Home. For many people, it’s an almost physical concept, an idyll in an often-unwelcoming world where the people who love them and who have their back provide respite from the contrary vicissitudes of life. But for others like Aucklander Alex Preston, the protagonist of Sam Coley’s mesmerisingly-evocative State Highway One, Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The lo-fi sci-fi of Triangulation
SNAPSHOTTriangulation is the story of a man who has a most unusual series of encounters while scouting some triangulation pillars in the British countryside. The short picks up [creator John] Panton’s childhood obsession with triangulation pillars (‘something about them being defunct but previously interconnected stuck with me,’ he told Gizmodo), Continue Reading
Book review: Down Days by Ilze Hugo
What would you do if the world ended … but didn’t quite? How would you handle things if the city you lived in suffered from a pandemic of sorts, one that bore all the hallmarks of the 1962 Tanganyika Laughter Epidemic, a disease which begins with uncontrollable laughter before a Continue Reading
Things get unsettlingly weird in psychological horror I’m Thinking of Ending Things
SNAPSHOTDespite second thoughts about their relationship, a young woman (Jessie Buckley) takes a road trip with her new boyfriend (Jesse Plemons) to his family farm. Trapped at the farm during a snowstorm with Jake’s mother (Toni Collette) and father (David Thewlis), the young woman begins to question the nature of Continue Reading
It’s The Muppet Show opening them from 1976 … without the actual Muppets!
SNAPSHOTA little bit of fun by the crew recorded at the end of the first series/season of The Muppet Show in 1976…The crew/cast includes Peter Harris, Richard Holloway, Jim O’Donnell, Brian Grant, Steve Springford, Jerry Hoare, Phil Hawkes, Gerry Elms, John Rook, Martin Baker, Sue Boyers, Francis Essex, Dennis Bassinger, Continue Reading
All systems go for Star Trek: Lower Decks! The captain even has a super clean chair
SNAPSHOTDeveloped by Emmy Award winner Mike McMahan (Rick and Morty, Solar Opposites), Star Trek: Lower Decks, a new half-hour animated comedy series, focuses on the support crew serving on one of Starfleet’s least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns Mariner, Boimler, Rutherford, and Tendi have to keep up Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #32: Reyko, Jany Green, No Joy, Marshmello, Idolising Nova + Eurovision news
LOVE! It exciting and scary at the beginning, glorious in the middle and poignantly sad at the end (let’s try to avoid that shall we?) but it always, ALWAYS makes for great music. Such as the five songs below, three of which were found by this reviewer thanks to YouTube Continue Reading
Welcome the new guardian of the ocean: Isaura stands ready to fight for the vitality of the underwater world
SNAPSHOT“Isaura is a resilient and resourceful young girl living in a coastal village in Mozambique. After risking her own life to save a turtle, she is rewarded with a powerful and ancient talisman that allows her to breathe underwater and communicate with turtles. As bearer of the talisman, she becomes Continue Reading
Book review: The Sisters Grimm by Menna van Praag
There is a delicious, passionate, unpredictable contrariness at the heart of us all. We may only be dimly aware of it or fully aware of it in all its wildly contradictory glory depending our perceptive abilities and inclination, but our innate humanity, our capacity for good and evil, light and Continue Reading
“Make it so, number one!” Why Patrick Stewart and classical training help when you’re counting 1 to 9, right Count?
Counting from 1 to 9 should be one the easiest things in the world, right? Well, normally, yes, if you’re Sesame Street‘s the Count, who has quite the way with numbers, and has done since his appearance on the show in 1972, but when a rogue One won’t fall into Continue Reading