Time is tick-tick-tocking on with the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 less than 2 months away! Preparations at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, where Portugal will host its first ever Contest after Salvador Sobral won with the exquisitely-beautiful “Amar pelos dois (Loving For Both of Us)”, are well under way as Continue Reading
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First impressions: Britannia (episodes 1-7)
When first you lay eyes upon Britannia, it’s a little too easy to dismiss it as some kind of charmingly low-rent Game of Thrones, ancient Britain on a budget, populated by drugged-out festival goers purporting to be Druids, Romans wanting to take it all for themselves (and going tripping Continue Reading
Pop Culture Typography: Iconic logos and fonts get a fun musical re-imagining
Ever-more creative and colourful lyric videos have become quite the thing of late for many music artists. Whether as a stop-gap till a live-action clip is filmed or the final promotional product itself, the best lyric videos entrance, entertain and move perfectly in time with the song they’re accompanying. Continue Reading
Anyone he wants to be: The amazing chameleon mastery of actor Doug Jones
SNAPSHOT … [Doug Jones] would go on to play lots of characters that rendered him virtually unrecognizable. With job offers flooding in, thanks to word-of-mouth he eventually got a reputation for being not only someone who had a gift for giving life to these strange creature like roles, but Continue Reading
Trees, dancing and the end of everything: Legion debuts season 2 trailer
SNAPSHOT The first full-length trailer for the FX drama’s return sees David (Dan Stevens) coming back from God knows where. Time has clearly gone by for the rest of the Summerland group and things are different. David’s pals have joined forces with their mortal enemies at Division III to Continue Reading
Why are there so many stairs?! Final Space hilariously asks the important questions
SNAPSHOT The intergalactic escapade follows an astronaut named Gary and his planet-destroying sidekick, Mooncake. Together, the two embark on serialized journeys through space in order to unlock the mystery of where the universe actually ends, and if it actually does exist. (synopsis via Wikipedia) Begone shrivelled carcasses of depression! Continue Reading
The beat goes on: Trolls explodes with season 2 colour and fun
SNAPSHOT The newest season follows Poppy (Amanda Leighton), Branch (Skylar Astin) and the Snack Pack as they live it up with all new glitter-rific festivities and adventures, like taking part in the Annual Party Games, battling in an epic village-wide pillow fight, and rapping in an open mic compliment Continue Reading
Stargate Origins: Episodes 4 & 5 (review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THREE MOONS! COUNT ‘EM – THREE! Ever had those moments when you’re in way over your head, when everything you thought you knew is of little-to-no-use and there are three moons overhead and not one? OK perhaps that last one is a little outside the Continue Reading
Cluck cluck cluck zoom! Blast off with Space Chickens in Space!
Why should pigs have all the fun in space, right? Back in the ’70s, and yes, I remember when it was all on TV, The Muppet Show gave us Pigs in Space! and behold the world was a wondrous, wacky and very funny, over-the-top place. Now lo all these Continue Reading
Farewell to my favourite Interrupting Rabbit: Emma Chamber dies aged 53 #RIP
One of the purest, most lovely memories of my childhood, is watching some of the classic BBC sitcoms of the time such as The Good Life, Dad’s Army and To the Manor Born with my family. Brilliantly-written and supremely well-acted, these sitcoms were also warm, silly and comforting, an entrée Continue Reading