Waiting for the chance to return to Stars Hollow is proving well nigh interminable with the Gilmore Girls scheduled to premiere on Netflix sometime later this year. But at least we now have a title – thanks to an announcement by Lauren Graham on The Ellen DeGeneres Show (see Continue Reading
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Movie review: Tumbledown
Grief is not an easy or straightforward road to travel. That much becomes abundantly clear in the opening minutes of Tumbledown by directing-writing duo Sean Mewshaw and Desiree Van Til when Hannah Miles (Rebecca Hall), who is still mired in the grief of losing her folk singer husband Hunter two Continue Reading
New crews, new worlds: Star Trek’s big vision of space is coming back to the small screen
(Image via YouTube (c) CBS) We’re boldly going places we’ve never gone before AGAIN! Yes, granted Star Trek never really went away, its absence on the small screen made up for, in part at least, by a series of movies on the big screen, the latest of which Star Continue Reading
Now this is music #69 – M83, Shallows, Flanch, St. Albion, Luna Shadows
Its Friday! And like pretty everyone on planet earth at the working week, what you want to do is escape. But what if there’s no time or money to head to a cosy beach house or sit for hours on end at a poolside bar watching the world go Continue Reading
Oh hell yeah I wanna go to The Good Place
Ah yes the Afterlife. Many of us believe in it in some form or another – the ancient Egyptians gave Tutankhamen at entire tomb of gilded objects to make his transition there as rich and luxurious as possible – quite a lot of us don’t but you can be Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Sicut Cervus” (S2, E6 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND ZOMBIE-OBSESSED PEOPLE WITH AN UNNATURAL AFFINITY TO DEATH* So the apocalypse huh? Can’t live with its side-effects – all those pesky, flesh-craving zombies and humanity’s basest desires writ large – and you can’t hang onto your sanity. Well, not if you’re Chris (Lorenzo James Continue Reading
Where are you my true love? Match Not Found dares to (hilariously) ask the question
Those wise pop cultures sages ABBA observed very early on in their career that “Love Isn’t Easy (But It Sure Is Hard Enough)”, a sentiment as true now as it was in 1973. And while Match Not Found, a web series by playwright Alex Oates and actress Katie Sheridan Continue Reading
Eurovision 2016 wrap-up: Who saw that winner coming?!
Well cover me in a glitter and call me a poorly-synchronised back up dancer but you could’ve knocked me, and I suspect much of Europe over with a very small feather when the Ukraine was announced as the winner of this year’s event. Talk about coming out of left Continue Reading
The epic adventure of Kubo and the Two Strings
SNAPSHOT Kubo and the Two Strings is an epic action-adventure set in a fantastical Japan from acclaimed animation studio LAIKA. Clever, kindhearted Kubo (voiced by Art Parkinson of Game of Thrones) ekes out a humble living, telling stories to the people of his seaside town including Hosato (George Takei), Continue Reading
J.R.R. Tolkien vs George R.R. Martin: Epic rap battle over whose king of the fantasy mountain
Who is the greatest fantasy storyteller of them all hmmm? That is the great conundrum of the latest instalment from Epic Rap Battles of History which pits the revered writer of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien against HBO’s wunderkind darling George R. R. Continue Reading