Grief is a cruel and strangely capricious thing. One second you are right as rain, or as close to it as you get in the aftermath of great pain and loss, and the next? Well, the next you are lost again in all manner of deep and abiding sadness, the Continue Reading
Book review: Good Eggs by Rebecca Hardiman
Meeting Millie Gogarty is likely one of the best things you’ll ever do in life. An 83-year-old Irish woman from the village of Dun laogshire in Dublin, Ireland, Millie is growing old, to co-opt a well worn phrase, disgracefully. Not that she is necessarily try to settle into a rebellious Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Stray Dogs by Tony Fleecs and Trish Forstner
Stray Dogs is a wickedly clever and charmingly unnerving graphic novel. At first glance, it is all Secret Life of Pets meets 101 Dalmatians meets All Dogs Go to Heaven, a veritable warm hug of a love letter to humanity’s best friend and the selfless people who rescue them from Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Glory in the The Legend Of The Crabe Phare
SNAPSHOTThe Crabe Phare is a colossal crustacean who lives at the bottom of the ocean. When this mammoth creature rises from the deep, he doesn’t have destruction on his mind. Instead, he wants to collect and preserve ships to add to his underwater collection. The huge creature is not the Continue Reading
Book review: The Apocalypse Seven by Gene Doucette
Apocalypses are usually pretty intense affairs. How can they not be? The world is ended, much life has been lost (or reanimated), civilisation has fallen and those caught up in it, know, they just know, that somehow if they manage to survive life will never be the same again. So, Continue Reading
Behind the scenes: Meet the REAL Lucky the Pizza Dog from Hawkeye
SNAPSHOTFormer Avenger Clint Barton has a seemingly simple mission: get back to his family for Christmas. Possible? Maybe with the help of Kate Bishop, a 22-year-old archer with dreams of becoming a Super Hero. The two are forced to work together when a presence from Barton’s past threatens to derail Continue Reading
A deserted moon base. A deadly mission. Thoughts on The Silent Sea
The very best science fiction stories are almost always searing explorations of what it means to be human. It doesn’t matter if they are set on a future Earth, out in the depths of interstellar space or on an alien planet, we bear witness to the very best and worst Continue Reading
Breathing life into our world: The Green Planet
SNAPSHOTDive into a world where a single life can last a thousand years, with David Attenborough. See things no eye has ever seen, and discover the dramatic, beautiful plant life of Earth. (synopsis courtesy BBC) There’s a lot going on in the world right now capable of crushing the human Continue Reading
Book review: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
We live in a world capable of great beauty and enormous cruelty. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, her first fictional book after non-fiction works detailing her time as a wildlife scientist in Africa, captures these two opposing and yet often cheek-by-jowl parts of life in heartrendingly moving writing Continue Reading
A mini mass of movie trailers: Tytöt Tytöt Tytöt (Girl Picture), Moonfall + A Taste of Hunger
Once more COVID has locked me out of cinemas. This time it’s the Omicron variant running rampant, and while an official lockdown isn’t in effect in Sydney, or anywhere in Australia for that matter, most people are choosing to stay home and avoid public places of any kind. This aversion Continue Reading