(courtesy IMDb) Ruts – some people love and crave them; most people though hate them, grudgingly only accepting their existence because life is so busy and full and unrelenting, that stopping to blender them up exuberantly into something refreshingly and excitingly new seems like far too much trouble. And who Continue Reading
“I feel so ready” – Alice & Jack serves up an honest look at romantic love
SNAPSHOTAlice & Jack reveals how love plays out between two very different people over 15 years. The story explores the seminal question of whether the bonds between us are stronger than the forces that would tear us apart. “It’s more honest about human behavior than most romances allow,” says RogerEbert.com, Continue Reading
Book review: Dragging Mason County by Curtis Campbell
(courtesy Annick Press) When you read about some conservative group or another working to ban gay this or bay that in the dubiously-expressed, and wafer-thin justified – let’s be honest, not even that; bigotry seems to thrive on vehement, evidence-free denunciation and little else – it’s often presented as little Continue Reading
Best friends get lost in the multiverse! Trailer debuts for Davey & Jonesie’s Locker
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThe original series follows Davey and Jonesie, two lovably eccentric best friends who have always felt out of step with their peers and the banal backdrop of their high school existence. So, when they discover their locker is a portal to the multiverse, they’re more than ready Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Gnome and the trouble with bothersome noise
(courtesy Blender Artists (c) Sacha Goedegebure) SNAPSHOTOur PG rated short film is an unexpected tale of a Gnome returning home from a day of collecting nuts and finding a caterpillar struggling to reach for leaves outside his house. The good-natured gnome helps the caterpillar and gives it some leaves to Continue Reading
Book review: The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) One of the things that makes reading such an escapist pleasure is when an author takes a well-worn concept, one that should by rights have no fresh mileage or capacity to surprise left in its tired, narrative-driving bones, and totally and utterly turns it gloriously on Continue Reading
Movie review: Housekeeping For Beginners #MGFF24
(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s tempting to think of families are solely places of bountiful joy and unconditional love; after all, in a world that seethes with contempt and cruelty and seems to delight in isolation and aloneness, families are a selfless bastion of all that is good and wonderful, and Continue Reading
Sci-fi double review: Constellation (E1-4) and Halo (S2, E4-5)
(courtesy IMP awards) ——————– SPOILERS AHEAD !!!!!!!!!! ——————– AppleTV+ is showing a brilliant inclination for commissioning thoughtful, epic sci-fi television (Foundation, Silo, Invasion), and Constellation, created and written by Peter Harness, based on concept by Sean Jablonski, is yet another feather in an already considerable cap. This slow-burning story of Continue Reading
Book review: The List of Suspicious Things by Jennie Godfrey
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Growing isn’t easy at the best of times, but it becomes even darkly and challengingly problematic when the person doing the growing up is doing in the very late 1970s in northeast England at a time when the Yorkshire Ripper is terrorising a fearful populace with Continue Reading
“Overflowing with handcrafted charm…” … Robot Dreams drops a beautiful first full trailer
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTDog lives in Manhattan and he’s tired of being alone. One day after seeing a commercial on television, he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of 80’s NYC. One summer night, Dog, with great sadness, Continue Reading