(courtesy IMP Awards) The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (S2, E4-8) OOOO OOOO
It’s beginning to look a lot like 2024 Christmas movies: It’s Christmas, Feather Christmas and How to Make Gravy
(via Shutterstock) Oh I love Christmas! The books! The music! And, of course, the movies … well, the more idiosyncratic ones, anyway. Such as these three gems which are hopefully going to stoke the festive fires, make us feel better about the world around us, and give us that warm Continue Reading
An adventure five years in the making: Trailer released for Star Trek: Lower Decks final season
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn season five of ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks,’ the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos is tasked with closing ‘space potholes’ – subspace rifts which are causing chaos in the Alpha Quadrant. Pothole duty would be easy for Jr. Officers Mariner, Boimler, Tendi and Rutherford…if they didn’t also Continue Reading
Deep TBR book review: The Geography of Friendship by Sally Piper
(courtesy UQP) After watching far too many books sit trapped in my To Be Read (TBR) pile for years and years, I decided it was high time a month was devoted to rescuing them from the reading void and diving into their promising stories. So, for October, each book review Continue Reading
“It’s bigger than us!” Take a “special look” at Moana 2 (new trailer)
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAfter receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana (voiced by Aulixʻi Cravalho) journeys to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she has ever faced. Disney’s Moana 2 is written and directed by animation filmmaker Dave Derrick Continue Reading
Celebrating the very happiest of my happy places: Love Your Bookshop Day 2024
(courtesy The Book People) An initiative of The Book People, Love Your Bookshop Day was started as a means of “celebrat[ing] bookshops across the country and highlight[ing] what makes local bookshops great”. This year’s theme, “Giving the gift of imagination”, celebrates “the crucial role bookshops play in inspiring our imagination” Continue Reading
Deep TBR book review: Ninth Metal (The Comet Cycle #1) by Benjamin Percy
(courtesy Hachette Australia) After watching far too many books sit trapped in my To Be Read (TBR) pile for years and years, I decided it was high time a month was devoted to rescuing them from the reading void and diving into their promising stories. So, for October, each book Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #114: Charli XCX, Tobtok & Hanne Mjøen, Jamie xx and The Avalanches, BOVIY + Meg Smith
(via Shutterstock) We are always in motion; it’s the nature of being alive. But how often do we truly cut loose, surrender ourselves to beat and lyrics and just let our heart and feet take us where they will? Not often enough; there’s usually too much motion of the humdrum Continue Reading
Movie review: Wolfs
(courtesy IMP Awards) Life almost never comes with do-overs. If you stuff up, and pretty much all us do in ways big and small, you have to live with the mess and the chaos, the consequences of your ill-judged actions hanging around your neck like a medieval seafaring albatross. But Continue Reading
Festive book review: Christmas Actually by Lisa Darcy
(courtesy Bloodhound Books) Of all the seasons about which we section off and mark the calendar year, Christmas is supposed to be the one where all the good and perfect things happen, where all the drab and challenging realities of life are pushed happily aside by roasting chestnuts, peace & Continue Reading