SNAPSHOTWhen carefree Nyles (Andy Samberg) and reluctant maid of honor Sarah (Cristin Milioti) have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, of each other. Alongside Golden Globe winner Samberg (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, SNL), Palm Springs also stars Cristin Milioti (The Continue Reading
Book review: Kokomo by Victoria Hannan
ARC courtesy Hachette Australia – release date 28 July 2020. We are a people who exist uneasily between expectation and consequence. In our heady younger days particularly, but even as we get older, especially if we are optimistically inclined, we can’t help but approach a given situation with the fixed Continue Reading
Will you survive? COVID-19 and social isolation explained by a supercut of horror and sci-fi films
COVID-19 just won’t go away will it? It has wiped normal off the agenda as an everyday concept, caused untold misery, loss and heartache and changed life as we know it for the considerable future. We have all muddled through as best we can but is there a better way? Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #29: Petit Biscuit, Ellie Goulding, Julia Jean-Baptiste, Astrid S, CLIO
Life and love comes with more than their fair share of challenges and it’s safe to say that much as we would like a magic wand to be waved, there are no easy solutions to many of the things that vex and beset us (those two words don’t get used Continue Reading
Book review: Chilling Effect by Valerie Valdes
If there’s one thing a space opera worth its galactic salt needs as much as a rip-roaring endlessly expansive narrative, it’s a larger-than-life protagonist as its core. You know the kind – a take-no-prisoners, swashbuckling soul who dares to challenge the orthodoxies and powers that be of the day and Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: Alive, 7500, Blithe Spirit
Zombies and ghosts and … airline pilots? Oh my! Today’s mini-mass of trailers is a mixed bunch but all of them involve peril of one kind or another, which makes for the best kind of visceral drama. With COVID-19 continuing to lay waste to our world and to any concept Continue Reading
Weekday pop art: Inking pop culture fun into your life
SNAPSHOT“Tattoo culture is very small, loving, and supportive. My tattooer friends and I are trying our best to show everyone that tattoos are nothing less than an expression of art. …I tried to find a way to express my classical painting knowledge within a size that could fit people who Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Out (Pixar SparkShorts)
Coming out is one of the most terrifyingly great things anyone on the LGBTQIA+ spectrum can do in their life. Terrifying because you are exposing yourself in such a massively vulnerable way that there is really no way to head anything off at the pass – you simply have to Continue Reading
Book review: Agency by William Gibson
One of the inestimable joys of well-written speculative fiction, which encompasses a broad range of genres including fittingly for this review, futuristic, is how it turns an engaging premise into a story so believably and immersively well-executed that it feels as real as the seat you are reading the book Continue Reading
Nobody wins solo: The glitzy travails of trying to prove yourself in #Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga
SNAPSHOTEurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga focuses on Lars Erickssong and Sigrit Ericksdottir, two struggling Icelandic musicians who join the contest. Joining Will Ferrell (Elf, Blades of Glory) and Rachel McAdams (The Notebook, Game Night) are Pierce Brosnan (Mrs. Doubtfire, Mamma Mia!) as Erick Erickssong, Dan Stevens (Beauty Continue Reading