(courtesy IMP Awards) How powerful are the stories we tell ourselves, individually and as a society? Pretty damn powerful if Interior Chinatown is to be believed, a streaming show based on Charles Yu’s book of the same name that takes meta (the idea, not the company, thank you) to a Continue Reading
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Left to their own devices … Asterix & Obelix: The Big Fight trailer
(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTIn the midst of the first millennium, Rome is desperate to conquer the last independent village in Gaul — the home of Astérix and Obélix. The secret to the Gauls’ battle superiority is a magic potion, but when the potion master is struck by amnesia, the villagers are Continue Reading
Fire up the streaming algorithm! Two new shows for your viewing delight – The Studio and Government Cheese
(via Shutterstock) The bounty of streaming continues! True, finding the time to watch it all is a challenge – I’m not sure when TV went from escapist fun to a timetabling-intensive pursuit but here we are – but with so many great shows to watch, it’s the kind of challenge Continue Reading
The silly and the serious, the cartoonish and the evil: Doctor Who drops new S2/S15 trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT… [Doctor Who] audiences will join The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) on an epic quest to get Belinda back to Earth. But a mysterious force is stopping their return and the time-traveling TARDIS team must face great dangers, ferocious enemies and wilder terrors Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #121: Jamie xx, MØ, Kesha, Lady Gaga and Rae Morris + Eurovision 2025 update
(via Shutterstock) So much good music, and it seems often, so little time to listen to it all. Thankfully thought in a world awash with artists and songs, some do make it through all the digital white noise and make themselves first known and then welcome, enriching commutes, workdays or Continue Reading
Match of the Day meets Miss Marple: Thoughts on Changing Ends
(courtesy IMDb) Growing up is a challenge at the best of times. But it’s made infinitely more complicated when you don’t exactly fit the very narrow mold of acceptability that society has laid down and you discover in the midst of all the chaos of getting older, that you’re not Continue Reading
“We’re in a war… you want to fight, or you want to win?” Andor drops trailer for its much-awaited second season
(courtesy IMP Awards) While Season 1 followed Cassian’s reluctant journey from cynical nobody to revolutionary volunteer, the long-awaited conclusion in Andor Season 2 will see the characters and their relationships intensify as the horizon of war draws near and Cassian becomes a key player in the Rebel Alliance. Everyone will Continue Reading
The new face of investigation: Thoughts on High Potential (S1, E1-4)
(courtesy IMP Awards) TV should be, in a perfect world, one of those leisure pursuit that doesn’t demand a lot of you. It is, after all, something that you do to escape the pressures of everyday living; but in recent years, with the rise of a wealth of brilliantly produced Continue Reading
Can the end of things also be its beginning? Thoughts on Earth Abides (season 1)
(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s become a well-worn pattern in apocalyptic storytelling to portray the end of the world as a one-way, cataclysmic slide into oblivion for good old Homo Sapiens. Whether it’s alien invasion or zombies or a pandemic, humanity is knocked down and comprehensively so, and if it does Continue Reading
Can you move on eventually? Shrinking S2 wrap-up review
By the time many of us reach the confusingly contradictory, dark and difficult, joyful and not messy wilds of unpredictable adulthood, we have been well and truly disabused of the notion that life is always going to be a smooth and easy ride. With that warm and cosy slice of Continue Reading