Growing up is not easy. We all know that much; if you were paying attention growing up, and most of us were, you’ll have realised pretty quickly that life often treated you as a chew toy to be gnawed on over and over, vigorously shaken from side-to-side like you were Continue Reading
Intimate moments on an epic scale: Thoughts on Invasion (S1, E 1-3)
We have been conditioned over many decades of enrapturing TV and movie storytelling to see alien invasions as a bombastically epic event. And to be fair, they are are to a large extent; you don’t just subsume an entire planet to your own will, using overwhelming amounts of military technology Continue Reading
Book review: The Hush by Sara Foster
Thrillers are wonderfully escapist books to read. Fuelled with adrenaline, powered by judiciously-placed reveals and always moving at something near to the speed of narrative light, they are a genre that is perfectly placed to take us on a wild journey that, happily in our famously loose end-addicted world where Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Hungry seagull gets what he wants … or does he … in DEAD MEAT
SNAPSHOT“I’m [Adnan Mohamed] proud to present an Animated short that I have worked on during my time at Vancouver Film School! … For a long time I wanted to animate something that makes people giggle and feel joy in a weird way, because everybody gets silly sometimes and I feel Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #58: Agnes, The Regrettes, iamnotshane, Running Touch, Flight Facilities (feat. BROODS) + new ABBA single + Eurovision 2022 update
What a year! So much pressure and exhaustion and dashed hopes and expectations as COVID once again trashed its way across normal life and left us wondering which way is up and what is time. Thankfully, while we have felt trapped in a prison not of our making, some very Continue Reading
Book review: The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris
There are some words that are thrown around with such giddy abandon and greeting card snappiness that we’re apt to see them as lightweight sentiments that have no real substance and can bear no real weight. “Hope” is one of those words, filled with longing and expectation and optimism, it Continue Reading
The musical majesty of Maya and the Three: Listen to ‘The Tecas Ride”
SNAPSHOT“In a fantastical world, where magic turns the world and four kingdoms rule the lands, a brave and rebellious warrior princess named Maya is about to celebrate her fifteenth birthday and coronation. But everything changes when the gods of the underworld arrive and announce that Maya’s life is forfeit to Continue Reading
Star Trek: Lower Decks – thoughts on season 2 (episodes 6-10)
One of the great delights of watching a show in its second season is witnessing how it matures and grows into something that very much keeps the soul of its season one iteration alive and kicking, which is important since that’s why stuck with the show in the first place, Continue Reading
DC Fandome reveals: Aquaman: The Lost Kingdom, Shazam! Fury of the Gods, DC League of SuperPets, Peacemaker
Massve, worldwide virtual launches seem to be all the rage when it comes to promoting upcoming movies, TV shows etc. It’s been propelled along, of course, by COVID, which has made in-person events problematic at best and has forced companies like DC Comics (they announced this event in response to Continue Reading
Book review: Deficiency by S. C. Eston
There are sage and oft-repeated words of warning that go something along the lines of, depending on your paraphrase of choice, that “if it looks too good t be true, it usually is.” It might feel like that phrase has been intoned so often that it has lost all meaning Continue Reading