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
Technicolour future adventure: Character posters and teaser for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2
SNAPSHOTThe Strange New Worlds team is already hyping up Season Two. Co-showrunner Akiva Goldsman promises that it will be “bigger and better” than Season One, while his fellow co-showrunner Henry Alonso Myers describes it as “Season One on steroids.” Mount teases that Season Two will take “bigger swings” and explore even more genres than Season One Continue Reading
Book review: The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star (Baby Ganesh Agency book 3) by Vaseem Khan
Centering a mystery series around a retired Mumbai policeman of unimpeachable honesty and integrity whose investigative sidekick happens to be a one-year-old elephant named Ganesh gifted to him by a friend by seem like an impossibly twee basis for some crime solving. But in every book of Vaseem Khan’s read Continue Reading
Flammable or inflammable? Fun teaser trailer drops for post-alien apocalypse show Mulligan
SNAPSHOTFollowing the last living humans who find themselves tasked with rebuilding civilization from scratch, Mulligan features a star-studded cast of comedic actors. Along with producer Fey who voices scientist and single mom Dr. Farrah Braun, Nat Faxon will expand his ventures into voice acting as the titular hero. Additionally, Chrissy Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs 85: Miley Cyrus, Mae Muller, half·alive, Alison Goldfrapp and Birdy
We all need music to make the world go round. Some more than others, of course, but music provides a soundtrack for our lives, an emotional articulation that sometimes we can’t manage on our own, and it often comes with lyrics that hit home in short, sharp three-minute bursts that Continue Reading
Movie review: Rye Lane
How do you deal with the trauma of a messy, romantically-scarring break-up? Cry in a public unisex toilet block in a “private moment” that’s anything but? Break into your boyfriend’s art-riddled apartment to retrieve an LP that you claim has sentimental value? Or try to pretend everything’s okay when it’s Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Love and War by writer Andrew Wheeler, and artists Guillermo Saavedra and Killian Ng
Unrequited love is a terrible thing. But then so is love that is seemingly mutual and then never really goes anywhere, a flicker of romantic hope that holds so much promise but fails to deliver on it, crushing at least one of the people involve who wonders, understandably, again and Continue Reading
Let’s party! Say hello to Blue Beetle
SNAPSHOTRecent college graduate Jaime Reyes returns home full of aspirations for his future, only to find that home is not quite as he left it. As he searches to find his true purpose in the world, fate intervenes when Jaime unexpectedly finds himself in possession of an ancient relic of Continue Reading
Book review: Black Star Renegades by Michael Moreci
Ordinarily, having the fate of the entire galaxy thrust on your unwilling shoulders and having to stand up and fight rather than flee and hide may not seem like a whole lot of fun. Ask Luke, Han and Leia from Star Wars or any of the gang in Guardians of Continue Reading
Sci-fi streaming round-up! The Mandalorian (S3, 3-6) and Picard (S3, E7-8)
The larger-than-life but intensely human stories of humanity out in the wilds of space continue in The Mandalorian season 3 and Star Trek: Picard season 3, both of which prove that whether, it’s a long, long time ago or way out in the future, that humanity will fight hard for Continue Reading