TV

One of the truly great things about the current explosion of TV shows available to watch via streaming, broadcast and turtles acting out plays on the back of giant floating rocks – OK so that was last one isn’t a thing but such as is the multiplicity of options these Continue Reading

SNAPSHOT “Unprecedented in scope and ambition, Our Planet will entertain and captivate a global audience of all ages. More importantly, the series will help start an important conversation about the home we all share at a crucial moment when the world needs to act. Viewers will marvel at the diverse Continue Reading

SNAPSHOTSet in the dark, early days of a zombie apocalypse, Black Summer stars Jaime King as Rose, a mother torn from her daughter who embarks upon a harrowing journey to find her. Thrust alongside a small group of American refugees, these complete strangers must find the strength they need to Continue Reading

Cars good, motorcycles bad. That seems to be the theme of Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch, an animated series from Hanna-Barbera which ran for 13 episodes from September 7, 1974 to November 30, 1974, and featured a land of sentient vehicles where the good guys were the cars and the Continue Reading

I’m betting that the good but traumatised kids of Hawkins, Indiana are the only ones sitting down in their class at the beginning of the school year and dreading the inevitable request from the teacher to write a report about what they did over the summer. While everyone else was Continue Reading

SPOILERS AHEAD … AND GREAT LOSS AND THE SLIGHT HOPE OF SOMETHING TO BE GAINED … It’s tempting to think of any great ideal of having few to no rough edges; after all, what is the point of all their bright, shiny goodness if ideals are shown to be just Continue Reading

In a very real sense, Insecure, the creation of multi-talented actress/writer/producer/director Issa Rae and Larry Wilmore, has been “glowing up” since the moment of its creation. Beginning life as highly-acclaimed web series, The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl, affectionately referred to by most people as Awkward Black Girl, the series, Continue Reading

SPOILERS AHEAD … AND BLUE SINGING PLANTS AND FAIRLY-INVASIVE THERAPY WITHOUT THE COMFY COUCH … Hands up everyone who loves dredging up really super-traumatic memories? And again, those of you who like doing that in a dank cave-like structure underground on restricted Federation planet Talos IV – the very same Continue Reading

One of the great rewards of getting older, and they are there, creaky body parts and forgetful memory notwithstanding, is the increasing sense that you can do as you please. Of course, you can’t always do that since people weirdly insist on your wearing clothes on public transport and a Continue Reading