SNAPSHOTNow an acclaimed live-action Netflix series! Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. This joyful trip into the LGBTQ+ world of Heartstopper is the perfect gift for anyone who loves the graphic novels or Netflix TV series – from Alice Oseman, bestselling author and winner of the Continue Reading
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas … Santa Maybe by Mary Jayne Baker (book review)
Santa Maybe was provided as a preview by NetGalley. As romantic times of the year go, surely nothing surpasses Christmas as the go-to season for falling headlong, madly, irrevocably and without regret into the welcoming arms of Cupid? Sure, you are supposed to do that on Valentine’s Day but it’s Continue Reading
The rebellion gathers pace: Andor (S1, E4-6 review)
There is a tendency, an understandable one it should be added, to view insurgencies against tyranny and authoritarianism as wholly noble and heroic. That they are noble and heroic goes without saying – you cannot take on a fight of such gargantuan, near impossible-to-win proportions and not possess impressive quantities Continue Reading
Book review: Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan
Is it possible for something as confectedly light and escapist as a rom-com to have a sense of grounded, real world humanity? And even if it is, wouldn’t that break the gossamer-lovely romantic spell that every rom-com tries to weave in ways beguiling and heart-stirringly sweet? Well, while it’s not Continue Reading
“Never a dull moment!” Star Trek Discovery S5 sets off on an epic galactic search (NYCC22 trailer)
SNAPSHOTThe New York Comic Con 2022 Star Trek Universe audience got an action-packed first look at Star Trek: Discovery Season 5. Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green), Saru (Doug Jones), Tilly (Mary Wiseman), and the rest of the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery return for an epic new season. (courtesy Paramount Plus YouTube) Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #75: ALMA, M-22 & Ella Henderson, Dylan, Rina Sawayama, MEDUZA & James Carter + new ABBA lyric video + Eurovision 2023 update
Life is a LOT. A LOT. And when it all gets so overwhelming that you don’t know which way is up, you need people who have lived and breathed the same kinds of highly emotional moments as us to really give it voice and make sense of it all. Which Continue Reading
Book review: The Last Watch (a novel of The Divide #1) by J. S. Dewes
Much as this reviewer loves wandering through bookstores and adding to a TBR pile that is tall enough to block out the sun at last count, there are times when a book buyer’s fingers lead them to online sites where apart from the book you came for, a thousand different Continue Reading
The suspense will kill you … Wednesday receives a full enthrallingly dark new trailer
SNAPSHOTA sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ time as a student at Nevermore Academy. Following Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while Continue Reading
Movie review: Ali & Ava
In general, movies have an abiding loud of love wrought in big, loud, bold movements, all meet-cutes and happenstance and colour and joy in letters that stretch to the candy-coloured heavens in neon-lit tones befitting something that is, most people would agree, WONDERFUL. And yes, while, falling in love and Continue Reading
Book review: Moon Sugar by Angela Meyer
There is something thrilling about a writer who is so acrobatic in their writing style and so skilled at their craft that they can handle a number of ideas and genre leaps in the one novel and never have it feel for a second like it’s a literary Frankenstein. Such Continue Reading