(courtesy Andrews McMeel Publishing) Adventures are supposed to be grand and gloriously thrilling things, a step far away from the everyday that takes us to places beyond imagination and our lived experience to date. And while Haru: Spring, book one of a series that will take its protagonists through the Continue Reading
Movie review: Civil War
(courtesy IMP Awards) One of the great joys of going to see movies in the cinema is when a film moves way beyond simply being something projected onto the screen and becomes an immersive experience that is so all-consuming that the real world ceases to exist and all that matters Continue Reading
Book review: Birds of a Feather by Rhianna King
(courtesy Affirm Press) As life races by at breakneck speed, it’s all too easy to assume that if we have fully realised who we are and what we could become by a certain age that it’s simply too damn late. But in Rhianna King’s utterly delightful debut novel, Birds of Continue Reading
The complications of life, love and family: Janet Planet trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy (Zoe Ziegler) spends the summer of 1991 living at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet (Julianne Nicholson). Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker captures a child’s experience of time passing, and the ineffability of a Continue Reading
The beginning of farewell … Star Trek: Discovery S5, E1-2 review
(courtesy IMP Awards) Star Trek: Discovery has always been about people and the connections they forge in building a better, more just galactic society. That might seem self evident since surely that is true of all iterations of a franchise that has held sway in the hearts and minds of Continue Reading
Book review: How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin
Is there anything new under the murder mystery sun? You may think not; after all, how many ways can you have a crime happen, have it investigated by a quirky though frighteningly competent sleuth and have the killer/s unmasked in suitably dramatic fashion? As it turns out, quite a lot, Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2024: Week 3 – Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Slovenia, Ukraine (Semi final 1, part 3)
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
This is not madness: Thoughts on Constellation (S1, E5-8)
(courtesy YouTube (c) AppleTV+) ————— SPOILERS AHEAD !!!!! ————— If there’s one thing Constellation is, it’s fiendishly, mind-bogglingly involved. It’s also darkly and richly poetic, character-rich and trippy as absolute hell but involved … and complicated … and full on to the point where multiple instances of pausing are needed Continue Reading
You are not your thoughts … trailer lands for Turtles All the Way Down
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTHannah Marks’ new film Turtles All the Way Down tackles anxiety through its 17-year-old protagonist, Aza Holmes (Isabela Merced). It’s not easy being Aza, but she’s trying… trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, and a good student, all while navigating an endless barrage of Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #104: ETHAN, Zerb, girli, Kiesza and Steve Aoki + listen to all 37 Eurovision 2024 entries … and Swedish artists thank ABBA for the music in song
(via Shutterstock) Life can feeling horribly drab and boring a lot of the time. Sure, that’s the nature of being alive; not every single moment can be a technicolour wonderland of explosive fun and fabulousness but wouldn’t it be nice if there was something to bring vivacity to the drab Continue Reading