SNAPSHOTA decorated pilot with dreams of running the Air Force, four-star general Mark R. Naird (Steve Carell) is thrown for a loop when he finds himself tapped to lead the newly formed sixth branch of the US Armed Forces: Space Force. Skeptical but dedicated, Mark uproots his family and moves Continue Reading
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High-key nerds, low-key virgins: Thoughts on Never Have I Ever
If you were judge Never Have I Ever on its appealing trailer alone, you might be tempted to think it’s yet another in a long line of quirky coming-of-age Netflix tales with preternaturally articulate teens, great big perplexing growing up life issues and a beguiling mix of quirky humour and Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2020: Week 6 – Moldova, Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Switzerland
This is normally how I begin these review posts … 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 Continue Reading
Not Bermuda or Jamaica: Netflix wants to take you out of orbit to Space Force
“[Space Force] on a four-star general who has been tapped to run Space Force, the new branch of the U.S. military, which is similar to the ambitious dream that President Donald Trump announced in 2018. Carell stars as Gen. Mark R. Naird, who has relocated to a secret Colorado base Continue Reading
The painful and liberating rebuilding of who you are: Thoughts on Unorthodox
People, for the most part, love rituals. They provide certainty and comfort, an added sense of richness to day-to-day life and a feeling that you are part of something much bigger than yourself. That is, of course, when they function as intended, which is as outward expressions or affirmations of Continue Reading
What makes Chewbacca tick? Looper entertainingly explores his backstory this Star Wars Day #Maythe4thBeWithYou
SNAPSHOTWhy is his weapon so different from almost everyone else’s? Why does he talk like that when he clearly understands different languages? Is Chewbacca his actual given name? We took a deep dive into Star Wars lore to find what makes this Wookiee tick. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Poor Chewie. Continue Reading
Do ideals ever really die? Star Trek: Discovery tests this out in season 3
We like think to that ideals are pretty touch and enduring. Sure, they represent the very best of us, which seems to fall prey to very worst of us far more often than we want, but they mean something, they’re inspiring and surely they can last for 930 happily intact? Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2020: Week 5 – Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Iceland, Latvia
This is normally how I begin these review posts … 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 Continue Reading
COVID-19 self-isolation getting you down? Stress not – Kermit the Frog’s is here to sweetly cheer you up
Kermit the Frog has always the Muppet balm for a troubled soul. And it’s not exaggerating things to say that with COVID-19 troubling a great many souls in some fairly big ways, we need someone as kind, insightful, calm and sweet as Kermit (voiced since 2017 by Matt Vogel) now Continue Reading
Getting on with the business of living: After Life S2
If your sole appreciation of British comedian Ricky Gervais is as the gleefully-mischievous, envelope-pushing (really, breaking) host of awards show or star of his brutally honest and very funny stand-up routines, then After Life, the second season of which has just released on Netflix, will likely be quite the revelation Continue Reading