SNAPSHOT“Isaura is a resilient and resourceful young girl living in a coastal village in Mozambique. After risking her own life to save a turtle, she is rewarded with a powerful and ancient talisman that allows her to breathe underwater and communicate with turtles. As bearer of the talisman, she becomes Continue Reading
Book review: The Sisters Grimm by Menna van Praag
There is a delicious, passionate, unpredictable contrariness at the heart of us all. We may only be dimly aware of it or fully aware of it in all its wildly contradictory glory depending our perceptive abilities and inclination, but our innate humanity, our capacity for good and evil, light and Continue Reading
“Make it so, number one!” Why Patrick Stewart and classical training help when you’re counting 1 to 9, right Count?
Counting from 1 to 9 should be one the easiest things in the world, right? Well, normally, yes, if you’re Sesame Street‘s the Count, who has quite the way with numbers, and has done since his appearance on the show in 1972, but when a rogue One won’t fall into Continue Reading
COVID-19 retro movie review: Hello, My Name is Doris
We all crave connection; that deep and abiding sense that we are part of something far bigger than our own insular self and that people actually care about us and want to be with us. Sure, we can exist in our existential bubble but if that’s all you have, then Continue Reading
Watercolour wonders: Beautiful painted renderings of TV and movie homes
SNAPSHOT“…being an architect herself and a passionate film admirer Boryana senses a general gap between cinema and architecture, or in other words, a state where architects simply won’t watch enough film, at least not as phantasmal explorers. So her work is based on extracting floor plans of main character houses Continue Reading
Book review: The Bluffs by Kyle Perry
Where does true evil lie? It’s an endlessly pertinent question for anyone seeking to understand where the terrible things that befall us have their origin and what, if anything, we can do to confront or mitigate these influences. The truth is, there may be no answer to the question; while Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Bugged and a world where anyone can be who they are
Ah, the freedom to be who you want to be! Humans cherish it and so, it turns out, do bugs. Who knew? Doug Alberts I suspect, the creator of Bugged, a short but luminously-realised claymation joy in which bugs live in a natural idyll where they can do their insectorial Continue Reading
“Wrangling space babies was not part of my schedule today!” Video games come alive in Fe@rless
SNAPSHOT“‘Reid, an enthusiastic gamer, levels up to become a full-time babysitter when his favorite superhero video game drops three incredible superpowered babies, from space, into his backyard.’ The Netflix original animated superhero-family-comedy is directed and co-created by Cory Edwards. Vanguard Films and Animation, along with 3QU Media are responsible for the Continue Reading
Book review: The Phlebotomist by Chris Panatier
ARC provided by Angry Robot Books; The Phlebotomist is due for release on 8 September in UK and 8 December in Australia. One of the most rewarding aspects of reading any book, regardless of genre or author, is when the narrative doesn’t go anywhere near where you expect it to Continue Reading
Movie review: Babyteeth
Grief is often seen as a short-lived but powerful phenomenon, a vehemently chaotic upsetting of the established emotional order than sweeps in, does incalculable damage before receding leaving painfully temporary damage in its wake. People treat it as something that comes after a terrible event, a vicious interlude in the Continue Reading