SNAPSHOTBeyond the walls of the small village of Mythen Rood lies an unrecognizable landscape. A place where overgrown forests are filled with choker trees and deadly seeds that will kill you where you stand. And if they don’t get you, one of the dangerous shunned men will. Koli has lived Continue Reading
Book review: The Prettiest Horse in the Glue Factory by Corey White
Coming to grips with our past is always a tricky proposition. Emboldened by the idea that with examination and hopeful closure comes healing, and often unable to bear the pain of the scars of childhood any longer, we plunge into the fray of memories and past hurts, convinced by feel-good Continue Reading
“And that’s the end of the Morty-gets-a-dragon experiment” – It’s the manically hilarious BAU trailer for Rick and Morty S4
They’re back! After two long Mr Meeseeks-deficient years, Rick and Morty, the gloriously twisted, technicolour creation of Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, is back with the first five episodes of season 4 (another five are on the way at some indeterminate point in the future, along with an additional 60 Continue Reading
Movie review: Falling Inn Love
Are you a cynic or a romantic? That may sound like an odd question to pose at the beginning of a review of a romantic comedy film since the underlying assumption is that as a partaker of this type of Cupid-esque confection that you are totally on board with the Continue Reading
Six sensational #NYCC TV trailers: Lost in Space S2, Star Trek Discovery S3, Picard, Snowpiercer, The Walking Dead spinoff, Devs
New York Comic-Con 2019, “an annual New York City fan convention dedicated to Western comics, graphic novels, anime, manga, video games, cosplay,[4] toys, movies, and television”, has just run its course, and with it came a delectable torrent of TV trailers, including for some very anticipated TV shows. I’ve gathered Continue Reading
Book review: The Surprising Power of a Good Dumpling by Wai Chim
As concepts go, the idea of “normal” is one that is very close to most people’s hearts. It may be near meaningless, rubbery in definition and oblique as things get, but it is beloved, largely because intangibility has never been an issue when it comes to Homo Sapiens deciding if Continue Reading
An undead family history: How zombies have changed over time in popular culture
SNAPSHOT“The zombie, they say, is the soulless human corpse still dead but taken from the grave and endowed by sorcery with a mechanical semblance of life. The zombies of Haitian folklore are controlled by a sorcerer called a bokor who uses them for his own ends often for menial work Continue Reading
Weekend movie poster art: Harley Quinn emancipates herself with cheeky chutzpah in Birds of Prey
SNAPSHOTMargot Robbie will be reprising her Suicide Squad role of Harley Quinn in the film, which also stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Huntress, Jurnee Smollett-Bell as Black Canary, Ella Jay Basco as Cassandra Cain, Ewan McGregor as the villain Black Mask, Chris Messina as Victor Zsasz and Rosie Perez as Continue Reading
Book review: Taking Tom Murray Home by Tim Slee
For most people, the death of a loved one is a mostly private affair; granted there is a funeral and often a wake, all very public by their very nature, but for the most part, it’s an intensely-traumatic personal thing. Not so for Dawn Murray, wife of Tom who, in Continue Reading
What’s hiding in the most solitary place on Earth? Deep Sea has the answer … and it’s not Ariel
SNAPSHOTThe water pressure here is 1,086 bar. Taking a swim here is like having to balance 1,800 elephants on top of you. But even here, life has found a way to thrive. Next to sea cucumbers, white and light pink amphipods wiggle their way through the water. Their size is Continue Reading