SNAPSHOT The Church of the Outsiders believe that mankind is about to evolve, to reach out into the stars. Owen Harper believes that Torchwood has to do whatever it takes to stop them. (synopsis via Big Finish) It’s been awhile (10 years in fact) since the original Torchwood team Continue Reading
Magic in the everyday: THE MA(D)CHINES invests the banal with the wonderful
I’m going to be honest with you – for all my optimism, carpe diem-ness and willingness to see the best in life, there are times, oh lordy there are times, when real life seem considerably less than magical. Getting on and off trains on my daily commute, making breakfast, Continue Reading
Watch out for Siren – You can’t escape her song
SNAPSHOT What if there was something sinister swimming beneath the sea’s surface? In Freeform’s next epic tale, Siren, the coastal town of Bristol Cove, known for its legend of once being home to mermaids, is turned upside down when a mysterious girl (Eline Powell) appears and begins wreaking havoc Continue Reading
Comics review: The Jetsons (issues 1-3)
Most of us will far too young to recall those headily optimistic days when everyone envisaged the future as a time of limitless potential, a paradise-in-waiting given form by flying cars, machines doing all the drudgerous tasks that take us away from the doing the things we love, and Continue Reading
Chilling out – take a nice Slow TV trip on Norway’s snowy railways
There’s no getting around it – life in the 21st century is frenetic and only gathering steam as it powrs along like a bargain hunter at post-Christmas sales. It wasn’t supposed to be like this of course – thanks to the marvels of technological advancement, we were supposed to Continue Reading
Dial it up again! Stargate Origins takes us on a grand new adventure (trailer)
SNAPSHOT In 1939, Professor Paul Langford and his daughter Catherine are still grappling with the mysteries of the ancient relic they discovered in the Egyptian desert more than ten years ago. With war looming in Europe and funding running out, these brilliant minds are approaching their lowest ebb. Little Continue Reading
Book review: The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko by Scott Stambach
We are all, for better or worse, heavily influenced by the environments in which we grow up. Whether we remain captive to those influences is another matter entirely and the subject of an entirely different article possibly; but suffice to say, what happens to us in our formative years Continue Reading
Walk Like a Panther: You shall all be warriors once more!
SNAPSHOT Walk Like A Panther revolves around a group of ’80s wrestlers who are forced to don the lycra one last time when their beloved local pub is threatened by closure. Led by the father-son duo, Mark (Stephen Graham) and Trevor Bolton (Dave Johns), this unlikely bunch of underdog Continue Reading
Now this is music #102: Troye Sivan, Pond, TRACE, Nilüfer Yanya, Frills
Let’s be honest, there’s a lot of follow-the-leader music out there, bereft of distinctive identity, an assembly of parts that belies its lack of one-of-a-kind inspiration. Thankfully there are an awful lot of immensely-talented people out there creating music that is anything but beige and uniformly the same, and Continue Reading
Josh and Scout: The power of animals to save and transform a life
Ask anyone who has ever owned a pet of any stripe and they will tell you that they’re furry/scaly/rodent-y companions play a far bigger role than simply that of an amusing companion. Whether it’s us projecting or not, or anthropomorphising our animal-loving hearts, or the animals are really relating Continue Reading