If you read enough dystopian or apocalyptic literature, and this reviewer most certainly does, you will quickly come to appreciate how many possible ways there are in which humanity could, as a species, shuffle off this mortal coil. Numerous they may be but none are likely as poetic in their Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #23: Celeste, Jack Garratt, LOVER, Bearcubs, Joe Hertz + Eurovision 2020 update
It’s Friday! (Yes, I know you know this, but for the sake of a snappy intro, let’s just pretend you’re oblivious to the fact.) After a frantic, crazily-busy week in which you likely haven’t stopped or really haven’t had a moment to yourself, it’s not a bad idea to sit Continue Reading
It’s a whole new World Beyond out there … but this is The Walking Dead so don’t expect a singing princess
SNAPSHOTThe third series in a franchise that includes global hit series The Walking Dead and original spinoff series Fear the Walking Dead will feature two young female protagonists and focus on the first generation to come-of-age in the apocalypse as we know it. Some will become heroes. Some will become Continue Reading
Book review: The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal by Sean Dixon
Book reading is, by and large, a blessedly passive activity. Not so for the members of the Lacuna Cabal Montreal Young Women’s Book Club of Montreal, the heartbeat and narrative core of The Last Days of the Lacuna Cabal by Sean Dixon, who see the appreciation of all literature as Continue Reading
Orogonia: A timelapse journey through the majesty and beauty of Europe’s mountain ranges
SNAPSHOTOrogonia is an award-winning timelapse film by Spanish filmmaker Enrique Pacheco that takes a wondrous journey through the mountains of the European highlands while contemplating their long history. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Encompassing the stunning scenery of seven countries, Orogonia by Spanish filmmaker Enrique Pacheco not only look stunningly beautiful Continue Reading
Star Trek: Picard review: “Stardust City Rag” and “The Impossible Box” (S1, E5 & E6)
One of the things that really strikes you as you watch the grittily-grounded storytelling of Star Trek: Picard is how it is, like Star Trek: Discovery before it, willing to admit that the future may not be as squeaky clean shiny as we’d like to believe. It makes sense – Continue Reading
Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? More episodes now amusingly haunting Boomerang
If you’re keeping count, and why wouldn’t you be, you would be well are that Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? is the thirteenth iteration of the beloved character and his attendant gang of Shaggy, Velma, Daphne and Fred since the franchise launched way back in 1969. While my heart will always Continue Reading
Book review: Maggie’s Going Nowhere by Rose Hartley
There is a universal agreement, the exact origins of which are lost to time, that people born into this world will enjoy a fun-filled childhood full of learning and love, somehow survive the confused indignities of the teenage years before moving onto adulthood where they will get a job, find Continue Reading
Comics review: Pumpkin Heads by Rainbow Rowell & Faith Erin Hicks
The last of anything is a bittersweet thing. As life goes on, you come across more and more last-ofs but though they increase in number, the experiencing of them never really gets any easier. That’s something Deja and Josiah will learn in time but for now the protagonists of Pumpkin Continue Reading
Not everything in life makes sense: The uplifting strangeness of Tales From the Loop
SNAPSHOTInspired by the wondrous paintings of Simon Stålenhag, Tales from the Loop explores the mind-bending adventures of the people who live above the Loop, a machine built to unlock and explore the mysteries of the universe – making things previously relegated to science fiction, possible. In this fantastical mysterious town, Continue Reading