SNAPSHOTA social satire set at an exclusive Hawaiian resort, The White Lotus follows the vacations of various hotel guests over the span of a week as they relax and rejuvenate in paradise. But with each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel’s cheerful employees, and Continue Reading
Book review: Architect of Memory by Karen Osborne
Space is not a welcoming environment. The stars may look pretty twinkling far above us on a blue-green ball but venture into the galaxy and you are confronted by a host of challenges, not least of which is humanity itself who in Karen Osborne’s Architects of Memory (A Memory War Continue Reading
Happiness is belonging: New trailer and poster for Swedish animation gem Ape Star
SNAPSHOTJonna is a feisty young orphan who wants to be adopted more than anything. But when her potential new mom drives up to the orphanage, she gets a big shock when the door opens and a gorilla steps out! The ape and girl quickly overcome their physical differences. But will Continue Reading
Weekend TV character poster art: The many faces of Loki
SNAPSHOTLoki features the God of Mischief as he steps out of his brother’s shadow in a new series that takes place after the events of Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Endgame. Tom Hiddleston returns as the title character, joined by Owen Wilson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Sophia Di Martino, Wunmi Mosaku, and Richard E. Continue Reading
Movie review: A Quiet Place II
There are, so the cliched-inclined tell us, only two things that are certain in life – death and taxes. To this exceptionally short and likely inaccurate list, a great many people might also add, that the sequel to a hit movie will inevitably be a woeful and unmitigated mess, or Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Concrete and finding your place in the world
SNAPSHOTTroubled by his own reoccurring transformations, a restless backpacker seeks his place in the world. Through a mysterious encounter in a concrete building in the midst of a barren swampland, he hopes to have finally found such a place. (synopsis via YouTube Short of the Week) Concrete, despite its many Continue Reading
Book review: Digging Up Dirt by Pamela Hart
It is always a delight to come across a novel that embodies the very best of a genre and yet also manages to be its own marvellously unique creation. Digging Up Dirt by Pamela Hart sits very much in that rarefied camp, a book that manages to give Agatha Christie Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Inkblot (issues 1 – 5) by Emma Kubert and Rusty Gladd
We’ve all had bad days at work, right? Sent an email with highly confidential comments meant for one person and one person only to Reply All. Or we’ve accidentally deleted a document we spent all day on and no amount of IT wizardry can summon it back from the Microsoft Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “In Dreams” / “J.D.” (S6, E12 & E13 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND DEATH, IMAGINED AND REAL WITH BATTLES TO COME … You could well argue that life in the zombie apocalypse is so weird and strange for all its grinding, violent realism, that there is no need to get caught in a surreal dream set in the same Continue Reading
Book review: Dreamland by Rosa Rankin-Gee
If you have been paying attention to the world of late, wrapped up rather despairingly as it is in pandemic, war, climate change and creeping intolerance and extremism, it will not surprise you that hope is in short supply for many people. How can it possibly assert itself in any Continue Reading