Finding the truth of who you are is something that comes to some people early in life, a lightning bolt of self-recognition that sets them off on an unalterable course for the rest of their days, and to others, much later on, a disrupting epiphany that upends the status quo Continue Reading
Book review: The Vintage Shop of Second Chances by Libby Page
There are a great many times in life when things feel so limited and finite, and defiantly, unhealingly one way. No matter how much we yearn for a something new to life us from a too well-carved rut or for life to bring us meaningful connection or for closure to Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: Graphic novel Alice Ever After now available in volume 1 collection
SNAPSHOTAlice first visited Wonderland as a child. Now grown up, it’s become her only escape from a cold, harsh world that feels even less real—a distant family, a tormented lover, and a father with secrets he’ll do anything to protect. But in order to return to her fantasy, Alice will Continue Reading
Book review: A Man and His Pride by Luke Rutledge
As a gay man, you commonly come across the idea that the life you lead must be one of endless partying, unremitting casual sex and a fabulousness wrapped in feather boas, soaked in glitter and strung about with rainbow-hued neon. That’s understandable in one sense since it is the popular Continue Reading
Movie review: The Innocent (L’innocent)
Family life is never as picture perfect as we’d like it to be. For many of us that simply means things are a little quirky or dysfunctional instead of Hallmark-ready sigh worthy but for others, such as The Innocent (L’Innocent)‘s Abel (Louis Garrel who also directed and co-wrote the film), Continue Reading
Laughing on the way to solving a mystery: Thoughts on Poker Face (S1, E1-5)
Have you ever wondered, and if not, why not, what a reboot of Murder, She Wrote would be like if Jessica Fletcher (played by the delightfully talented and now sadly departed Angela Lansbury) was a minimum-wage worker (and sometimes not even that), on the run from organised crime casino-owning thugs, Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: The Magician’s Elephant, Tetris and John Wick: Chapter 4
As with any storytelling medium, there’s a huge diversity of narrative options in movies. That’s on vibrantly full display with today’s selection which encompasses an animated search for belonging and connection, some tense Cold War politicking bundled up with an origin story and some good old-fashioned, globetrotting shoot-em-up vengeance like Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Fairlady (Volume 1) by Brian Schirmer, Claudia Balboni and Marissa Louise
Postmodern storytelling, that eclectic mixing of genres that characterises so much modern narrative activity, can really pay off in the right dividends. Far from being gimmicky, adroit bringing together of seemingly disparate elements can work spectacularly well as novel Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree made hilariously and affectingly clear Continue Reading
Book review: The Last Love Note by Emma Grey
If you were to believe popular culture, and it’s chock full of alluringly escapist ideas about how life should be so why the hell wouldn’t you, you can experience the most resoundingly destructive romantic grief, and then not much later, by dint of a meet-cute, the exchange of a few Continue Reading
Between midlife crisis and full blown meltdown … and an angry goose: Lucky Hank drops first full trailer
SNAPSHOTLucky Hank is a mid-life crisis tale set at Railton College, told in the first person by William Henry “Hank” Devereaux, Jr. (Odenkirk), the unlikely chair of the English department in a badly underfunded college in a working-class American town. His discontent is rooted in unresolved issues with his father, Continue Reading