If you’re going to do life properly, there’s a lot to navigate. And which all that busyness can come a sense of being overwhelmed and subsumed, with things rushing at you far too fast to make any meaningful sense of them. Which is why having these five artists along for Continue Reading
Movie review: Underwater
Humanity is, in general, not a huge fan of things that go bump in the night or, for that matter, of anything that swims menacingly just out of sight in deep, dark water. And yet, when the siren song of immense profits call, as they do in the William Eubank-directed Continue Reading
Book review: The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North
In the sometimes blighted age in which we now live, the concept of truth has taken rather a beating. A once inviolable idea that rested on the firm foundation of repeatedly verified facts, truth is now seen in certain quarters as a malleable quantity, something that can be dismissed as Continue Reading
What is real and what is not? Alison Brie struggles to tell the difference in Horse Girl
SNAPSHOTIn Horse Girl, Sarah (Alison Brie), a socially isolated arts and crafts store employee, finds herself more content in the company of horses and supernatural crime shows than people. But when a series of strangely surreal dreams upend the simplicity of her waking life, Sarah struggles to distinguish her visions Continue Reading
Ain’t love … murderous? The Lovebirds mixes dating and murder to hilarious effect
SNAPSHOTOn the very brink of breaking up, a couple gets unintentionally embroiled in a bizarre (and hilarious) murder mystery. As they get closer to clearing their names and solving the case, they need to figure out how they, and their relationship, can survive the night. (synopsis via Coming Soon) Every Continue Reading
Book review: The Likely Resolutions of Oliver Clock by Jane Riley
There is something utterly captivating about watching someone come alive after years, nay decades, spent making themselves into as small and non-descript a shape as possible. Or in the case of Oliver, the titular protagonist in The Likely Resolutions of Oliver Clock by Sydney author Jane Riley who finds himself, Continue Reading
Book review: Valencia and Valentine by Suzy Krause
There is a time, a heady and seemingly limitless time, when you are on the cusp of adulthood where everything seems possible. Everything’s on the table, you have all the time in the world (so you think) to pick them up and put them where you will at your leisure Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: What if the The Mandalorian had been released in the 1970s?
The Mandalorian is one of a slate recent breakout streaming hits which has benefited no doubt from the fact that it is part of the Star Wars universe but also because it is some damn fine storytelling, beautifully presented. Parts of its appeal is a Western-style narrative that feature a Continue Reading
Book review: Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James
If you exercise it properly, the imagination is a vast and wondrous place. It can also be thrillingly dangerous and intensely emotionally resonant in the most visceral and cuttingly real of ways as Marlon James makes vibrantly and chillingly clear in Black Leopard, Red Wolf, a book which brings together Continue Reading
Altered Carbon has been re-sleeved! Welcome to the season 2 teaser trailer
SNAPSHOTSeason 2 of the sophisticated and compelling sci-fi drama finds Takeshi Kovacs (Anthony Mackie), the lone surviving soldier of a group of elite interstellar warriors, continuing his centuries-old quest to find his lost love Quellcrist Falconer (Renée Elise Goldsberry). After decades of planet-hopping and searching the galaxy, Kovacs finds himself Continue Reading