January 15, 2021 – SparklyPrettyBriiiight

Star Trek: Discovery: “That Hope is You, Part 2” (S3, E3 review)

Posted on January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 by aussiemoose

SPOILERS AHEAD … BADASSERY, BROKEN HOLOS AND THE POWER OF FOUND FAMILIES … Wow, well, the final episode of Star Trek: Discovery season 3 is utterly rip your heart out, put it in again brilliant with the humanity of the full speed ahead storyline so breathtakingly good that you have Continue Reading

Mini-mass of movie trailers: Malcolm & Marie, Outside the Wire, Persian Lessons

Posted on January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 by aussiemoose

What a strange holiday period 2020 into 2021 turned out to be. No surprise there since 2020 was, by any and all measures, a very, very strange and disconcerting year but even so, you hope for something magical from the Christmas period, right? Hope springs eternal and all that … Continue Reading

Songs, songs and more songs #41: Solardo & Rowetta, Torren Foot, Kult Kyss, kenzie, Anna Lunoe

Posted on January 15, 2021January 15, 2021 by aussiemoose

Life is hard. So, you need something to make it lighter, brighter and easier such as these five songs from artists who know we are living in pandemic hell but still no good reason why you can’t have some super upbeat, brilliantly danceable fun. And fun you will have with Continue Reading

Feel good fabulousness with new trailer and poster for Paddington in Peru (Paddington 3)

(courtesy Bleeding Cool / © 2024 CTMG, Inc. All Rights Reserved.) SNAPSHOTPaddington in Peru brings Paddington’s story to Peru as he returns to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery Continue Reading

Post Halloween book review: Heads Will Roll by Josh Winning

If you have ever watched a slasher flick – think the Scream series or the Halloween franchise starring Jamie Lee Curtis to name just two of many – you will be well acquainted with the prevailing tropes and cliches of the genre. Eminently disposable characters suddenly find themselves stalked and Continue Reading

Halloween graphic novel review: The Stuff of Legend – Book 2: The Jungle by Mike Raight and Brian Smith with illustrations by Charles Paul Wilson III

Being afraid of the dark is one of those thing childish things we re supposed to put aside as we grow older. After all, the idea that evil and terrible things lurk in the places where there is no light, where our view is limited or outright obscured, is surely Continue Reading

Velma: This halloween needs to be more special! … and thoughts on seasons 1 and 2

(courtesy IMP Awards) VELMA 2024 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL SNAPSHOTWith just 24 hours to bring Velma back, the friends search for a dark spellbook while trying to avoid the wrath of a vengeful spirit. But as the annual Sexy Halloween party nears, Velma and the gang must face their biggest fears… if Continue Reading

Deep TBR Halloween book review: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

(courtesy Argyll Productions) If you have ever seen a medieval battle scene where an army of armour and arrows and trebuchets (great big wooden slingy things) is laying siege to a walled city or castle, you will be well acquainted with how these conflicts generally go. There are lots of Continue Reading

Scary haha! Triple animated Halloween specials review – Family Guy, Sing and Bad Guys

(via Shutterstock) Get ready to be scared! Or amused! Or both? Being animated specials aimed mostly, but not exclusively – see special #1 for example – at kids, the scares, such as they are, are lighthearted and funny, the perfect way to celebrate Halloween if, like this reviewer, you are Continue Reading

Book review: All the Galaxies by Philip Miller

(courtesy Allen & Unwin Book Publishers) After watching far too many books sit trapped in my To Be Read (TBR) pile for years and years, I decided it was high time a month was devoted to rescuing them from the reading void and diving into their promising stories. So, for Continue Reading

Christmas romance movie preview: The Merry Gentlemen + Hot Frosty

(via Shutterstock) It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and it’s beginning to look a lot like, you know, and yes, every single very Christmassy phrase is being engaged right now because the festive season is so close we can taste it (I mean, literally taste it; here in Continue Reading

Comedy mystery review round-up: Only Murders in the Building S4, E4-8 and Bad Monkey S1, 8-10

(courtesy IMP Awards) Only Murders in the Building S4, E4-8 What beautifully wrought five episodes. While the expected sleuthing twists and turns are well and truly present & accounted for, in almost gasp-worthy, cliffhanger number, what emerges quite powerfully, as it always does in Only Murders in the Building is Continue Reading

Movie review: From Hilde, With Love (In Liebe, Eure Hilde)

(courtesy IMDB) There has likely never been an age in which humanity hasn’t had to battle against some form of tyranny or another, but in 2024, the pressing need to take a stand against the monstrous autocracy of fascism and its barbaric intent to shape life in its own twisted Continue Reading