SNAPSHOT “Shada” finds the Doctor in Cambridge working alongside companion Romana and retired Time Lord, Professor Chronotis, to defeat the evil alien Skagra who is attempting to steal the secrets to the prison planet, “Shada”. You would be hard pressed to disagree with the fact that Douglas Adams, the Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Things Bad Begun” / “Sleigh Ride” (S3, E13 & E14 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A GREAT BIG HELPING OF PARADISE LOST … Being a doublebanger finale, “Things Bad Begun” / “Sleigh Ride” was always going to be an epic, grand, monstrously big, finish to the exceptionally robust and compelling storytelling of Fear the Walking Dead. And so it proved, Continue Reading
Step into the delightfully raunchy 1950s world of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
SNAPSHOT Miriam “Midge” Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) is a Jewish housewife living in New York City in 1958. Her husband, Joel, is a successful businessman who moonlights as a struggling comedian. Midge supports Joel, providing feedback about his sets, but becomes disillusioned when she discovers that Joel has stolen one Continue Reading
Retro movie review: Wayne’s World
Returning to one of the outstanding movies of your young adulthood is not without some risk. Is it as good as you remember? Have the glasses through you gaze upon it become so deeply and heavily rose-tinted that they filter out even the merest hint of middle-aged criticality? In Continue Reading
1984: A very weird year for Stranger Things
SNAPSHOT Stranger Things season 2 is set a year after Will’s return, and everything seems back to normal… but a darkness lurks just beneath the surface, threatening all of Hawkins. It’s 1984 and the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still reeling from the horrors of the demagorgon and the secrets Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: S1, E3 “Context is for Kings” / E4 “The Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry” review
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND FUNGUS WITH SOME WARP SPEED GRUNT … When most people reach rock bottom, the natural inclination is to immediately seize the first opportunity to get back up the slippery slope of life. But then most people are not Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), most recently seen Continue Reading
All you need is a carrot: What is the hidden meaning of Frozen?
Ha! Think you know what Frozen is all about? Think it’s all about family schisms, unwelcome gifts of the metaphysical kind, estrangement, family, love and redemption? Think again my friends because as Earthling Cinema from the Wisecrack channel on YouTube hilariously and yet with an admirably straight face reveals, Continue Reading
Book review: The Trouble with Henry and Zoe by Andy Jones
If you were to look around the world right now, and to be fair, at any time through history, you would be well justified in concluding that humanity, for the greater part, does not have an expectationally-idealistic bone in its body. From war to famine, disease to relational destructiveness Continue Reading
Read all about it! Pop culture newspaper headlines courtesy of Movie Heds
Pop quiz! What a quick, visual, easy to comprehend expositionary device used in movies, particularly the pre-digital ones? No, not voice-over narration! That is very rarely done well and kinda annoying to boot. I’m referring to the use of news paper front pages, which effectively convey a ton Continue Reading
Now this is upbeat chilled music: Maya Jane Coles, Basenji, Tusks, J.Views, Anna of the North
Life is relentless. It has a momentum that is fierce and uncompromising, racing hand in hand to a future only it seems to know, leaving us hanging on for dear life. Or maybe that’s simply how it often feels. The truth is we do have the power to call Continue Reading