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
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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
Something new on Netflix? You don’t know The Half of It
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
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