SPOILERS AHEAD … AND TENSION! OH, THE TENSION! Those deep indentations you might have noticed on the arm of my favourite streaming viewing chair – frankly, if you did notice them, that’s kind of creepy and I’d prefer you don’t sneak into my home unannounced, or frankly, at all (unless Continue Reading
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What We Left Behind: The documentary that gives Deep Space Nine its well-deserved place in the Star Trek sun
SNAPSHOTDeep Space Nine is described as “dark”, “edgy”, and “the black sheep” of the Star Trek family – a show that did not fit in Gene Roddenberry’s vision of the future. 20 years after it left the airwaves, fans all over the world continue to watch Deep Space Nine with Continue Reading
Get ready to face your demons … again: The 100 season 6
For a show addicted to big epic, emotionally-evocative, even the end of season 5 was a pretty big deal for The 100. Just how epic? Why, let’s allow Andy Swift of TVLine to convey just how big a deal that ending was and the emotional effect it had on all Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2019: Week 3 – Poland, Portugal, San Marino, Serbia, Slovenia
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 telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “Through the Valley of Shadows” (S2, E12 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … GROWN BABIES, TIME CRYSTALS AND A TEMPORAL PARTRIDGE IN A PEAR TREE … Well, strike me down, fill me full of nanobots, try to take any sense of freewill and personality (and decent fashion sense) and call me a bio-mechanical life form, Star Trek: Discovery went all Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2019: Week 2 – Finland, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Montenegro
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 telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Zombies! Fear the Walking Dead S5 trailer and The Dead Don’t Die
Zombies aren’t dead! Well, OK yes they are technically but as robustly-rambling leading lights of the pop culture zeitgeist, they are alive and kicking. Take the fact that not only does Fear the Walking Dead have a fifth season coming up on 2 June at 9/8c this year on AMC Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “The Red Angel” / “Perpetual Infinity” (S2, E10 + E11 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … THE IDENTITY OF THE RED ANGEL IS REVEALED AND A RATHER TASTY RECIPE FOR MAC ‘N’ CHEESE … Now that was one impressive reveal! Sherlock Holmes or Agatha Christie herself would have been proud of the way the identity of the Red Angel, the focus of the Continue Reading
The (verified) truth about Captain Marvel’s Carpool Karaoke
If you were say Brie Larson and Samuel L. Jackson, currently wowing audiences in Captain Marvel, which is a damn fine movie, what would you want to add to a heartily-fun session of The Late Late Show with James Corden‘s Carpool Karaoke? Well, besides the music of course which is Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2019: Week 1 – Australia, Belarus, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia
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 telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading