People like, no, NEED to feel grounded and connected. Without that sense that we belong somewhere, to someone or to a particular time and place, we feel lost and unmoored, a debilitating condition that sends life into an agonisingly enervating limbo. Eileen Garvin explores exactly how this feels, with tenderness, Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Deep Beyond (issues 1-6) created by Mirka Arndolfo, David Goy, Andrea Broccardo and Barbara Nosenso
Stepping in a science fiction tale ripe with promise only to find it is all that you expect it to be and expansively so much more is one of life’s great pleasures. Well, on the assumption that you like science fiction aka sci-fi, of course. If you do, then you Continue Reading
Every body has a secret: Only Murders in the Building (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOTOnly Murders In The Building follows three strangers who share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one as they investigate the mysterious death of a neighbour in their New York City apartment building. (synopsis courtesy TV Blackbox) I read a lot as a kid. Hardly Continue Reading
Book review: Dog Days by Ericka Waller
Humanity doesn’t do well with brokenness. Not so much the being in it, although god knows none of us like to loiter there for too long, but with the concept of brokenness itself, that troubling, unsettling sense that life is not as perfect or idyllic as we want it to Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The past and the present meet awkwardly in BOUNTY
SNAPSHOTAn ex-bounty hunter makes breakfast with his young daughter, who becomes increasingly curious about his past profession. (synopsis courtesy YouTube (c) Studio Anomi) BOUNTY is a powerfully succinct piece of short form animation. It tells the story of a man whose daughter begins to ask him innocent questions about his Continue Reading
Movie review: Jungle Cruise
If there is one thing movies have had an undeniable lock on since their earliest days, it’s the ability to transport us far away from the world we left outside the cinema doors and do in a way so absolute and complete that only books come close to matching it. Continue Reading
Book review: Eye of the Sh*t Storm (A Frost Files novel) by Jackson Ford
Los Angeles has clearly done something to make the universe determined to wipe it off the face of the map. Or at least that part of the universe that has fantastical powers and a sociopathic, the world-done-me-wrong mindset, the drivers of action in Jackson’s Ford’s first two Frost Files books Continue Reading