There is, they say, nothing new under the sun. Hyperbolic spin artists may beg to disagreed, seeking to convince that their new x, y or z is totally, excitingly, thrillingly new, but the truth is pretty much everything has been done before by someone somewhere, or usually some when, and Continue Reading
More Wednesday on a Friday! Title sequence plus character posters …
SNAPSHOTA sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ time as a student at Nevermore Academy. Following Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while Continue Reading
Time to head back to our favourite mammal metropolis! Zootopia+ drops trailer
SNAPSHOTZootopia+ heads back to the fast-paced mammal metropolis of Zootopia in a short-form streaming series that dives deeper into the lives of some of the Oscar-winning movie’s most intriguing residents, including: Fru Fru, the fashion-forward arctic shrew; ZPD dispatcher Clawhauser, the sweet-toothed cheetah; and Flash, the smiling sloth who’s full Continue Reading
A comeback that’s long overdue: Thoughts on Blockbuster
Workplace comedies are a tale as old as time. Well, as old as TV anyway which embraced the idea of humour derived from banal everyday work environments – the “sit” to the “com” – pretty much from the get-go, realising that in all that wage-earning ordinariness was an hilarity-inducing mix Continue Reading
Weekday movie poster art: Character images released for Disenchanted
SNAPSHOTIt has been more than ten years since Giselle (Adams) and Robert (Dempsey) wed, but Giselle has grown disillusioned with life in the city, so they move their growing family to the sleepy suburban community of Monroeville in search of a more fairy tale life. Unfortunately, it isn’t the quick Continue Reading
Book review: An A-List For Death by Pamela Hart
In an ordinary everyday world, there are very few people who would say murder is a reassuringly cosy thing. It’s dark, it’s violent and terrible and not the sort of thing you usually want to curl on the couch and read about; though, of course, those who listen to true Continue Reading
Movie review: The Lost King
It’s tempting to think of the chaotic world in which we live, and of the people who inhabit it, both current and historic, in starkly binary terms – good and evil, black and white, laudable and not. It helps us make sense of a messy world and it reassures us Continue Reading
An ever-growing pushback – on both sides … Thoughts on Andor (S1, E7-9 review)
As a people, we are in love with the idealism of taking a stand against something. In the hallowed, lofty part of our minds where noble intent and purity of belief exist, there dwells an incorruptible part of us that sees the world in the possible and the hopeful, that Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: Fractal Noise (a Fractalverse novel) by Christopher Paolini
SNAPSHOTJuly 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the Anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII:a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across the surface to learn who built the hole and Continue Reading
Book review: The Mermaid’s Tale by Lee Wei-Jing
Too often in life we are caught in that precariously unfulfilling place between vaulting hopes and dreams (which we all have whether we admit to them or not) and grimly unadorned reality where disappointment is an all too common presence. While many of us find a way out from this Continue Reading