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
Long live the fighters: Dune 2 debuts new trailer and poster and some damn fine giant worm riding
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThe film will explore the continuing journey of Paul Atreides, now united with the Fremen on Arrakis. A boy becomes the Messiah of nomads on a desert planet that has giant worms that protect a commodity called Spice. Spice changes people into travelers, mystics and madmen. What Continue Reading
Book review: The Unlikely Life of Maisie Meadows by Jenni Keer
When life falls apart in comprehensive fashion around you, it is all too tempting, and understandably so, to throw your hands up in despair, dive beneath the doona (duvet) and not emerge for a good long while all while telling yourself life has nothing to offer anymore. But the 25-year-old Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #86: Catie Turner, Ellie Dixon, Cannons, Cyn, Avalon Emerson
Music that’s just music is good for the soul; great for the soul in fact. But how much better is it when it has some lyrical depth to go along with it too? When artists pour their heart and soul into their songs and offer not just music to move Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: The intertwining tales of Star Wars: Hyperspace Stories (1-4) #MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay
Any journey into the world of Star Wars is a good one. Granted some of the delivery may not be the best at times but overall the franchise has a knack for crafting beguiling tales full of characters who, by virtue of being out in space, have a certain exotically Continue Reading
Well hello Admiral Ackbar! Find out where some of Star Wars most fantastical creatures are born #MayThe4thBeWithYou #StarWarsDay
SNAPSHOTDo you know where Star Wars most Fantastical creatures are born? Well a lot of its weirdest and most wonderful characters come to life in a South London workshop and Gustav Hogan is the man behind them…Gustav’s been making monsters for three decades and he’s taking a look back at his creations. Continue Reading
Movie review: A Good Person
Grief is a greatly misunderstood state of being. In many movies and TV shows, it almost comes across as a minor inconvenience, a speed bump on the freeway of life, which slows you down and interrupts the natural flow of things, and which, once bested or resolved, is left behind Continue Reading
Book review: Emma of 83rd Street by Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding
While we all love an entertaining meet-cute of two people who we know are destined together forever after having never known each other existed – the sense of romantic fate and destiny is palpably sublime and awww-worthy – there’s also something deliciously enticing about a couple who have been friends Continue Reading
Sitcom round-up 3: Schmigadoon! S2 (E1-5) and The Big Door Prize (S1, E5-7)
Schmigadoon! (S2, E1-4) After the frothy small town warmth and romance, with some ne’er-do-well plotting in there too of course, of season one of Schmigadoon! (a delightful send-up of the musical film Brigadoon, the fondly-realised homage to musicals return with a second season that takes a decidedly darker turn. Now Continue Reading
Weekday character poster art: Get to know the fowl cast from Chicken Run – Dawn of the Nugget
SNAPSHOTHaving pulled off a death-defying escape from Tweedy’s English farm, Ginger has finally found her dream – a peaceful island sanctuary for the whole flock, far from the dangers of the human world. When she and Rocky hatch a little girl called Molly, Ginger’s happy ending seems complete. But back Continue Reading