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
Movie review: Everything Everywhere All At Once
In a cinematic age of sequels, prequels and leveraged, synergised and rehashed IP utilisation, it is beyond refreshing and frankly quite exhilarating, to come across a film that is boldly, unapologetically and mind-blowingly, heart-stoppingly and gut-bustingly funny in its originality. Everything Everywhere All At Once, from the inspired and joyously Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: Under Fortunate Stars by Ren Hutchings
SNAPSHOTTwo Ships. One Chance To Save The Future. Fleeing the final days of the generations-long war with the alien Felen, smuggler Jereth Keeven’s freighter the Jonah breaks down in a strange rift in deep space, with little chance of rescue—until they encounter the research vessel Gallion, which claims to be Continue Reading
#Eurovision 2022 – Italian cultural festival music review: Sangiovanni, Fedez + Achille Lauro + Orietta Berti, BLANCO, Colapesce + Dimartino, Capo Plaza
The #1 position of a music chart is always a heady place to occupy. Reaching that coveted spot means lots and lots of people not only love your music but love it enough to stream it, buy it and keep playing it over and over; it makes sense, when selecting Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Marjorie Finnegan, Temporal Criminal by Garth Ennis and Goran Sudžuka
There is a gloriously mischievous energy that tumbles with vivacity and cheekiness through every last frame of Marjorie Finnegan, Temporal Criminal, a graphic novel which imagines with imaginatively unholy glee what might happen if Lara Croft has a few less scruples, a whole lot more je ne sais quoi and Continue Reading
A mini mass of movie trailers: Thor: Love and Thunder, Top Gun: Maverick + Benediction
It’s a tale of two blockbusters and an indie. If you want a snapshot of the diversity of today’s cinema, then this is it; sure blockbusters are like the eighty ton gorilla that seems to cinematically stomp over everything, but the well done ones, and let’s hope these are among Continue Reading
Book review: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
There are a great many novels out there that explore the idea of a multiverse, or at least the idea of alternate realities or time shifts, and which do so in a way that is often imaginative, compelling and fantastically immersively readable. The new novel by Emily St. John Mandel Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The Goat That Ate Time finds there are never enough hours in the day
SNAPSHOTHigh on a hill and somewhat far away, there once lived a goat and he was very hungry. …Henry was well aware of time you see, and frankly that there was never enough of it in his mind to eat all the things he planned and hoped and dreamed of Continue Reading
Movie review: Sonic the Hedgehog 2
As characters go, Sonic the Hedgehog is a big deal. A staple of Sega’s video game portfolio, Sonic is an an anthropomorphically alien blue hedgehog who, after first emerging in 1991, went on to star in countless games for the franchise, earning the company healthy sales and putting the plucky Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: The retold power of myth in Ithaca by Claire North
SNAPSHOTThis is the story of Penelope of Ithaca, famed wife of Odysseus, as it has never been told before. Beyond Ithaca’s shores, the whims of gods dictate the wars of men. But on the isle, it is the choices of the abandoned women—and their goddesses—that will change the course of Continue Reading