SNAPSHOTMutts Go Green is a special kids’ collection of the popular comic strip MUTTS, featuring themes of ecology, environmental friendliness, and animal education. This special collection of MUTTS comics for kids includes eco-friendly lessons on how to keep the environment clean and ways to help create a greener future for Continue Reading
“This is my final transmission”: Lost in Space returns soon for a third and final season
SNAPSHOT“From the beginning, we’ve always viewed this particular story of The Robinsons as a trilogy. A three-part epic family adventure with a clear beginning, middle and end.” (Showrunner Zack Estrin) “I mean you know Robinson’s family will go on forever. But the story that we started with a pilot with Continue Reading
Get ready to boldly watch The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek
SNAPSHOT“The series will be released this fall just in time for Star Trek’s 55th anniversary, each episode focuses on a different chapter in the groundbreaking program’s history, ranging from its inception at Lucille Ball’s legendary production company Desilu, to its later iterations Deep Space Nine and Voyager. Interviews with cast, Continue Reading
Book review: Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell
Love, as we know, can be a pretty powerful force. No, we’re not talking about the namby-pamby, floating on a gossamer cloud of pink fluffy nothingness that often obsesses the more romantically-inclined but the muscular, down in the trenches variety driven by searing connection and unyielding commitment that stares down Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #57: Austen, Shallou, Yoste, Skylar Grey, Nina Nesbitt
Life, huh? Honestly, that’s a two-word phrase that has ricocheted through my mind over and over the last 18 months as one life-interrupting curveball after another has come screaming down the existential pike, adding to the already messily complicated business of living with a host of added things that I Continue Reading
A terrific TV trailer double: Insecure (Insecure S5) and House of the Dragon
Ah, who doesn’t love the promise of future TV/streaming? Much like booklovers stockpile more books than they can read in a lifetime – mine will one day be large enough to use as building material for a house – those of who love TV/streaming shows adore the anticipation of shows Continue Reading
Believe: Thoughts on Ted Lasso (season 1)
Being late to a much-loved and eagerly-talked about streaming phenom is a double-edged sword. Yes, you are all but guaranteed that committing to the show will be worth your time since so many people have waxed lyrical and at ardent length about it, and it’s impossible to think that you Continue Reading
Book review: Two Steps Forward by Graeme Simsion & Anne Buist
We talk about “finding yourself” so often these days, it sounds like it’s as simple as sitting somewhere far away from the hustle and bustle of everyday life, grabbing an existential map and going to places in your psyche that had hitherto eluded a visit. It is, of course, a Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Licorice Plaza, Wolf, Minyan
Finding yourself is not an easy undertaking. It doesn’t seem like that necessarily when we’re growing up; we just accept all the slings and arrows of journeying through childhood into adulthood as just the way life is but the truth is, looking back, it takes its toll. Quite how much Continue Reading
Truth does not sit well in the corridors of power: Thoughts on Foundation (episodes 1 -3)
Foundation, based on the iconic series of novel by the legendary Isaac Asimov, is one those televisual moments you experience rather than simply watch. Visually sumptuous, possessed of an expansive, imaginative sensibility and charged with taking 10 episodes to tell its cinematic tale of the rise and fall of power, Continue Reading