SPOILERS AHEAD … AND DICTATORS ALIEN AND TERRESTRIAL … If the oft-blighted annals of human history have taught us anything, it’s that humanity is often its own worst enemy. Quite the cliche you might think but as Colony demonstrated with its usual incisive aplomb this week, it’s a cliche Continue Reading
Retro movie review: Finding Nemo (15th anniversary)
We all want to belong to someone somewhere. It’s a natural part of the human condition, a damn near unassailable imperative, but figuring out how to make that belonging work isn’t as simple as it looks. Take Nemo (voiced by Alexander Gould) and his over-protective dad Marlin (Albert Brooks) Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The mistaken identity of Elderflower
SNAPSHOT Emily has opened a florist, she’s living her dream, but she soon learns her new venture used to be a front for an entirely different business all together. (official synopsis via Vimeo) One of my favourite scenes in Richard Curtis’s Christmas classic, Love Actually, is when John (Martin Continue Reading
With a little help from his Hundred Acre friends: New trailer and poster for Christopher Robin
SNAPSHOT In the heartwarming live-action adventure Christopher Robin, the young boy who loved embarking on adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood with a band of spirited and lovable stuff animals, has grown up and lost his way. Now it is up to his childhood friends to venture into our Continue Reading
Let’s be honest! More telling-it-like-it-is movie posters from College Humor
Even though the marketing departments of the various movie studios would never admit to such a thing, there’s all kinds of hyped-up porkies being told in every movie campaign. Trailers are edited, posters designed and and in-person interviews stacked to the rafters with pertinent talking points, all with the Continue Reading
Book review: Caraval by Stephanie Garber
Just like life itself, Caraval is equal parts enchanting magic, and devious darkness, a journey into the very heart of humanity wrapped in a thousand colours of the rainbow. Colour features strongly indeed in Stephanie Garber’s debut novel, which pivots on the idea that magic abounds around us if Continue Reading
Eight boys … one crazy family … new sitcom The Kids Are Alright
SNAPSHOT Set in the 1970s, the ensemble, single-camera comedy follows a traditional Irish-Catholic family, the Clearys, as they navigate big and small changes during one of America’s most turbulent decades. In a working-class neighborhood outside Los Angeles, Mike and Peggy raise eight boisterous boys who live out their days Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Deadpool takes over Blu-ray covers of iconic films
All hail the marketing team for Deadpool 2! On the back of a plethora of very clever movie posters, inspired TV show appearances by Ryan Reynolds – singing in a unicorn head on Korean TV anyone? – and some ridiculously clever TV spots, comes Blu-ray sleeves that were slipped Continue Reading
Movie review: Solo – A Star Wars Story
Trying to recapture that effervescent sense of wonder you felt as a child can often feel like a fool’s errand; it’s magical if you succeed but so often elusive that you end up musing on whether all the effort was worth it. So the wise among us don’t end Continue Reading
Reading in public places: Why I love libraries #LIW2018
SNAPSHOT Library and Information Week, held from 21-27 May 2018 with the theme “Find yourself in a Library” aims to raise the profile of libraries and information service professionals in Australia. It gives libraries and information services the opportunity to showcase their resources, facilities, events, contacts and services through different Continue Reading