YOUR GUIDE TO THE SHOWS AND FILMS THAT ENTERTAINMENT CULTURE IS SURE TO BE BUZZING ABOUT IN THE NEAR FUTURE. December 1st – THE POWER OF THE DOG (Netflix) Benedict Cumberbatch plays a viciously sadistic rancher out to destroy Kirsten Dunst in this gripping Western. Jane Campion helms this Western based on a novel of […]
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At last year’s big hardware event, Amazon announced a variety of new Echo smart speakers, the Echo Show 10 (which has a moving display), an indoor flying drone and bunch of other gadgets. At this year’s event, we got a bunch of new gadgets, but a few old ones as well. No Echo smart speakers […]
In 2011, music culture went back to the future. The sounds of the 1980s were everywhere, whether it was the sultry sax licks that adorned critically acclaimed hits by M83 and Destroyer, the soft-focus synth-pop of chillwave acts like Toro Y Moi and Washed Out, or the fractured AOR heartland rock of Bon Iver, The […]
We acknowledge the arbitrary nature of a roundup of this ilk. That said, we can vouch that the following films—classics still terrifying today, modern tales as horrifying as they are original, and foreign fare so spooky you’ll be glad you have those subtitles to focus on—leave permanent scars.
Whether you’re talking about interstellar travel, incredible filmmaking, creepy ass aliens, powerful filmmaking or sweet pieces of gear, the Alien films deliver to this day despite the fact that it’s part of one of the best science fiction movies franchises that was kicked in the late 70s. Between the sneakers, Power-Loader, Humanoid Androids–and all the […]
The Lowveld’s Sabie Waterfall Route is an insider secret in South Africa. If TLC is anything to go by, the chasing of waterfalls is apparently not something you should do out of free will. Unless Mpumalanga has seen an uncharacteristically high amounts of rain, then you better gas up whatever automobile you are lucky enough […]
With an extended lock down on the horizon and the Netflix cue getting pretty thin, we decided to dust off the old board game cupboard (or kickstarter) and see what’s new in the world of rainy day fun. Forget the classics, there’s a suite of complex, art-driven, engaging board games that have been developed by […]
Despite reflecting 2020 in far too many ways, the 2021 movie release schedule has been chugging along quite nicely, delivering some truly great movies over the past couple of months. At the halfway point of the year there’s still a whole lot to look forward too. So, here’s the movies we are most excited for […]
Everything you need in your pantry to make you a top chef, the best pics from NASA and leadership advice from Ernest Shackleton. All in this months Diversions!
Netflix continues to roll into 2021 with more content than we could ever possibly consume, and that’s an excellent conundrum to face. For sure, there’s always a lot of variety coming from the streamer — how does Netflix keep doing this, especially a year into the pandemic? no one really knows — and the challenge […]