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
What might the near future be like? The City Inside has some ideas
SNAPSHOTJoey is a Reality Controller in near future Delhi. Her job is to supervise the multimedia multi-reality livestreams of Indi, one of South Asia’s fastest rising online celebrities—who also happens to be her college ex. Joey’s job gives her considerable culture-power, but she’s too caught up in day-to-day crisis-handling to Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Pixar’s newest SparkShorts’ Twenty Something
SNAPSHORTAdulting can be hard. Some days you’re nailing it, while other days, you’re just a stack of kids hiding in a trench coat hoping no one notices. Gia finds herself in this exact scenario the night of her 21st birthday. This is a story about the insecurities of adulting and Continue Reading
Book review: Thursdays at Orange Blossom House by Sophie Green
We like to think in this hyperconnected digital age of ours that we are closer than ever to those around us, and even those far, far away. And while there is some intimacy and value that comes from trading thoughts on everything from politics to cake recipes on social media Continue Reading
Weekday movie poster art: New character posters for Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch
SNAPSHOTA love letter to journalists set at an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city, centering on three storylines. It brings to life a collection of tales published in the eponymous The French Dispatch. Inspired by Anderson’s love of The New Yorker, and some characters and Continue Reading
Book review: The Arrest by Jonathan Lethem
In our pandemic-saturated times, it is all too easy to picture the world ending. That may sound overly bleak and troublingly dark but the truth is that while we all wish for things to improve and for the world to regain its healthy civilisational glow, the reality is that COVID 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
Book review: The Road Trip by Beth O’Leary
One of life’s great truisms, as least if you are a lover of supposedly self-evident truths masquerading as slightly cheesy slogans, is that you can never really go back. Sure, you can revisit the past with your therapist or think sweetly and nostalgically on it when the present gets too Continue Reading