Love may indeed be a many-splendoured thing but in the hands of Hollywood’s filmmakers, it has often not been culturally diverse in a way that reflects the composition of many modern societies, especially ones as multiculturally diverse as the USA or Australia. Thankfully a growing group of culturally and ethnically Continue Reading
Book review: Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky #1) by Rebecca Roanhorse
A world-weary lament often thrown up, laced with more than a little weary resignation, is that there is nothing truly original under the sun, the product of the fact that though humanity is rich with imagination, that there are so many types of stories that can be told. True though Continue Reading
A small surplus of streaming options: Abbott Elementary S2, Wednesday + Pantheon
One of the many good things about the current streaming boom, with its attendant ballooning in content options, is the sheer choice available to us. It’s almost mind boggling how diverse and multitudinous the viewing options are, evidenced by this post which includes a very cleverly-written traditional-style sitcom, a fantastically Continue Reading
Same nerds, new drama: Thoughts on Never Have I Ever (season 3)
You have likely often heard middle-aged people, or those simply disappointed about the state of their lives, sigh and utter the immortal words “High school really is the best time of your life”. For the jocks and popular kids maybe but for those of us bullied to within an inch Continue Reading
Book review: The Last Library by Freya Sampson
In a lot of ways, grief essentially stops the clocks on our lives. One minute, our life is humming along with all the usual happy bells and whistles, most importantly with the presence of that very special loved on, and the next? Well, it goes off a neverending cliff into Continue Reading
Movie review: Nope
As a species, humanity has shown a healthy evolutionary disposition for engaging in flight rather than fight, the better to live and build civilisation another day. Of course, though, sometimes the challenge before us demands a fearsomely fight-driven response, something we instinctually seem to know when a particular problem plagues Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: What’s the Furthest Place From Here? by Boss and Rosenberg with Otsmane-Elhaou (issues 1-5)
There’s something brilliantly exhilarating about plunging into a graphic novel series and having only the vaguest sense of what you’re in for, especially when said series, in this case What’s the Furthest Place From Here? by Tyler Boss & Matthew Rosenberg (with Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou) takes that trust and goes to Continue Reading
Book review: The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
It is a gloriously rare thing indeed when a book comes along such as The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston which takes a well-worn premise and absolutely and completely upends it in ways both sweetly heartfelt and profoundly moving. When this happens it affirms once again that while there may Continue Reading
The last day of Bunny Folger … and beyond: Thoughts on Murders in the Building (S2, E3-6)
If you watch the light and witty trailers for Only Murders in the Building, the series about three murder-solving New Yorkers of divergent age and life experience living in the fancy Arconia apartment building, it would be all too easy to assume that the show is all quirky sweetness and Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: Funny Pages, Catherine Called Birdy + The Good House
The world is our oyster when it comes to cinematic offerings. There are films everywhere all of a sudden, then result no doubt of a pandemic bottleneck which, while not totally freed, is far more open than it was, allowing us to once more disappear into worlds far away and Continue Reading