Humanity has evinced a sustained proclivity for being, well, human, no matter what momentous technological change throws at us. It doesn’t matter whether we are travelling on Sopwith Camels or jetting from one side of the planet to the other, listening to music on a gramophone or streaming via Spotify, Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Settlers, Gunpowder Milkshake, Reminiscence
It’s been a year. Wait, way more than a year and still the COVID pandemic nips at our heels, dives into our lives at times and causes chaos. Who wouldn’t want to escape from that particular crapfest? Granted, these films are not exactly a warm bubble bath on a cold Continue Reading
One festive bird in the hand: Robin Robin (Aardman) takes flight for Christmas)
SNAPSHOTThe story–which the directors wrote with Sam Morrison–follows a robin who is raised by a loving family of mice after her egg rolls into a dump. As she grows up, her differences become more apparent and Robin sets off on a heist to prove to her family that she can Continue Reading
The true final frontier is time: Trailer lands for Picard season 2
SNAPSHOTStar Trek: Picard tells the next story of Picard’s life, which takes place after the events of Star Trek: Next Generation. Series creator Alex Kurtzman previously described the series as a “very thoughtful, psychological portrait in a lot of ways… Things have changed for [Picard] and changed him in some Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #49: AUDREY NUNA, George Gretton, Cannons, Supertaste, Ben Phipps and CAPPA + #Eurovision Song Celebration 2021
It’s been busy. You need some peace and quiet BUT you also want to think … to feel … to ponder. Another one of life’s wondrous contradictions which lends itself to being soundtracked by people who get the human condition, who have lived it and who have the talent to Continue Reading
The best endings are Atypical: Trailer released for fourth and final season
SNAPSHOTCreated by showrunner and executive producer Rob Rashid, Atypical tells the story of Sam Gardner (Kier Gilchrist)— a young man on the autism spectrum looking for love and independence. Atypical season 4 promises to find all of the characters facing down challenges they never anticipated. For Sam, specifically, that includes Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “The Beginning” (S6, E16 review) #SeasonFinale
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A WHOLE LOT OF IRRADIATED EXISTENTIAL ANGST … Sooooo … what do you do when ten nuclear warheads are about to rain down at points unknown around you and you may have only minutes to find shelter or die in the attempt? Do you … (a) Continue Reading
Book review: Geraldine Verne’s Red Suitcase by Jane Riley
One of the enduring myths of grief is that at some unspecified point, the person caught in its enervating and seemingly endless grasp will simply get up, reassess the sorry state of their life and walk happy into a sunset garlanded with alluring possibility, renewed hope and a sense of Continue Reading
Movie review: Army of the Dead
For beings that are essentially nothing more than reanimated corpses, zombies are doing rather nicely at the whole evolving to a higher life form thing. It’s highly unlikely Charles Darwin had them in mind when he penned Origin of Species, but momentous scientific breakthroughs in understanding aside, zombies have taken Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: We Only Find Them When We’re Dead (issues 1 – 5) by Al Ewing and Simone Di Meo
The prospect of finding out the truth about something is powerfully and motivatingly intoxicating. Operating as we so often do in a veil of lies and half-truths, much of it motivated by necessary social lubrication or the unwillingness of certain groups in society to gaze upon the authentic face of Continue Reading