SNAPSHOTSet in the dark, early days of a zombie apocalypse, Black Summer stars Jaime King as Rose, a mother torn from her daughter who embarks upon a harrowing journey to find her. Thrust alongside a small group of American refugees, these complete strangers must find the strength they need to Continue Reading
Saturday morning TV: Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch
Cars good, motorcycles bad. That seems to be the theme of Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch, an animated series from Hanna-Barbera which ran for 13 episodes from September 7, 1974 to November 30, 1974, and featured a land of sentient vehicles where the good guys were the cars and the Continue Reading
Deadpool’s not in Avengers: Endgame right? Think again
SNAPSHOT After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins due to the efforts of the Mad Titan, Thanos. With the help of remaining allies, the Avengers must assemble once more in order to undo Thanos’ actions and restore order to the universe once and for Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #4: Nafets, Anna of the North, Barrie, Elohim, Rex Orange Country
We hide way too much. Not that everything has to be out in the open – some things should be kept quiet for a variety of reasons. But too often we don’t discuss life in all its uplifting and brutal messiness, conversations that could help many of us to feel Continue Reading
One summer can change everything: Stranger Things season 3 trailer
I’m betting that the good but traumatised kids of Hawkins, Indiana are the only ones sitting down in their class at the beginning of the school year and dreading the inevitable request from the teacher to write a report about what they did over the summer. While everyone else was Continue Reading
Movie review: Sometimes. Always. Never.
Movies about grief and loss often seem to exist in an entirely different plane of existence to everyday life – part of it but set apart, always feeling like they are a captured moment in time, a still life of sadness that will never rejoin the ebb and flow that Continue Reading
Old friends, new friends and stories that change you: New Toy Story 4 trailer + poster
SNAPSHOT Woody (voice of Tom Hanks) has always been confident about his place in the world, and that his priority is taking care of his kid, whether that’s Andy or Bonnie. So when Bonnie’s beloved new craft-project-turned-toy, Forky (voice of Tony Hale), declares himself as “trash” and not a toy, Continue Reading
Star Wars original trilogy – aliens everywhere you look
Think there aren’t many aliens in the original Star Wars trilogy? It’s an easy mistake to make since it’s the human beings who are front and centre most of the time; but as this brilliantly-playful video from Star Wars Kids make informatively-plain, there are way more aliens in the three Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “Project Daedalus” (S2, E9 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND GREAT LOSS AND THE SLIGHT HOPE OF SOMETHING TO BE GAINED … It’s tempting to think of any great ideal of having few to no rough edges; after all, what is the point of all their bright, shiny goodness if ideals are shown to be just Continue Reading
Outer space in 2D: The Orville gets its very own comic book
SNAPSHOT The first of these “episodes” starts with The Orville #1: New Beginnings Part 1 (of two). On their way to a fleet conference, Ed and Gordon investigate a distress signal from a century-old buoy belonging to a Union ship. Back on the Orville, Kelly tries to mediate when Bortus Continue Reading