In a world beset by a myriad of challenges right now, most notably COVID-19 and climate change, throwing yourself deep into the expansive surrounds of a brilliantly-written soap opera can be the panacea for a host of reality-driven ills. If you feel the need for such a diversionary road, you Continue Reading
TV cartoon fun! Say hello to Jellystone! and Chip and Dale
I am a big kid at heart. One of the most obvious manifestations of my childlike-ness is my love of animation, which began all the way back when, at it does for so many people, when I was a kid. I have enormously fond memories of school holidays or Saturday Continue Reading
Dance! Sing! And fall in love in Schmigadoon!
SNAPSHOTDescribed as a parody of iconic Golden Age musicals, Schmigadoon! centers around a couple on a backpacking trip designed to reinvigorate their relationship as they accidentally discover a magical town living in a 1940s musical. They then learn that they can’t leave until they find “true love.” The six-episode season Continue Reading
The end of our world is the beginning of his: Thoughts on Sweet Tooth
MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD … AND GLORIOUSLY EXCESSIVE SUGAR CONSUMPTION AND TOY DOG MONITORING … Watching a must-see series about the near-end of the world caused by a virulent flu-like disease at a time when the world is still struggling to get on top of a virulent flu-like disease must seem Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Suicide Squad, The Duke, The Harder They Fall, Twist, Joe Bell + The Green Knight (featurette)
As I put this post together, Sydney, Australia, where I live, has just, and I mean just entered a fortnight lockdown to combat the spread of the incredibly virulent Delta strain of COVID-19. It’s exhausting to be back in another lockdown but what makes it worse is that there are Continue Reading
Aliens are coming … The countdown to Invasion
SNAPSHOTSet across multiple continents, Invasion follows an alien invasion through different perspectives around the world. Earth is visited by an alien species that threatens humanity’s existence. Events unfold in real-time through the eyes of five ordinary people across the globe as they struggle to make sense of the chaos unraveling around them. Continue Reading
Book review: One Hundred Days by Alice Pung
As a people, and even in the face of all evidence to the contrary, we like to believe that things can be as good as our daydreams. We see families as Norman Rockwell paintings of domestic perfection, Christmas as a uniform time of seamless joy and warm-spirited harmony and love, Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Sea of Stars (issues 1 -5) by Jason Aaron + Dennis Hallum, Stephen Green and Rico Renzi
If you read enough space operatic science fiction, it becomes clear that the far and even near reaches of the galaxy are an endlessly exciting place of intrigue, mystery and anti-humdrum. But what if that’s not entirely the case and that being out amongst the stars is all bit been-there-done-that, Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #50: BSÍ, OhEm, Chemical Brothers, Kele, Lauren Aquilina + find out How to Eurovision with Ukraine …
Good times or bad, we all need music. Lots and lots of meaningful, thoughtful, heartfelt music, the kind that can make sense of the world around us and make even the worst of things not feel so quite impenetrable or hard to understand. These five artists have clearly thought hard Continue Reading
A loveable trail of destruction on Disney Plus: Turner & Hooch goes TV episodic
SNAPSHOTWhen an ambitious, buttoned-up US Marshal inherits a big unruly dog, he soon realizes the dog he didn’t want may be the partner he needs. Turner & Hooch stars Josh Peck as Scott Turner Jr., the son of Tom Hanks’s character from the original film. Joining him as the titular Continue Reading