(courtesy IMP Awards) Adopting any book to film is a fraught exercise but especially so when it is as beloved and treasured as Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, a book about young gay love released in 2012 which has gone to become Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Indigo Children by Rockwell White and Curt Pires (writers) + Alex Diotto and Dee Cunniffe (artists)
(courtesy Image Comics) One of the rare thrills in life, which rarely is as exciting as we want it to be, is diving deep into a promising science fiction story and finding it is just as brilliantly engaging, if not more so, than you expected. Especially if the story in Continue Reading
Book review: Someone Else’s Bucket List by Amy T. Matthews
(courtesy Simon & Schuster Australia) If you have ever experienced the true cataclysmic abyss of grief, you will know, all too painfully, how completely it consumes you. You often have no choice but to get on with life but the truth is, for a good long while (let’s be honest, Continue Reading
Slightly late Valentines Day movie review: Fallen Leaves (Kuolleet lehdet)
(courtesy IMP Awards) In most romantic tales, love is writ big, large and heart-swooningly bold. We’re told that falling in love is the stuff of epic legend and transformative change, and true, it often can be, and so the stories we see, often on the big screen, are massive in Continue Reading
Rise from the fall: Thoughts on Halo season 2 (E1-3)
(courtesy IMP Awards) You can’t help but feel, as Halo sets out on its second season deep in the war-troubled depths of the 26th-century where humanity has colonised the stars and found that not all the neighbours are welcoming, that bad things are coming and they are coming up fast. Continue Reading
Welcome to Wonka Land: Go behind-the-scenes with 2023’s most deliciously fantastical film
(courtesy IMP Awards) “So quiet up, and listen down. Nope. Scratch that, reverse it.” When it comes to diving behind the scenes of a favourite movie or TV show, you either relish the chance to have the curtain pulled back or you blanche in horror at the idea that you’ll Continue Reading
Two friends, two worlds, one future: Full trailer debuts for Iwájú
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIwájú is an original animated series set in a futuristic Lagos, Nigeria, co-produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The exciting coming-of-age story follows Tola – a young girl from the wealthy island, and her best friend, Kole, a self-taught tech expert, as they discover the secrets & Continue Reading
Book review: Artificial Condition (Murderbot Diaries #2) by Martha Wells
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) If you think the only place you will find generous amount of narrative humanity is in a book solely about actual people, then the Murderbot series by Martha Wells will have you thinking again. The first entry in the series, which kicked off in 2017, All Continue Reading
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown #ValentinesDay
(courtesy IMDb) Love, sweet love … ain’t it the greatest? Well, yes, but not if you’re Charlie Brown sadly and no one, I repeat no one, is giving you Valentines, and in public, on the big day! The attitude, as expressed by Lucy (Melanie Kohn) in her trademark scornfully dismissive Continue Reading
Book review: Milo and Marcos at the End of the World by Kevin Christopher Snipes #ValentinesDay
(courtesy Harper Collins Australia) Unless you’ve grown in the church, it’s near impossible to fully appreciate just how all that corrosively twisted dogma can seep into your mind, heart and soul and turn your nice and healthy nascent humanity into something that looks like Eton Mess (a deliciously chaotic English Continue Reading