What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
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Say “Hi!” to the friendly neighbours there … Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (poster and trailer)
SNAPSHOT[Street Gang], which inspired by Michael Davis’ New York Times best-selling book of the name, chronicles the improbable origins and expansion of the groundbreaking show that not only changed children’s television programming, but had real-world effects on equality, education, and representation worldwide. The doc features more than 20 interviews with Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2021: Week 1 – Albania, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
Come join David Attenborough and experience Life in Color
SNAPSHOTDavid Attenborough travels the world from the rainforests of Costa Rica to the snowy Scottish Highlands to reveal the extraordinary and never-before-seen ways animals use color. Using revolutionary camera technology created specifically for this series, viewers will experience how colors invisible to the human eye play a vital role in Continue Reading
Finding themselves before the truth finds them: Thoughts on Ginny & Georgia
MILD SPOILERS AHEAD … AND MUCH ANGST AND HEIGHTENED LIFE STUFF Ginny & Georgia is, in many salient ways, the anti-Gilmore Girls. This may sound like the obvious comparison to draw since the show is about a mother and daughter who are close in age – Georgia (Brianne Howey) had Continue Reading
Second life art: New York artist explains why he paints pop culture icons into discarded old paintings
SNAPSHOT“It came to me at a thrift store. I wanted to take something that had been forgotten and change it in a way that didn’t affect its aesthetic and to see if that, in and of itself, would make it wanted again.” (artist Dave Pollot via Laughing Squid) Op shops, Continue Reading
There’s a new world coming: Trailer bows for The Irregulars
SNAPSHOTMeet The Irregulars: Bea, Jessie, Billy, Spike and Leo. Join this ragtag gang as they uncover the demonic and mysterious depths of Victorian London alongside the sinister Dr Watson and his enigmatic business partner, Sherlock Holmes. (synopsis via YouTube (c) Netflix) It is getting very crowded in the world of Continue Reading
Fantastic characters and amazing creatures: The many faces of actor Doug Jones
SNAPSHOTDoug Jones is an actor mostly known for portraying inhuman creatures, usually via heavy make-up and/or visual effects in films and television series. He’s also the go-to colossus in the movies of monster king Guillermo del Toro, first appearing in Mimic and later portraying both the Faun and the Pale Continue Reading
No, no, no, no, no … Farewell Trevor Peacock (Vicar of Dibley) who made the negative sound so gloriously, happily positive #RIP
For a man who did nothing but make me laugh, Trevor Peacock, who is best known for playing Jim Trott in The Vicar of Dibley, has certainly left me very sad today. In a cast of superbly talented actors who brought their gloriously well created characters to life with comic Continue Reading
WandaVision: “Previously On” and “The Series Finale” (E1, S8 & S9 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WANDA KNOWS IT — AND SHE FEELS FINE? NOT SO MUCH MAYBE … This is a tale of two WandaVision episodes. In the first, episode 8, “Previously On”, the title of which was a promotional staple of week-to-week episodic TV, Continue Reading