If you have ever, EVER, felt like a weirdo, an outsider, the strange one, the outlier or the very square peg in a mainstream round hole, then the Addams Family has likely always felt like your freaky home away from home. It makes sense – here are a group who Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young and Jorge Corona
Halloween is a lot of things, scary, dark and horrifying well among them. The Me You Love in the Dark by Skottie Young (I HATE FAIRYLAND) and Jorge Corona (NO. 1 WITH A BULLET) embraces all those tantalising terrific elements, and much more, in a seductively disturbing tale of what Continue Reading
#Halloween book review: Hide by Kiersten White
It’s a truism long observed that humanity is often the biggest monster at any given table. No matter what the threat is or what destructive horror it might bring to bear, it always seems to be people who are the scary ingredients in any terror cocktail, whether it’s battling aliens, Continue Reading
Everything’s scarily, hilariously meta this #Halloween: Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!
If there’s one thing that Scooby-Doo! has had going for it as a long-running series all these years, and let’s face it there’s a lot of them, it’s its propensity to not take itself too seriously. After all, you have four teenagers and a Great Dane dog – who can Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: Cover reveal for J. S. Dewes’ next novel Rubicon + trailer released for The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
There’s always a lot going on in the publishing world with books arriving on a happy tsunami of reading possibilities and those same books, if the author is lucky (and with the ravenous maw of streaming services these days, more are being offered adaptation deals), finding their way to a Continue Reading
Christmas trailers Ho Ho Ho! Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special + The Santa Clauses
My heart is glad! It really is beginning to look a LOT like Christmas as trailers begin to drop like snow upon a traditional festive scene and we get to see all the new Christmas shows that will be joining old classic favourites in our viewing schedule. Of course, until Continue Reading
Movie review: Black Adam
Getting something down to a fine art is one of those glitteringly positive phrases that suggests with effortless ease that you have mastered something to such a degree that you will only ever do it well now and well into the future. Inlaid with this supposition is that if you’re Continue Reading
Book review: With Love From Wish & Co by Minnie Darke
Life is so big and vast and full of people, things and events that we often forget that its rising and falling often rests on the smallest and most transitory of moments. Take the moment when seriously talented gift-giver, Marnie Fairchild, the protagonist of Minnie Darke’s latest emotionally resonant rom-com Continue Reading
Movie review: DC League of Super-Pets
Who knew superhero pet owning could be this much fun? Well, co-writer (with John Whittington) and director of DC League of Super Pets Jared Stern who takes a cute idea – what if Superman (John Krasinski) had a dog, Krypto (Dwayne Johnson) who came with him all the way with Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The magically romantic intervention of The Wish Granter
SNAPSHOTSet in a world where wishes are granted by mythical beings that live under fountains, an apathetic wish granter is forced to go above ground to grant a wish of love. (courtesy CGMeetup/YouTube) We are well schooled now in the idea that life comes with a plethora of multiverse moments. Continue Reading