There’s something innately compelling about people with a strong sense of self. I’m not talking about arrogant souls who think they’re god’s gift to the universe, but rather people who are comfortable in themselves and at ease with expressing it. The five duos and artists in this post’s selection Continue Reading
Scoops ahoy! Stranger Things 3 releases a mall-avelous teaser trailer
Ah the ’80s! Gaudy, colourful, pastel-hued fun – hypwercolour T-shirts, shoulder pads, Duran Duran … and the rise and rise of the mall. How big a deal were malls in the 1980s? They were BIG and just how big can be seen in the new teaser trailer for Stranger Continue Reading
Book review: Whisper by Lynette Noni
You have to admire any author who plunges into the well-travelled waters of genre literature, particularly when it concerns mutants, often held aloft as humanity’s possible evolutionary future and the subject of many a graphic novel or film series. But Australian author Lynette Noni, who is best known for Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Spell of the West – birds, a cowgirl and the mysterious Ax-Man
Who is the mysterious Ax-Man and what is doing that’s traumatising the non-opposable thumb possessing and capacity for abstract thought-lacking birds that inhabit the cowgirl’s isolated cacti farm? Hint it’s not good and what starts out as three hysterical birds frantically trying to call attention to a serious, ever-growing Continue Reading
Colony: “Disposable Heroes” (S3, E11 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SUBTERFUGE, DOUBLE-DEALING AND UNDERHANDED EVERYTHING! If the alien apocalypse wasn’t such a serious business, and we’re talking “serious” with a capital “S” and some highly luminous but grim neon, you could well argue that everyone is having a hood of a time trying to outfox Continue Reading
There’s a new Doctor Who in town … and she looks amazing! (Season 11 poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOT The series will introduce Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, the most recent incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in her TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box on the outside. The series will also introduce Bradley Walsh, Continue Reading
Book review: I’ll Have What She’s Having by Erin Carlson
Romantic comedies are one of those cinematic genres that the cool people of the world love to rain hate and scorn down upon. Possessed, you must assume, of love lives so magnificently perfect and satisfying that Cupid himself looks on with rose-ripped envy, they look disdainfully at films which Continue Reading
Ready to be Insecure all over again? Sure you are … (trailers)
SNAPSHOT Creator Issa Rae (The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl) stars as Issa Dee, who struggles to navigate the tricky professional and personal terrain of Los Angeles along with her best friend Molly (Yvonne Orji). (synopsis via HBO) Good god I love Issa Rae. Specifically, her role in HBO’s Continue Reading
Christmas in July #3: Watched The Flying Nun’s “Wailing in a Winter Wonderland”
One of the great delights of The Flying Nun (1967-1970) was, and shall always be, how wonderfully sweet Sister Bertille (played by Gidget herself, the incomparable Sally Field) is in just about every scene. I know that kind of naively-enthusiastic caring character is not really in vogue anymore; people like Continue Reading
Apocalyptic Christmas? In Extinction, Michael Peña has visions of alien invasion dancing in his head
SNAPSHOT A working class father of the future faces recurring dreams of destruction by an unknown force. When his unwanted nightmares begin to affect his relationship with his family, he soon realizes they may be the key to a horrible reality, as a relentless alien attack begins to destroy Continue Reading