SNAPSHOT Board the Millennium Falcon and journey to a galaxy far, far away in “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” an all-new adventure with the most beloved scoundrel in the galaxy. Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty Continue Reading
Book review: The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak
Ah, the endlessly expansive possibilities of youth! There are a lot of things in our younger years that might make us cringe – the lack of knowledge about life, stunted self-awareness, naive belief in the goodness of others – but there’s one thing that we likely still have a Continue Reading
It’s time to go wembling again! Fraggle Rock comic books return
Fraggle Rock is one of those shows that you sink into with warmth, nostalgia and a comforting sense that, all evidence in the real world to the contrary, everything is going to be all right. The show itself is long over (1983-1987), although not even close to being forgotten, Continue Reading
Movie review: Tomb Raider
As a group, cinematic archaeologists and adventurers of the treasure-hunting variety are not the brightest of people. Sure, they’re brave, intrepid, a little reckless and with chutzpath to burn, but bright? Not so much. Time and again, adventurers like Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander in this iteration), who returns in Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Things go bump in the night in I’m Scared
SNAPSHOT 8-year-old insomniac Ralf warns his little brother Crumbs of all of the dangers that lurk in the shadows, waiting to devour the two of them. (synopsis via YouTube) Be honest – when you were a kid you were convinced there was plenty to be scared of in the Continue Reading
All aboard! What’s happening with Eurovision 2018? (update 2)
Time is tick-tick-tocking on with the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 less than 2 months away! Preparations at the Altice Arena in Lisbon, where Portugal will host its first ever Contest after Salvador Sobral won with the exquisitely-beautiful “Amar pelos dois (Loving For Both of Us)”, are well under way as Continue Reading
How’d they do that? The stop-motion animation puppets of Early Man
SNAPSHOT Set at the dawn of time, when dinosaurs and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of how one plucky caveman unites his tribe against a mighty enemy and saves the day! (synopsis via Coming Soon) I am, and will always be, a fan of Continue Reading
First impressions: Britannia (episodes 1-7)
When first you lay eyes upon Britannia, it’s a little too easy to dismiss it as some kind of charmingly low-rent Game of Thrones, ancient Britain on a budget, populated by drugged-out festival goers purporting to be Druids, Romans wanting to take it all for themselves (and going tripping Continue Reading
Pop Culture Typography: Iconic logos and fonts get a fun musical re-imagining
Ever-more creative and colourful lyric videos have become quite the thing of late for many music artists. Whether as a stop-gap till a live-action clip is filmed or the final promotional product itself, the best lyric videos entrance, entertain and move perfectly in time with the song they’re accompanying. Continue Reading
The body may be cured but is the soul? The Cured asks some hard questions
SNAPSHOT What happens when the undead return to life? In a world ravaged for years by a virus that turns the infected into zombie-like cannibals, a cure is at last found and the wrenching process of reintegrating the survivors back into society begins. Among the formerly afflicted is Senan Continue Reading