(courtesy Hachette Australia) Christmas tales are, by and large, all about transformation and redemption. At what is styled at the most wonderful time of the year, everything is supposed to be possible and that includes giving a festive glow-up to lives that have languished and sorrowed in the other 11 Continue Reading
#ChristmasInJuly review redux: Dare to fall in love with Dash & Lily
If you are one of a more romantic persuasion than most, then you will find a great deal to like about a show that combines romantic comedy and Christmas, two genres that together account for much of the swoon-worthy, sigh-worthy, rose-coloured glass wearing wonder that makes the escapist part of Continue Reading
Weekend character poster pop art: The multi-coloured fun and meaning of Barbie
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTBarbie is a … romantic comedy film based on the eponymous fashion doll line by Mattel and directed by Greta Gerwig, who co-wrote the screenplay with Noah Baumbach. It serves as the franchise’s first live-action film adaptation after a number of computer-animated direct-to-video and streaming TV films Continue Reading
Book review: The Fancies by Kim Lock
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) A lot of people may feel like they don’t have a narrative bone in their body but the truth is, to one degree or another, we are all storytellers. Not necessarily out loud, although the creative types among most definitely are, but within, with the Continue Reading
Mini mass of movie trailers: Aporia, Problemista Jules, Love at First Sight and Migration
(via Shutterstock) Cinema is back baby! Fresh from attending a mid-week preview of screening of Barbie which was packed full of men and women in shockingly fabulous shades of luminescent pink, and hearing tales of subsequent sold-out nights of Barbie and Oppenheimer – released on the same day in a Continue Reading
Movie review: Barbie
(courtesy IMP Awards) There’s a strangely superficial idea floating in the collective thinkosphere that if something is colourful and confected and fun, it can’t possibly having any weight to it – thematic, emotional or otherwise. And while sure that’s true with some deliberately light and bright things, the collective catch-all Continue Reading
Comics review: Star Trek – Discovery – Adventures in the 32nd Century by Mike Johnson, Angel Fernandez and JD Mettler
(courtesy IDW Publishing) SNAPSHOTExplore the far future of Star Trek in these adventures set after the U.S.S. Discovery’s jump forward in time at the end of Season Two! Uncover new stories of four fan-favorite characters! First up, Grudge—who is very much a queen and NOT a cat—works tirelessly to keep Continue Reading
The legend has arrived: The Monkey King makes his hilarious presence felt in new trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThe Monkey King is an action-packed family comedy that follows a rebellious and charismatic Monkey and his magical fighting Stick on an epic quest for victory over 100 demons, an eccentric Dragon King, and Monkey’s greatest foe of all — his own ego! Along the way, a Continue Reading
Sci-fi review double: Foundation (S2, E1) and Strange New Worlds (S2, E4 & 5)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Foundation (S2, E1) Cataclysm in slow motion is once again the order of the day as Foundation, base don the work of the great Isaac Asimov ushers in its second season with “In Seldon’s Shadow”. A show known for its lush nuanced stroll towards a civilisational apocalypse Continue Reading
Book review: Frontier by Grace Curtis
(courtesy Goodreads) In a field as venerable and well-established as science fiction, with tropes plenty and cliches to burn, it can be challenging, though clearly not impossible as an impressive number of recent new books in the genre attest, to come up with something truly, mesmerisingly new. And even if Continue Reading