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
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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
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
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
Further animated adventures far from the Bridge: Thoughts on Lower Decks (S2, E1-5)
Star Trek has a reputation for being very, VERY serious. It’s not undeserved, of course, since the franchise as a whole has its eyes firmly on the bettering of the human race in particular and the galaxy as a whole, an undertaking far into the future that is, by its Continue Reading
Hawkeye: This holiday season the best gifts come with a bow (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOTFormer Avenger Clint Barton has a seemingly simple mission: get back to his family for Christmas. Possible? Maybe with the help of Kate Bishop, a 22-year-old archer with dreams of becoming a Super Hero. The two are forced to work together when a presence from Barton’s past threatens to derail Continue Reading
Figuring out life and love is messy: Never Have I Ever (season 2) review
It was those Swedish musical poets who once sagely observed, somewhere around 1973, that “Love Isn’t Easy But it Sure is Hard Enough”. with the song going on to observe that: “We gotta have patience, love isn’t just a sensationSome of the time it gets roughLove isn’t easy but it Continue Reading
So no one told you the galaxy was gonna be this way – Star Trek: Deep Space Nine meets Friends
Yes, someone has mixed the highly memorable and damn neat iconic Friends theme song with yet another TV show, in this case, shots of the main characters from my favourite Star Trek show Deep Space Nine, and yes you could wonder if it’s worth another trip down this particular mash-up Continue Reading
Fun weekend mash-ups: The imaginative cleverness of Frasier looking at video games
I love people who come up with left-of-centre, out-of-the-box way of reinterpreting a much loved character. It’s a takes a lot of imagination to step away from the known and expected, and it’s apparent that video game designer Eagle McGill from London, profiled in Laughing Squid, has that in spades, Continue Reading
Star Trek Day 2021: Trailers and news and panels … and onwards to the stars and lots of new viewing opportunities!
If ever we needed a time where we could escape to the stars it’s this one. To be fair most of human history – oh, who are we kidding? ALL of it – would likely have benefited from a future in which inclusiveness, diversity and social and economic equality are Continue Reading