It’s early on in Tate Taylor’s The Girl on the Train, based on the bestselling book of the same name by Paula Hawkins, that you realise how supremely broken Rachel Watson (Emily Blunt) has been left by recent events in her life. Riding to and from New York each Continue Reading
Welcome to Coal Hill Academy where Class is most definitely in!
SNAPSHOT What if your planet was massacred and you were the sole survivor? What if a legendary figure out of space and time found you a place to hide? But what if the things that want to kill you have tracked you down? And worst of all, what if you Continue Reading
First impressions: Flaked
There’s something oddly compelling about antiheroes. While they’re not as perfectly put-together as the Prince Charmings of this world, who take more than their fair share of damsels in distress and live happily ever after more often than not, they do have very important relatable quality – they are Continue Reading
Little Sister: Coming home is never easy
SNAPSHOT It’s October, 2008. Young nun Colleen (Addison Timlin) is avoiding all contact from her family, until an email from her mother announces, “Your brother is home.” On returning to her childhood home in Asheville, NC, she finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and Continue Reading
Indoorsy: What hilariously happens when 3 agoraphobics open a spa in their apartment
Life as an agoraphobic isn’t easy. And while our ever-diversifying digital age offers all kinds of opportunities for the housebound, or in the case of a new web series, Indoorsy about three agoraphobic friends who open a day spa in their home, the apartment-bound to have amazing careers, run Continue Reading
Movie review: The Fundamentals of Caring
There is a thread of storytelling that runs through many a tale that posits that all you need to rediscover the many and myriad joys of being alive is to have just the right person come into your life and shake things up just so at, naturally enough, just Continue Reading
She’s still got it! (Of course) Angela Landsbury sings Beauty and the Beast theme #fansbury
Around about the time that the world marked The International Angela Lansbury Appreciation Day, a delightful video emerged of the multi-talented and endlessly effervescent Angela Lansbury performing the theme from Beauty and the Beast as its 25th anniversary screening. This gala event, whch also featured the actors who played Continue Reading
Road to Gilmore Girls A Year in the Life #4: “They Shoot Gilmores Don’t They?” (S3, E7 review)
It’s a sad fact of life but even in a town as magically quirky as Stars Hollow, where a Tennessee Williams look-a-like contest can put a bridge repair fund “right over the top” – thank you Taylor Doose (Michael Winters) – it’s still possible to have your heart broken. Yes, even Continue Reading
Going ape s**t! An astronaut has a really Bad Day on Planet of the Apes
If you’re an ape or a monkey then life in a Planet of the Apes future is pretty sweet. Once mighty Homo Sapiens are now your primitive lapdogs and the Earth, ruined New York city and all, is yours, all yours. But then an astronaut or two crash into Continue Reading
Book review: The Dog Who Dared to Dream by Sun-Mi Hwang
(cover via Hachette Australia) Dreams are often seen as an ephemeral part of life. Necessary yes, for without them where would we draw hope, or be motivated to push beyond ourselves and achieve great things, but hardly the root stock of existence, a necessity for a full and complete Continue Reading