People coming together in found families is something particularly new or original in literature of late, a theme that has found currency in our ironically disconnected digital age where finding your tribe has been a prevailing need for many lost souls in search of an emotional home. So, the fact Continue Reading
Weekday movie poster art: Unhappy to see you again with The Addams Family 2
SNAPSHOTEveryone’s favorite spooky family is back in the animated comedy sequel, The Addams Family 2. In this all-new movie we find Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with “scream time.” To reclaim their bond they decide to cram Wednesday, Pugsley, Continue Reading
Book review: The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown by Vaseem Khan
In a world where many feel justice is scant and those in power or with the means to insulate themselves from consequence seem to get off scot-free far more than they don’t, there’s something intrinsically compelling about mystery and crime novels that often the reader the chance to experience the Continue Reading
Have a Merry Madagascar! #ChristmasInJuly
Much as I love the idea of Santa with his “a little round belly /That shook when he laughed, like a bowl full of jelly” and his eight magical reindeer and delivering all those presents around the world with seamless efficiency and jollity, there is something a little creepy about Continue Reading
In the middle of COVID lockdown, I put 5 new pop culture ornaments on my #ChristmasInJuly tree
It’s not looking like the most festive of Julys at the moment. A combination of complacency and Australian Federal Government ineptitude with quarantining returning overseas travellers and the vaccine rollout mean Sydney, where I live, is deep in the midst of a fortnight lockdown, that may yet get extended by Continue Reading
Weekday poster pop art: Jungle Cruise debuts new character images
SNAPSHOTInspired by the famous Disneyland theme park ride, Disney’s Jungle Cruise is an adventure-filled, rollicking thrill-ride down the Amazon with wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff and intrepid researcher Dr. Lily Houghton. Lily travels from London, England to the Amazon jungle and enlists Frank’s questionable services to guide her downriver on La Continue Reading
Movie review: Good on Paper
The habitually cynical and mistrusting excepted, people are by and large quite willing to believe the best of someone else. It makes sense – we want a world in which people are who they say they are, in which those in whom we placed our trust and with whom we Continue Reading