It needs to be said right from the start that I have fallen hopelessly and irrevocably in love with Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) and Megan Mullally (Will & Grace) over the course of reading their delightfully-candid and hilariously funny book The Greatest Love Story Ever Told. So you can Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: An Ode to Love – one man, an island and some sticks
An Ode To Love, written and directed by Matthew Darragh and produced by Suzie Belton & Danielle Considine with music by Stefan French, and made with the generous support of Filmbase and RTE, tells the story of a man on a desert island who falls in love with a stick. Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “An Obol for Charon” (S2, E4 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND SOME GOOD OLD-FASHIONED “IS IT GOOD OR IS IT BAD?” STAR TREK-ING … Damn those multi-phasic stasis shields! Just when you’re zipping through the Alpha Quadrant at speed, warp speed, hot on the heels of Spock’s (Ethan Peck) warp signature – thanks to Number 1 (Rebecca Continue Reading
Book review: Normal People by Sally Rooney
While current events might suggest otherwise, most people are inclined to a romantic optimism when it comes to love and belonging, preferring to err on the side of eternal hope rather perpetually-smouldering pessimism. Part of this buoyant outlook on life, one that is enshrined in innumerable fairytales and thus Disney Continue Reading
Valentine’s Day with Friends: Ross, Rachel and love worth waiting for
Ah, love sweet sitcom-engineered love. Ross and Rachel were the emotional will-they-won’t they centrepiece of the Friends sitcom, which ran from 1994 to 2004. While you could argue that theirs was a wholly unhealthy dynamic, those of us with a more romantic view of the world, including hosts Debra Minoff Continue Reading
Boldly go where no carpool has gone before: the cast of Star Trek Discovery find their inner disco queen
Sure, they can face off against bloodythirsty, warmongering Klingons, triumph over bad guys from another dimension and rescue people in the nick of time from planetary into a devouring sun … but can the crew of the Discovery, Star Trek’s latest ship of the line, SING? Or, at least, singalong, Continue Reading
Want to meet a Super. Dysfunctional. Family.? I give you The Umbrella Academy
SNAPSHOT The show’s 10 episodes follow the members of the Umbrella Academy, seven of the 43 babies all born on the same day in 1989 to women who showed no signs of being pregnant the day before. Billionaire Sir Reginald Hargreeves adopts these seven kids, all of whom possess extraordinary Continue Reading
Movie review: Io
Pop quiz! The world is ending, yes again – once is understandable, two is just careless and beyond that, well – and you have one last chance to get aboard a ship that will take you out to the moon of Io, orbiting Jupiter, around which sits all that is Continue Reading
Book review: Lenny’s Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee
There is this overly-romantic idea out there that the moment someone close to you is in some kind of mortal danger that you somehow ascend to a hitherto unglimpsed level of sainthood. It is as if how much you love that person is an inert mass of little to no Continue Reading
Book trailer: The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe
SNAPSHOT There is something Poe Blythe, the 17-year-old captain of the Outpost’s last mining ship, wants far more than the gold they tear from the Serpentine River. Revenge. Poe has vowed to annihilate the river raiders who robbed her of everything two years ago. But as she navigates the treacherous Continue Reading