As memorable catchphrases go, it’s hard to go past “Who ya gonna call?” which is followed, without usually a second’s hesitation, by “GHOSTBUSTERS!” Such is the heady power of nostalgia for this venerable and much-loved franchise, that simply uttering that single catchphrase or sighting the vivid red and white ghostly Continue Reading
Back to the Upside Down to the power of 4! New posters + release dates for new season of Stranger Things
Every ending has a beginning. In any other context, that might not be the most scintillating of taglines but when it comes to Stranger Things and its fourth much-delayed season (thank you once again COVID but no, thank you), it is the mostb exciting statement of the obvious ever. In Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #61: Genesis Owusu, Dune Rats, Moonchild Sanelly & Sad Night Dynamite, Alewya, Holly Humberstone + Eurovision 2022 update
Music moves you. Maybe it’s the beat or what’s being said or a gloriously good combo of the two but whatever it is that presses your buttons in a good way, it’s true that music makes life a whole lot richer, more thoughtful and way more danceable and alive. These Continue Reading
Movie review: CODA
Why remake a perfectly good, emotionally resonant film in another language just because you can? It is one of the questions for the ages, and usually is succinctly answered by “There really was no need”, something that could well be said about CODA, a remake of the 2014 film La Continue Reading
Book review: How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Whenever we consider what the end of the world might look, or at least the end of the world in the form with which we are most familiar, we think of it in epic, sweeping ways, a period of time writ large with destruction, loss, pain and immeasurable grief. All Continue Reading
All that is old is new again on Tatooine: The Book of Boba Fett
Like any franchise reasonably long in the tooth, in the vanishingly brief, blink-and-you’ll miss it timeframe of pop culture anyway, Star Wars always has to approach any new storytelling vehicles with the mindset of whether they intend to stick to a tried-and-true formula or going sprinting boldly forth (yes, that’s Continue Reading
You can’t control everything: The official trailer + new poster for Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
SNAPSHOT‘The Multiverse is a concept about which we know frighteningly little.’ Following the events of Spider-Man: No Way Home and the first season of Loki, Dr. Stephen Strange’s continuing research on the Time Stone is hindered by a friend-turned-enemy, resulting in Strange unleashing unspeakable evil. Marvel Studios’ Doctor Strange in Continue Reading
Can’t wait to see! Jurassic World: Dominion and The Adam Project
Good lord but I need to escape from reality right now. As the pandemic grinds on and on, and people are either blithely pretending it’s BAU (it’s not – pre-2020 has gone forever, sorry), or carefully stepping out into the “new normal” or choosing to soft lockdown and hide from Continue Reading
Book review: Fancy Meeting You Here by Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus
If you’ve been alive for longer than a day, it will have become dispiritingly obvious that do-overs or second-go-rounds are not exactly thick on the existential ground. Even the much-vaunted concept of closure seems maddeningly elusive much of the time, with mistakes and regrets irreversible and what-ifs purely the stuff Continue Reading
Onward, okay?! Thoughts on Insecure’s fifth and final season
Do we ever really arrive in life? Deep down, we’re all wondering if next week, or next month or even next year will be when we finally, and irrevocably, get all our collective shit together, allowing us to relax, coast and enjoy the fruits of our hard work. But as Continue Reading