Monthly Archives: April 2018

Smith Happens

Last night I finished bingeing my way through the first season of Netflix’s Lost in Space reboot, which I wound up enjoying a lot more than I expected to from the trailer. Interestingly, this iteration of the show lives up … Continue reading

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Emilia’s Appeal

Omaze has just announced a charity raffle to win a behind-the-scenes tour of the Game of Thrones set in Belfast, followed by a meet-n’-greet with Emilia Clarke (aka ‘Daenerys Targaryen’)… all in aid of The Royal College of Nursing Foundation. … Continue reading

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AL7egiance

After whetting the world’s appetite with two well-received singles, the newly reunited/reinvigorated L7 are ready to go the distance and record a full-length comeback album. They’ve just launched a campaign on PledgeMusic to crowdfund the project, with plenty packages and … Continue reading

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“Shouting At Helicopters!!!”

Although I was bitterly disappointed when Charlie Brooker announced that he was too busy to write/record a satirical Newswipe summary of 2017’s tumultuous political/cultural shifts/schisms, the trade-off has been a truly epic Black Mirror episode, and a full series of … Continue reading

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Her Roanoke Nightmare

ABC’s zippy new legal drama For the People is easy to watch, but hard to invest in… possibly because it’s a little too zippy for its own good at times, rushing through several heavily abridged cases-of-the-week in every episode, and … Continue reading

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