When you pick up a book and the back cover blurb happily proclaims that J. Ryan Stradal’s novel is “joyous, quirky and heartwarming”, you fully expect it to be all those things. After all, a blurb writer at a publishing company wouldn’t just make that sort of stuff up Continue Reading
Enough to start a war: Neil Gaiman’s arresting poem Hate For Sale in powerfully animated form
Neil Gaiman is an imaginative, thoughtful, powerfully-talented writer with a seemingly endless capacity to take what many of us are thinking and put it into cogent, poetically-articulate form. So when you marry up his powerful poem Hate For Sale, on the seductive (though destructive) power of hatred, with the Continue Reading
Welcome to the Jungle? Jumanji reboot does its best to entertain
SNAPSHOT In a brand new Jumanji adventure, the tables are turned as four teenagers are sucked into Jumanji’s world – pitted against rhinos, black mambas and an endless variety of jungle traps and puzzles. To survive, they’ll play as characters from the game: meek Spencer becomes a brave explorer Continue Reading