It is a common lament of Browncoats, those of us who LOVE Firefly, Joss Whedon’s cancelled-far-too-soon sci-fi western – yes the word “LOVE” must be italicised at all times such is our fervour – that there will likely never be another iteration of this wonderful show. Of course, you Continue Reading
Movie review: Love & Friendship
It’s easy to forget when you’re watching the plethora of Jane Austen adaptations in existence, and they are legion and growing like topsy by the second, that the author of Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility was a woman of fierce intelligence, rapier wit and keen satirical inclination. In Continue Reading
You’re eating my nephew! Seth Rogen has fun in a supermarket promoting Sausage Party
SNAPSHOT Sausage Party is a raunchy animated movie about one sausage’s quest to discover the truth about his existence. After falling out of a shopping cart, our hero sausage and his new friends embark on a perilous journey through the supermarket to get back to their aisles before the Continue Reading
Book review: South by Frank Owen
There is no such thing as half an apocalypse. But what if, as South by Frank Owen (a pseudonym for two authors, Diane Awerbuck and Alex Latimer) postulates, you lived in a USA divided between a prosperous, healthy North with all the mod cons of life and an impoverished, Continue Reading
Damn those Bothans! Kylo Ren reacts badly to new Rogue One trailer
So you may have noticed a massive disturbance in the pop culture Force the other day when a new Rogue One: A Star Wars Story trailer dropped. Analysed to an astonishing but very welcome degree – I always applaud those with more Star Wars knowledge than I possess going Continue Reading
This TV show makes me totally Speechless … and yeah, that’s a good thing
SNAPSHOT Maya DiMeo (Minnie Driver) is a mom on a mission who will do anything for her husband Jimmy, her kids Ray, Dylan, and JJ, her eldest son with cerebral palsy. As Maya fights injustices both real and imagined, the family works to make a new home for themselves, Continue Reading
The closest of friends find each other in The Littlest Bigfoot (book trailer)
SNAPSHOT The Littlest Bigfoot follows lonely Alice Mayfair, who is neglected by her parents and sent to a string of boarding schools. She’s self conscious about her body and frizzy hair and wants to find a friend. She does so in kindred spirit, Millie Maximus, a Bigfoot, and fights Continue Reading
12 parsecs or bust! Conan O’Brien auditions a galaxy of comedic talent for young Han Solo
Unless you’ve been living in a galaxy far, far away a long, long time ago, you’ll probably be aware of the fact that Alden Ehrenreich has been chosen to play a younger Han Solo, in one of series of Star Wars films designed to give us some backstory on Continue Reading
The drive to explore: The Search for Earth Proxima speaks to humanity’s need to discover and learn
SNAPSHOT Since astronomers first discovered exoplanets in 1995, we’ve come to learn that there are a staggering amount of planets out there in the universe. But, we have yet to find one that’s habitable, aside from our own. The Search for Earth Proxima is a short documentary about a Continue Reading
Wubba lubba dub dubs: The cast of Rick and Morty improvise a mini-episode
Rick and Morty is delightfully, deliciously, darkly, fabulous strange and wildly imaginative, both verbally and visually – yes I seem to have slipped into an alliterative stream and I’m just going to go with it – delivering up two seasons of wacked-out adventures through space, time and weird dimensions on Adult Continue Reading