The finding of yourself is never an easy thing. Oh, some people make it look easy, decided in utero that they will be firefighters or orators or presidents and never once faltering from their prodigious path. But for the rest of us, mere mortals that we are with a lot Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: The world really is a Wes Anderson film after all
Who hasn’t wished at one time or another (usually a stultifyingly bland and boring time or another) for the world to be a little more magical or whimsical or quirky? All of us have, bar those who like things neatly and solidly utilitarian, which is probably why the films of Continue Reading
Movie review: Emma
Nothing quite sparkles like a brilliantly-effected Jane Austen adaptation. A captivatingly good writer who managed to combine romantic comedy with incisive social commentary, Austen’s books are ripe for translation to the big and small screen, full of warmth, witty banter, arch parody and a cutting way with words that strikes Continue Reading
Even further back in time … It’s time for stories from Star Wars: The High Republic
SNAPSHOT“‘Star Wars: The High Republic features the Jedi as we’ve always wanted to see them — as true guardians of peace and justice. This is a hopeful, optimistic time, when the Jedi and the Galactic Republic are at their height. But of course, into this glorious new era something wicked Continue Reading
Book review: The Cruel Stars (The Cruel Stars trilogy 1) by John Birmingham
If there’s one theme that emerges loudly and clearly from the genre of science fiction, it’s the idea that for every moment of advancement and rebirth, whether technological or cultural, there’s often a matching cataclysmic moment of destruction. Life has rarely has one without the other and so it makes Continue Reading
Atypical is getting a 4th and finals season … and a teaser trailer!
I love Atypical. Season 1, 2 and 3 of the Netflix dramedy have been a joy full of compelling, accessible characters, witty lines, poignant moments and some weighty life issues. Like any fan of a show that is richly warm, emotionally evocative and all-engrossing, I would like it to go Continue Reading
Messy is normal: Thoughts on Sex Education (season 2)
You have to hand it to humanity – despite all evidence suggesting life is a clusterf**k of magnificent proportions from which we might receive the occasional, delightful reprieve, people persist in thinking that perhaps it’s the messiness that’s an aberration and that’s the normal state of affairs is a blissful Continue Reading
Tons of TV trailers: Vagrant Queen, I’m Not Okay With This, Duncanville, Beforeigners, Hunters
So here’s the thing – there is more TV than anyone can possibly watch in a lifetime (or monkeys typing randomly on typewriters for that matter but then they want to write Shakespeare not watch television so they probably aren’t too worried about that.) And yet … AND YET … Continue Reading
Book review: The Last Day by Andrew Hunter Murray
While the world seems obsessed with all things apocalyptic at the moment, the truth is that a darker and far more troubling future for humanity is one in which the world doesn’t end so much as slide, ingloriously and with every last shred of idealism shorn from it, into bleak Continue Reading
Movie review: Monsoon #MGFF20
Perhaps Lauren Eden, a Melbourne poet with a gift for elegant, exquisitely well-expressed lines said it best when she observed in her collection Of Yesteryear that “We live in the small spaces between our words / hiding between the said / and all we cannot say.” There is an ocean Continue Reading