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Fiends, omens and bogeymen – lead me your fears: Trailer lands for Muppets Haunted Mansion
SNAPSHOTIn Muppets Haunted Mansion, the Great Gonzo – world-famous daredevil artiste, has done it all, seen it all, and survived it all. But on Halloween night, the fearless Gonzo takes on the greatest challenge of his life by spending one very daring night in the grimmest-of-the-grim places on Earth… The Continue Reading
Hold on to your humanity: Invasion will test who we are as a people (full trailer)
SNAPSHOTFrom Academy Award-nominated and two-time Emmy Award-nominated producer Simon Kinberg and David Weil, Invasion is a sweeping, character-driven science fiction drama series that follows an alien invasion through different perspectives around the world. Following multiple storylines across different continents, Invasion takes a global look at how one alien invasion would Continue Reading
Movie review: Front Cover #Queerscreen
One of the great tropes of romantic comedies, indeed any love worth its red-toned, Cupid-heavy salt, is the headily appealing idea that opposites attract. There’s something inherently beguiling about the notion that two quite disparate people can find enough common ground on which to build a romance for the ages, Continue Reading
Let the adventure begin! Around the World in 80 Days starring David Tennant (trailer)
SNAPSHOTThe plot centres around Phileas Fogg (David Tennant) making a £20,000 wager with snobbish members of the prestigious Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the world in 80 days. He’s joined by his new valet Passepartout (Ibrahim Koma), and journalist Abigail Fix (Leonie Benesch). (synopsis courtesy Wikipedia) Much delayed, as Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #56: Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Ben Zaidi, Holly Humberstone, Ty Segall, Sipper + September #Eurovision update
Life, huh? It’s good, it’s bad, it’s joyous, it is most certainly not and yet one thing we can all agree on is that it is complex and just waiting for insightful, creative souls to capture in all its contradictory glory. These five artists or groups have done and then Continue Reading
Need a delightful escape from reality? Go on a colourful adventure with Wolfboy and the Everything Factory
SNAPSHOT“Wolfboy and the Everything Factory follows Wolfboy (voiced by Kassian Akhtar), an imaginative oddball who discovers a strange realm at the center of the earth where fantastical beings called ‘Sprytes’ create things for the natural world on the surface—clouds, trees, rabbits, dreams, hiccups, memories, time… everything! With his newfound Spryte Continue Reading
Book review: Shelf Life by Livia Franchini
You have likely read this type of novel a thousand times over. Couple breaks up over reasons devastatingly huge and languishingly trivial, one half of a once-tonight partnership finds themselves reeling and without initially wanting to, finds themselves being forced to reinvent themselves with heartwarmingly and predictably uplifting results. It’s Continue Reading
“Not without my team”: Finch celebrates being alive in an all-new trailer
SNAPSHOTIn the film, a man, a robot, and a dog form an unlikely family in a powerful and moving adventure of one man’s quest to ensure that his beloved canine companion will be cared for after he’s gone. Hanks stars as Finch, a robotics engineer and one of the few Continue Reading
Book review: My Name is Monster by Katie Hale
With the human experience awash in apocalyptical tales, including a pandemic one that sits rather uncomfortably at the heart of modern reality, you could be forgiven for thinking that one of the end of the world story looks much like the other. And while it’s true that all of them Continue Reading