SNAPSHOT The Narrow World is the story of a gigantic alien that crashes to Earth and takes up residence in Los Angeles. Contrary to expectations, when the alien is neither hostile towards the tiny humans around it, nor communicative in any way, it falls on the populace to decipher Continue Reading
Colony: “Free Radicals” / “Good Intentions” (S2, E7 & E8 review)
“Either some of us die, or all of us die; you get the honour of deciding which of those it’s going to be. ” (Alan Snyder to Bram) It’s been fairly obvious for some time that the time was coming when people would have to make a choice that Continue Reading
Cookie Monster and the delicious history of cookies #nomnomnom
SNAPSHOT Kids try 100 years of cookies with special guest Cookie Monster including mallomars, sugar cookies, nutter butters, macarons, and more. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) If you wanted to learn everything you could be about the last 100 years of cookies, and why wouldn’t you, then the person to Continue Reading
Book review: A Portable Shelter by Kirsty Logan
All of come to the realisation, at one point or another, that the business of living is not for the fainthearted. What looks from the relatively uncluttered vantage point of childhood to be a straightforward undertaking, soon proves itself to be wildly unpredictable, immensely complicated and prone to as Continue Reading
Fascinating fan theories: How The Walking Dead may end
All good things must come to an end. Even the undead shambling across the decaying remains of civilisation items. But while Robert Kirkman says he knows (of course) how the comic strip/TV series will come to an end, and there is high likelihood they will end in different ways, he Continue Reading
Love is coming to town again on Netflix
SNAPSHOT It’s worth a shot. Mickey and Gus face commitment and all that comes with it as they attempt to bring order to their chaotic lives. (synopsis via Netflix) Falling in love is thrilling. Nerve-wracking, crazy, unsettling, glorious, and if all goes well, something special for the long haul. Continue Reading
It’s a Bright world out there – but not as you know it (teaser trailer)
If you’ve ever watched Lord of the Rings, and if not, why not, explain yourself this instant, you’ll be well aware that in that far off and mystical land, humans, elves, orcs and dwarves all exist together in, well not perfect harmony exactly (that’d be the Disney version folks) Continue Reading
Now this is music #84: Perish, Melvv, Mako & Morgan Page, Jarina De Marco, AOE
One of the great joys of listening to lots of music are the multiple perspectives granted to you by artists who have struggled long and hard with some aspects of life and put their thoughts and heartfelt emotions into their songs. For anyone of us who struggle to make Continue Reading
Weekday pop art: The whimsically beautiful visuals of Legion
One of the most striking things about FX’s new Marvel series Legion, quite apart from its imaginative out-of-the-box storytelling and its intriguing characters, is its strikingly unique visuals. Mixing together a myriad of influences from Wes Anderson’s whimsically quirky rich colour palettes to wacky 1960s films like Yellow Submarine Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: “New Best Friends” / “Hostiles and Calamities” (S7, E10 & E11)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND PEOPLE WHO ARE RATHER TOO INTIMATELY ENGAGED WITH THEIR GARBAGE* This is an apocalyptically Dickensian tales of two episodes. One, “New Best Friends”, played reasonably strongly to The Walking Dead‘s strengths, giving us an interesting character study of how far study of how far Father Continue Reading