22+ hour, 58+ min ago   (673+ words) Nostalgia for the 1980s is everywhere, most potently in the Duffer brothers" epic series, Stranger Things. I understand and share the enthusiasm for the series. It is a Valentine to nerdy outsiders and fans of 1980s music and films. But if you…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (660+ words) Next came her 2023 novel The Future, which toyed with what might happen in a not-too-distant tomorrow if today's increasingly dystopian social media and technology-infused world got even worse, to where corporations, platforms and their ultra-wealthy owners " the controllers of all…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (718+ words) Five episodes into the first of a planned four seasons, what is Pluribus? The premise of the Apple TV show, as outlined by its creator, is "the most miserable person on Earth tries to save the world from happiness. Still,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (455+ words) The 1980s nostalgia celebrated by Stranger Things is " well, a strange thing for the Irish viewer. While Americans of the time were breezing about on bikes and having adventures way past their bedtime, we in this country were trapped in an…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (570+ words) So much boob tape. The girlies know. The fear! Because there's so many cameras around you." [How a Letterkenny teenager shone on the small screen as an "accidental feminist'Opens in new window] When the Canadian producers hired her with five…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1219+ words) Television was turned upside down on July 15th, 2016, when Netflix quietly debuted a new sci-fi series about a bunch of nerdy kids in a small town in the United States battling a monster inspired by the perennially unfashionable role-playing game Dungeons…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (445+ words) The crime fiction narrative has been open to cross-genre fertilisation ever since Edgar Allan Poe published The Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841, with science-fiction and horror the most frequent forms to be blended into the sturdy but endlessly elastic…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (417+ words) Denis Villeneuve will direct the next James Bond film, Amazon MGM Studios has announced. The Oscar-nominated Canadian film-maker most recently directed the hugely successful blockbusters Dune and Dune: Part Two, as well as Arrival, Sicario, Blade Runner 2049 and Prisoners. "Some…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (680+ words) In a surprise for viewers of Doctor Who on Saturday evening, Ncuti Gatwa, who stars as the Doctor in the popular BBC series, is seen regenerating into Billie Piper in the season finale. Piper, 42, first appeared in the series as…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago   (630+ words) Val Kilmer, the actor best known for his roles in Top Gun, Batman Forever and The Doors, has died at the age of 65. His daughter Mercedes told the New York Times that the cause of death was pneumonia. Val Kilmer,…...