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 Continue Reading
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Big risks and taxi fares: John Boyega interviewed on The Feed
Go hard or go home is a mantra beloved by many, a rallying cry to give something everything you’ve got or not bother at all. Pretty inspiring stuff right? Well yes, but as John Boyega, star of Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Pacific Rim: Uprising explains with down Continue Reading
Psycho in space: Nightflyers is one ship you don’t want to hitch a ride on
SNAPSHOT Nightflyers follows eight maverick scientists and a powerful telepath who embark on an expedition to the edge of our solar system aboard The Nightflyer – a ship with a small tightknit crew and a reclusive captain – in the hope of making contact with alien life. But when Continue Reading
You DRINK coffee? Amateur! 1967 Cookie Monster EATS the machine that makes it
You can’t miss the fact that Cookie Monster, by sheer dint of name alone, loves cookies. And who can blame him? They’re freaking delicious! But coffee? Or more precisely, coffee machines? In this hilarious IBM promotional film from 1967, Cookie Monster goes to town on a very chatty coffee Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “What’s Your Story?” (S4, E1 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND FRIENDS AND ENEMIES AND FRENEMIES, AND OF COURSE, ZOMBIES … AMC, it turns out, isn’t all that well practised at heeding proverbs. Fair enough in one sense – what was in vogue a couple of millennia ago, so much so that the Bible decided a Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2018: Week 5 – Moldova, Montengero, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia
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 Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The watercolour wonder of Alina Chau
There is an exceptional beauty and gentleness to the extravagantly beautiful work of Alina Chau, an animator with many years experience in the industry who has worked on the likes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Beautiful and gentle it maybe, embodying the loveliest aspects of watercolour work, but Continue Reading
Countdown to new Lost in Space: First 3 eps original 1960s series (review)
Nostalgia is a pretty unreliable lens to look at anything through, prone to rose-coloured distortions, warm-and-fuzzy childhood memories, and a willingness to forgive all kinds of deficiencies in the service of venerating something you love. All of which complicates reviewing a series that came out in the year I Continue Reading
Looking right down the barrel: Colony S3 trailer previews toughest season yet
SNAPSHOT The new season begins six months after the Bowmans’ escape from the Los Angeles bloc as Will (Holloway) and Katie (Callies) struggle to rebuild their family in the world beyond the walls. When their peaceful existence is shattered, they are sent on an odyssey that will finally reveal Continue Reading
Countdown to new Lost in Space: Original comic book series (review)
Pick up any issue of Space Family Robinson Lost in Space, and the first thing you’ll notice beyond the gloriously melodramatic painted covers, is the complete absence of pretty much every character we love in Irwin Allen’s Lost in Space TV series. Where’s Zachary Smith? The Robot? Major Don Continue Reading