In a very real sense, there are no obvious spoilers in a novel like They Both Die at the End. Adam Silvera’s achingly beautiful, New York City-set story of two older teenagers who are forced to live an entire life in one after a phone call just after midnight from Continue Reading
Sensational streaming double: Cowboy Bebop and Stranger Things (season 4)
Onward streaming addicts! Yes, that includes me, not just because there are so many good programs to check out but because during the latest lockdown, which by the time of its lifting on Monday 11 October, will have run for 15 long weeks, streaming has saved my sanity and emotional Continue Reading
Movie review: Beautiful Dreamer #Queerscreen
Life is, when you stop long enough to think about it, a series of transitions. We don’t necessarily view them that way since much of life is one hurried leap from one moment to another but with hindsight firmly engaged and a rare second to fall into introspection, you can Continue Reading
Growth is a group project: Thoughts on Sex Education (season 3)
As series accumulate seasons, they either go one of three ways. They either keep going solidly, and too often stolidly on a BAU basis, or keep trying to push the boundaries until all resemblance to the first season iteration is lost, or, and this is where the nuanced, emotionally-rich brilliance Continue Reading
Book review: Shrouded Loyalties by Reese Hogan
One of the great and laudable hallmarks of the human condition is our willingness to place trust in others. It is rarely an entirely rational act, fuelled as much by gut instinct and hope as it is by dispassionate weighing of the facts, and underpinned always by the need to Continue Reading
Fiends, omens and bogeymen – lead me your fears: Trailer lands for Muppets Haunted Mansion
SNAPSHOTIn Muppets Haunted Mansion, the Great Gonzo – world-famous daredevil artiste, has done it all, seen it all, and survived it all. But on Halloween night, the fearless Gonzo takes on the greatest challenge of his life by spending one very daring night in the grimmest-of-the-grim places on Earth… The Continue Reading
Hold on to your humanity: Invasion will test who we are as a people (full trailer)
SNAPSHOTFrom Academy Award-nominated and two-time Emmy Award-nominated producer Simon Kinberg and David Weil, Invasion is a sweeping, character-driven science fiction drama series that follows an alien invasion through different perspectives around the world. Following multiple storylines across different continents, Invasion takes a global look at how one alien invasion would Continue Reading
Movie review: Front Cover #Queerscreen
One of the great tropes of romantic comedies, indeed any love worth its red-toned, Cupid-heavy salt, is the headily appealing idea that opposites attract. There’s something inherently beguiling about the notion that two quite disparate people can find enough common ground on which to build a romance for the ages, Continue Reading
Let the adventure begin! Around the World in 80 Days starring David Tennant (trailer)
SNAPSHOTThe plot centres around Phileas Fogg (David Tennant) making a £20,000 wager with snobbish members of the prestigious Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the world in 80 days. He’s joined by his new valet Passepartout (Ibrahim Koma), and journalist Abigail Fix (Leonie Benesch). (synopsis courtesy Wikipedia) Much delayed, as Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #56: Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Ben Zaidi, Holly Humberstone, Ty Segall, Sipper + September #Eurovision update
Life, huh? It’s good, it’s bad, it’s joyous, it is most certainly not and yet one thing we can all agree on is that it is complex and just waiting for insightful, creative souls to capture in all its contradictory glory. These five artists or groups have done and then Continue Reading