) Netflix) It is getting very crowded in the world of Continue Reading
Fantastic characters and amazing creatures: The many faces of actor Doug Jones
SNAPSHOTDoug Jones is an actor mostly known for portraying inhuman creatures, usually via heavy make-up and/or visual effects in films and television series. He’s also the go-to colossus in the movies of monster king Guillermo del Toro, first appearing in Mimic and later portraying both the Faun and the Pale Continue Reading
No, no, no, no, no … Farewell Trevor Peacock (Vicar of Dibley) who made the negative sound so gloriously, happily positive #RIP
For a man who did nothing but make me laugh, Trevor Peacock, who is best known for playing Jim Trott in The Vicar of Dibley, has certainly left me very sad today. In a cast of superbly talented actors who brought their gloriously well created characters to life with comic Continue Reading
WandaVision: “Previously On” and “The Series Finale” (E1, S8 & S9 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WANDA KNOWS IT — AND SHE FEELS FINE? NOT SO MUCH MAYBE … This is a tale of two WandaVision episodes. In the first, episode 8, “Previously On”, the title of which was a promotional staple of week-to-week episodic TV, Continue Reading
Time for half a zombie: Fear the Walking Dead season 6b trailer
“Death. Destruction. Decay. It’s inevitable.” What a cheery way to begin a trailer for the second half of season six of Fear the Walking Dead which, let’s face it, has been getting darker and darker, rather fittingly for a show set in the zombie apocalypse, since the day it first Continue Reading
Are you taking it seriously … or not? Thoughts on Bonding (season 2)
Figuring out who you are in life is rarely as clear cut and straightforward as we’d like to be. While we dream of moving majestically forward, held head high and a fist full of highly-achieveable dreams in our hands, friends and family happily by our sides and bluebirds, because of Continue Reading
Hello Popular Space Show: The Next Generation! How goes your sci-fi parodying?
SNAPSHOTEvery episode of Popular Space Show: The Next Generation. I can’t believe I shaved my head for this. (synopsis via YouTube) Watching science fiction, even the very best exponents of the genre, does involve a considerable suspension of belief. After all, apart from rovers landing on Mars and probes hurtling Continue Reading