Frasier reboot (courtesy IMP Awards) One of the dilemmas of the modern streaming age is should you go back to a classic show, revisit and revise it, reboot and redo it? To be fair, it’s not the sort of questions many, if any, of the corporations behind the plethora of Continue Reading
Retro book review: Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
Classic books are hailed as classic for a reason. It’s not simply that they’ve been around for a while; plenty of tiles have and people struggle to remember titles, plots or even that they exist at all. The ones that really imprint themselves on peoples’ minds, or that really cement Continue Reading
“Every good thing in this world started with dreams… so you hold onto yours.” Wonka drops its second fabulous trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTBased on the extraordinary character at the center of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl’s most iconic children’s book & one of the best-selling children’s books of all time, Wonka tells the wondrous story of how the world’s greatest inventor, and magician, and chocolate-maker became the Continue Reading
Book review: My Father the Whale by Gina Perry
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) There is a power in confronting past hurts and grief but understandably doing so can send seismic shocks through our life that have no guarantee of a happy ending when all the agonising dust has settled. That’s the stark truth that confronts Ruby in My Continue Reading
What’s Christmas without a little terror? Be careful what you wish for with Candy Cane Lane teaser
(courtesy YouTube (c) Prime Video) SNAPSHOTEddie Murphy stars in this holiday comedy adventure about a man on a mission to win his neighborhood’s annual Christmas home decoration contest. After Chris (Eddie Murphy) inadvertently makes a deal with a mischievous elf named Pepper (Jillian Bell) to better his chances of winning, Continue Reading
Book review: The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson
(courtesy Hachette Australia) It is said that you shouldn’t never judge a book by its cover (we all do, of course, but shhh, we’re not supposed to, so mum’s the word there). But what about a title? Is that fair game for appraising how clever, fun and interesting a book Continue Reading
Movie review: The Creator
(courtesy IMP Awards) One of the things that’s so appealing about science fiction and that makes it such an engrossing genre in which to immerse yourself is its seemingly infinite capacity for carrying all kinds of ideas, both big and small. All storytelling does this, of course, but somehow science Continue Reading
Season finale fun: Ahsoka (S1, E6-8) and Only Murders in the Building (3, E9-10)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Ahsoka (S1, E6-8) Talk about sticking the landing! After daring to take us deeper into the mystical otherworld of Star Wars via the dark magic of Morgan Elsbeth (Diana Lee Inosanto) – she and the Great Mothers of Peridea make the Sith look like rank amateurs on Continue Reading
Book review: The Blighted Stars by Megan E. O’Keefe
(courtesy Hachette Australia) Character is everything in an epic space opera. Some may disagree, and no doubt will, claiming that its very storytelling DNA is given over to massive moments and breathtakingly huge narrative twists and turns and that it’s that which defines it and makes it so undeniably thrilling Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: The Last West by Evan Young & Lou Iovino (writers) and Novo Malgapo (illustrator)
(courtesy Alterna Comics (c) Evan Young & Lou Iovino) Alternate histories are a flourishing genre and a really creative way to already established events that we now take for granted but which substantially changed the way our world is and how it works. The Last West by Evan Young & Continue Reading