Thor: Ragnarok is, quite simply put, a hoot. Yes, you heard me correctly, A … HOOT. If this quirky little word promising a thousand idiosyncratic absurdities doesn’t sound like the kind of word you would normally associate with an earnest, sprawling Marvel film where good stands gravely against evil Continue Reading
Control your fear: The intriguing mind games of Alien Invasion: S.U.M. 1
SNAPSHOT The film centers on S.U.M.1 (Iwan Rheon, Game of Thrones), a committed young soldier who has lived his whole life underground. He enters a dark and desolate forest, his mission: to keep at bay the Nonesuch, a breed of hostile alien creatures. As reports circulate of frequent, devastating Continue Reading
Comics review: Animosity (issues 1-9) #Halloween
Any way you slice it, and to date it has been sliced more times than a munched orange, the apocalypse is going to be a harrowing, end of-the-world existential nightmare. How can it not be? You’re losing everything, and quite possibly, everyone that matters to you, with all the Continue Reading
The Constellation Chronicle: Go to the dark, creepy reaches of space this #Halloween
It probably hasn’t escaped your notice that it’s almost Halloween. Now you could do what most people do to mark this most spooky of holidays – spray your house with fake cobwebs, stick up a Jack o’ Lantern on your front steps and wait for trick-or-treaters to visit seeking Continue Reading
Movie review: Blade Runner 2049
Viewing the future through the lens of science fiction is often an either/or proposition. You are either regaled with an idealised utopia where want, need and hunger are banished, where humanity has found its zenith and fulfilment its apotheosis; or you are confronted in the most brutal and nihilistic Continue Reading
Stabbity Bunny: A diminutive comic book hero who defies expectations
SNAPSHOT The comic series, Stabbity Bunny, focuses of Grace Lee, a seven-year-old girl destined for incredible things, and Stabbity Bunny, a plush rabbit that has been passed down within the family for nearly 100 years. They live in Holiday, Vermont, a peaceful town filled with quirky, but amazingly good, Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “Choose Your Pain” (S1, E5 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A BIT OF A MUDDY SITUATION … In “Choose Your Pain”, where Captain Lorca (Jason Isaacs), after being unceremoniously kidnapped by L’Rell (Mary Chieffo), finds himself in a Klingon call with a fellow Starfleet abductee, Lt. Ash Tyler (Shazad Latif) and The Original Series rogue, Continue Reading
Want to paint a pumpkin? Bert and Ernie can (bickeringly) help you with that
SNAPSHOT Welcome to Backyard with Bert, a vlog hosted by your favorite Sesame Street duo: Bert and Ernie! In today’s vlog, Bert & Ernie are competing in the Pumpkin Painting Challenge where they’ll have to draw a self-portrait on their pumpkins…blindfolded! (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Ernie and Bert have Continue Reading
The Library is alive! Let the amusing chaotic fun begin … (S4 trailer)
I have longed shows with a quirky, comedic bent that know they’re goofy and over the top and unselfconsciously run with it. Shows like Warehouse 13 and Eureka gave us punchy, emotionally-engaging storytelling and characters you cared about all bedded down in a wildly and colourfully zany premise, and Continue Reading
Book review: Turtles All the Way Down by John Green
We are the products of our life experiences. Even the most empathetic among us is subconsciously influenced by personal worldviews which inform how we interpret everything that anyone says or does to or around us, complicating how we respond to another’s life circumstances that divert greatly from our own. Continue Reading