Unless you are obsessively keeping up with every shred, snippet and morsel of news about the seemingly neverending stream of Star Wars movies these days – not complaining being an old fan from 1977 days but there are, to be fair, many films in the pipeline – you may Continue Reading
There are Aliens Among Us … and so is Torchwood (again)
From the get-go, I loved Torchwood, Russell T. Davies’, sometimes quirky, often harshly emotional, never dull and boring, spin-off from the long-running Doctor Who TV series. Treating dealing with aliens as an almost gladiatorial sports in which the fate of the universe hung in the balance, and death was Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The Looking Planet
SNAPSHOT This CGI 3D Animated Short Film and winner of over 50 film festival jury and audience awards including Best Short Film, Best Sci-Fi Film, Best Animated Film, Best Production Design, Best Visual Effects, and Best Sound Design. During the construction of the universe, a young member of the Continue Reading
El Patito: Sesame Street parodies Despacito in the sweetest Ernie and Rubber Ducky way
Ah ubiquity you are a double-edged sword. In the case of the catchiest song of the US summer, “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi (feat. Daddy Yankee), that means lots of airplay, remixes without count and the constant presence of the song on just about platform imaginable. It also means, Sesame Continue Reading
Movie review: Logan Lucky
If you’re a good law-abiding member of society, and let’s face it, that’s most of us, there’s a great big give-a-finger-to-the-law visceral thrill in watching people that are not you embark on a life of crime. Much like apocalypse movies (my takeout food is here; now I shall watch Continue Reading
How should Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 have ended? Here’s how!
SNAPSHOT Since it hit theaters we started building this episode. Some How It Should Have Ended’s take longer than others and this one was one of those longer ones. One because there are so many characters in this movie we had to actually cut out some of our ideas. Continue Reading
Ring Ring to The Visitors: My top 50 ABBA songs
Hi everyone! I’m Andrew, and I’ve been an ABBA fan since somewhere around 1975-ish (date is murky – blame my failing memory!). I grew up in a small town, Alstonville, just south of Byron Bay, far enough from major cities to not really be country but so far away Continue Reading
Hello man’s best friend: Go way WAY back with Alpha
SNAPSHOT An epic adventure set in the last Ice Age. Europe, 20,000 years ago. While on his first hunt with his tribe’s most elite group, a young man is injured and left for dead. Awakening to find himself broken and alone — he must learn to survive and navigate Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: “Beyond the Wall” (S7, E6 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A LOVELY RELAXED WALK THROUGH THE SNOW … THEN RUNNING, LOTS OF RUNNING … THEN FIRE … THEN … YOU KNOW, LET’S JUST STAY HOME SHALL WE? With Lee Marvin nowhere in sight and not a samurai to be seen, Jon Snow led six intrepid Continue Reading
Back to a different future: The Jetsons get an emotionally-gritty DC Comics makeover
Following the recent trend to give much-loved Hanna-Barbera a bright, sparkly new leg-up into the current pop culture firmament, which has includes Scooby Doo, Wacky Races and The Flintstones, DC Comics has now turned its attention to The Jetsons. Presented at the time as the future equivalent of The Continue Reading