SNAPSHOTBookish introvert Ellie Chu (Leah Lewis) is perfectly content with her life: watching old movies with her widowed father and ghostwriting papers for her high school classmates to help pay the bills. But her side gig turns personal when lovelorn jock Paul Munsky (Daniel Diemer) hires her to craft love Continue Reading
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Magic behind the scenes: The Mandalorian comes to Disney Gallery
SNAPSHOTTitled Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian, the show is billed as “an unprecedented look at the making of the series … each chapter explores a different facet of the first live-action Star Wars television show through interviews, never-before-seen footage, and roundtable conversations hosted by [executive producer] Jon Favreau. Topics this season Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2020: Week 4 – Albania, Armenia, Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark
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
When life manically defies expectations: Thoughts on I am Not Okay With this
There is nothing new under the mutant superhero sun … or is there? It appears that in a world where you might think X-Men, Legion, The Gifted and even The Incredibles and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have said all there is said about diverging away from the evolutionary mainstream (yes, Continue Reading
SXSW 2020 may not have happened in the real world but you can catch it in the virtual
Many are the events that have fallen to the remorselessness of COVID-19. Keep track of them has become almost impossible unless, you assume as many people have that events are cancelled unless advertised otherwise. While I have yet to make to a South by Southwest event, held each year in Continue Reading
Comics review: Star Trek: Picard—Countdown
It is a strategy of which, I’m sure, even the legendary Picard himself would approve. A man who happily mixed calculated insight and intuition, compassion and tenacity, whit and whimsy and steely-eyed resolved, Picard, as played by Patrick Stewart in Star Trek: The Next Generation, subsequent movies and recently to Continue Reading
Love, death and the sins of the past: Thoughts on Carnival Row (season 1)
For all of its rich promise and bright, shining possibility, humanity is, by and large, a very dark and unenvious proposition as a species. While it is tempting to think of us in glowingly positive terms, something that the likes of Disney, Hallmark and just about every romantic genre would Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2020: Week 3 – Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine
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
The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is coming back to Netflix in all-new special
SNAPSHOT“The story follows the show’s star, plus Burgess’ Titus, Jane Krakowski’s Jacqueline, and Carol Kane’s Lillian, on their quest to track and take down the man who held Kimmy captive in a bunker for 15 years (played by returning guest star Jon Hamm). ‘Kimmy always wants to right a wrong, Continue Reading
It’s okay to cry Marge and Tina: Tim Brooke-Taylor (The Goodies) dies of COVID-19
It is always desperately sad to learn of the death of a performer who formed such an essential part of your childhood. The death of Tim Brooke-Taylor, one third of the legendary 1970s British comedy act The Goodies, from COVID-19 is a body blow, coming far too close to that Continue Reading