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
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This is not madness: Thoughts on Constellation (S1, E5-8)
(courtesy YouTube (c) AppleTV+) ————— SPOILERS AHEAD !!!!! ————— If there’s one thing Constellation is, it’s fiendishly, mind-bogglingly involved. It’s also darkly and richly poetic, character-rich and trippy as absolute hell but involved … and complicated … and full on to the point where multiple instances of pausing are needed Continue Reading
Your cosmic joyride awaits … Doctor Who drops new trailer and episode titles
SNAPSHOTThe series stars Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor, a new incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in the TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box from the outside. The Fifteenth Doctor was introduced in “The Giggle” (2023) through a Continue Reading
Their sisterhood is about to evolve: Dinosaur drops an hilarious trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTA new comedy series created by Matilda Curtis and Ashley Storrie, Dinosaur follows Nina (Ashley Storrie), an autistic woman in her 30s, who adores living with her sister and best friend, Evie. They have a routine, and they understand each other like no one else could until Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2024: Week 2 – Iceland, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova (Semi final 1, part 2)
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
Destiny awaits: Thoughts on Halo (S2, E6-8)
(courtesy IMP Awards) —————- SPOILERS AHEAD !!!!! ————— Up to this point, Halo has been a relatively straightforward military-intensive drama about two species at war and very much at each other existential necks – humanity on one side and the Covenant on the other side. There were mystical elements to Continue Reading
Things seem to be turning more and more supernatural: Doctor Who trailer for upcoming season
SNAPSHOTThe fourteenth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who is set to premiere on 11 May 2024. It will be the fifth series led by Russell T Davies as head writer and executive producer and the first since his return to the show, having previously worked on Continue Reading
Mini-mass of marvellous trailers: Harold and the Purple Crayon, The Fall Guy, Alien: Romulus, House of the Dragon S2 + Star Trek: Discovery – Season 5 … and Heartstopper S3
(via Shutterstock) Is your streaming and cinematic schedule full to bursting? Then get ready to have it bulging even more dangerously at the seams, with all kinds of great and varied movies and TV shows heading your way. It’s imagination writ large, action everywhere and danger and intrigue around every Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2024: Week 1 – Australia, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Cyprus, Finland (Semi final 1, part 1)
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
I sensed darkness: Trailer drops for Star Wars – The Acolyte
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“In an age of light, a darkness rises…” An investigation into a shocking crime spree pits a respected Jedi Master against a dangerous warrior from his past. As more clues emerge, they travel down a dark path where sinister forces reveal all is not what it seems… Continue Reading