(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn season 3, we pick back up with Nora and freshly downloaded Nathan as they navigate their relationship, while racing to stop the mysterious conspiracy that threatens to destroy millions of lives. Meanwhile, in Lakeview, a backup copy of Nathan has been activated and Ingrid’s not about Continue Reading
Book review: The Humans by Matt Haig
(courtesy Matt Haig) It’s a rare and wonderful thing to pick up a book, read the back blurb and decide to get it because it sounds like a deliciously appealing mix of quirky and thoughtful, and then to find that it not only deliver on the promise of its premise Continue Reading
Phantoms begone! It’s Scooby-Doo! and Krypto, Too!
(courtesy IMDb / (c) DC Comics/Warner Bros Entertainment) SNAPSHOTThe world’s greatest heroes, DC’s Justice League, have mysteriously vanished and a terrifying phantom has taken up residence in The Hall of Justice. Now it’s up to the world’s greatest super sleuths, Scooby and the gang, to solve the mystery and save Continue Reading
Sci-fi double: Invasion (S2, E4-5) + Foundation (S2, E9-10)
(courtesy YouTube (c) AppleTV+) EPISODE 4: “The Tunnel”You can understand why humanity is sitting on a high at this episode opens since it’s blown seven alien ships out of the sky thanks to coordinated nuclear strikes – go Mitsuki Yamato (Shioli Kutsuna) and your weird alien conversing ways and eerily Continue Reading
Movie review: Blue Beetle
(courtesy IMP Awards) Impressive though they are, with blockbuster epicness leaking from their every oversized, CGI-enhanced narrative pore, one thing that superhero often don’t have in abundance is a bold and affecting sense of real affecting humanity. Oh, they have pivotally impactful moments – well, moments engineered to be that Continue Reading
Book review: Death to Anyone Who Reads This (A Found Novel) by Hugh Howey and Elinor Taylor
Apocalypses are, as a rule, not exactly places of merriment and jollity. The human race has been decimated, if it survives much at all, zombies/aliens/malevolent viruses/ naturally violent phenomenon stalk the land and civilisation are we know it is toast and likely to remain so in one of those evolutionary Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #93: Mia Nicolai, Sigrid, Georgia, Molly Burch and Genesis Owusu + Eurovision 2024 update!
(via Shutterstock) Love is a messy powerful thing – sometimes it works in our favour, sometimes it doesn’t. When it does, and our romantic dreams crumble into dust, it can feel like the world has fallen apart, it can feel like indescribably words, emotions so big and damaging they somehow Continue Reading
Movie review: Past Lives
(courtesy IMP Awards) There’s something achingly affecting about the relationship many of us have with the past. Whether it was a sad or happy time, and regardless of where it left us in the present, there’s a certain mourning that takes place, a melancholic nostalgia for what might have been Continue Reading
The tide is turning: First trailer drops for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
(courtesy IMP awards) SNAPSHOTHaving failed to defeat Aquaman the first time, Black Manta, still driven by the need to avenge his father’s death, will stop at nothing to take Aquaman down once & for all. Now Black Manta is more formidable than ever, wielding the power of the mythic Black Continue Reading
Master and apprentice: Star Wars Ahsoka (S1, E 1-5 review)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Stepping into some Star Wars shows, especially if you’re not one of those dedicated fans who has watched all the movie and shows, read all the graphic novels and books and devoured every last canonical morsel, can be more than a little intimidating. There’s a lot of Continue Reading