(courtesy IMP Awards) Strange New Worlds (S1, E3) As narrative hooks upon which to hang a compelling story, it’s hard to ho past time travel. All that timey-wimey stuff as David Tennant’s Doctor Who used to cutely remark is so far beyond anything we encounter in the spectacularly ordinariness of Continue Reading
Look! Lots o’ movie trailers: Dune 2, Bank of Dave, Scrapper, Happiness for Beginners and Aristotle & Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
(Photo by Dim Hou on Unsplash) The middle of the year is a busy one for moviegoers. Whether you’re darkening the doors of your favourite cinema complex or flicking on your preferred streaming platform, there’s a lot of cinematic content to get to and a lot of deliciously immersive storytelling Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #89: henri, hemlocke springs, KC Lights + Låpsley, Arty Ziff and Wongo
(via Shutterstock) Get up and dance people! Life may have stomped all over you or you might be so drained and stressed that it’s scarcely conceivable you could move anywhere, especially onto to a dancefloor but these five gloriously good tracks are here as your official Friday reminder that we Continue Reading
Retro movie review: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
(courtesy IMP Awards) While review aggregation sites like Rotten Tomatoes may give Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull a buoyantly healthy 77% rating, there seems to an anecdotal tendency to dismiss the film as the weakest of the four Indy films released before, of course, the just-released Continue Reading
Book review: The Celebrants by Steven Rowley
(courtesy stevenrowley.com) Knowing we are loved is a powerful thing. If we are fortunate enough to have emotionally expressive people in our life, we will know that, deeply and often; but, and all too often this is the case, either through benign neglect or lack of care (usually the former Continue Reading
“We’re back, baby!” Futurama returns with a new poster and trailer … and soon, new episodes!
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“After a brief ten-year hiatus, Futurama has crawled triumphantly from the cryogenic tube, its full original cast and satirical spirit intact. The 10 all-new episodes of season 11 have something for everyone. New viewers will be able to pick up the series from here, while long-time fans Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: We Live (Volume 1) by The Miranda Brothers
(courtesy Aftershock Comics) We live in age of apocalypse – not so much a literal one although the quickening march of climate change and increased geopolitical fractiousness may soon, alarmingly, change that – but a storytelling one with the hopefulness of the post-World War Two having long given up its Continue Reading
Sci-fi review double: Silo (S1, E9) and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (S2, E2)
Silo (S1, E9) BAM! That sound you hear, crashing down with clanging finality through the hundred-plus set of spiral stairs that link the many levels of the eponymous silo, is of an autocratic system finding itself falling apart, one defiant action after another. In the penultimate episode of the Silo‘s Continue Reading
Book review: Orbital by Samantha Harvey
(courtesy Grove Atlantic) Preview copy provided by NetGalley; Orbital releases 2 November 2023. You imagine that orbiting the earth must be something akin to watching the world’s greatest, most expansive documentary unfolding before you (narrated, of course, by Sir David Attenborough because who else would work in this, or any, Continue Reading
Weekend movie character poster art – Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One
Tom Cruise (courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the Continue Reading