Blockbusters, especially those bouncing with superhuman dexterity and grace off the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) production line, rarely have tangibly real emotion in abundance. But Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, written and directed by Ryan Coogler (he co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Robert Cole) seems determined to prove that this is Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Low (Vol. 2 – 4) by Remender, Tocchini, McCaig
Hope is usually not something in plentiful supply at the end of the world. Or if the superlative storytelling in Low by Rick Remender (writer) and Greg Tocchini (artist) with colours by Dave McCaig is to be believed, for quite a few millennia afterwards. In the long-running graphic novel series, Continue Reading
It’s the things we do that mean the most: John Lewis unveils its 2022 Christmas ad
SNAPSHOTThis Christmas it’s about what we do that matters most. That’s why we used our advert this Christmas to highlight an issue close to hearts, so that together, we can be a force for positive change for a generation of young people growing up in care or who have experienced Continue Reading
Book review: Annie Stanley All At Sea by Sue Teddern
At one key point in the sublime but emotionally honest loveliness that is Annie Stanley All At Sea, the eminently assured novel of Sue Teddern, our far-too-hard-in-herself protagonist sagely observes that there are simply some chapters in your life to which you cannot add a definitive “The End”. Given our Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The skeletally charming heart of Rebooted
SNAPSHOTIt’s not easy for a movie-star to age – especially when you’re a stop motion animated skeleton monster. Phil, once a terrifying villain of the silver-screen, struggles to find work in modern Hollywood due to being an out-of-date special effect. Rebooted is written & directed by Australian filmmaker Michael Shanks Continue Reading
Movie review: Enola Holmes 2
Pick an upbeat word, any upbeat word, and there’s a very good chance the dictionary will say point you straight to Enola Holmes 2. Leaving aside why the good burghers of dictionary-dom would do this, save for the fact that they, like us, have been utterly beguiled by the sparkly Continue Reading
Book review: Meet Me in the Margins by Melissa Ferguson
There is, they say, nothing new under the sun. Hyperbolic spin artists may beg to disagreed, seeking to convince that their new x, y or z is totally, excitingly, thrillingly new, but the truth is pretty much everything has been done before by someone somewhere, or usually some when, and Continue Reading
More Wednesday on a Friday! Title sequence plus character posters …
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
Time to head back to our favourite mammal metropolis! Zootopia+ drops trailer
SNAPSHOTZootopia+ heads back to the fast-paced mammal metropolis of Zootopia in a short-form streaming series that dives deeper into the lives of some of the Oscar-winning movie’s most intriguing residents, including: Fru Fru, the fashion-forward arctic shrew; ZPD dispatcher Clawhauser, the sweet-toothed cheetah; and Flash, the smiling sloth who’s full Continue Reading
A comeback that’s long overdue: Thoughts on Blockbuster
Workplace comedies are a tale as old as time. Well, as old as TV anyway which embraced the idea of humour derived from banal everyday work environments – the “sit” to the “com” – pretty much from the get-go, realising that in all that wage-earning ordinariness was an hilarity-inducing mix Continue Reading