(courtesy IMP Awards) The storySo that was a LOT! Still on the largely jungle planet of Khofar where the bugs are so big you’d need a lorry full of insect repellent to keep them away, and yes, a lightsaber or two, we witnessed the arrival of Mae’s master who came Continue Reading
Book review: Birding by Rose Ruane
(courtesy Hachette Australia) How often do you wonder, as you life races with thoughtless heed and speed on, where all those innocent hopes and dreams of your youth disappeared to? Even if you have had something approaching a charmed existence, there are moments when the shape of life around you Continue Reading
Movie review: A Quiet Place – Day One
(courtesy IMP Awards) If you have had the hushed, if terrifying, pleasure of sitting through either A Quiet Place or A Quiet Place 2, you will be well aware that this is a franchise with one eye very much on the humanity of what it means to be plunged into Continue Reading
UPCOMING READ: Cover reveal for The Relentless Legion (a novel of The Divide) by J. S. Dewes
(courtesy J. S. Dewes / Macmillan Publishers) SNAPSHOTJ. S. Dewes is back with her acclaimed and action packed Divide series (The Last Watch, The Exiled Fleet) where The Expanse meets the Night’s Watch. The Sentinels have rallied under the leadership of Adequin Rake, and Cavalon Mercer has uncovered the horrifying Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #108: Orla Gartland, Elderbrook, Foster the People, Orville Peck and Florrie + ABBA’s Summer Night City is given a bright new video clip sheen
(via Shutterstock) You need an end of the week musical pick-me-up? Of course you do, and these five artists, all of whom have married great lyrics with compulsively listenable music, are serving up songs that not only make you want to get up and dance but also feel #allthethings and Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Paper Girls 5 & 6 by Brian K Vaughan and Cliff Chiang
(courtesy Image Comics) On the face of it, time travel seems like one of the most fun idea out there. What’s not to like about the chance to zap anywhere in history and see dinosaurs or kill Hitler or see what the Earth looks like in 1.2 billion years? But Continue Reading
Christmas preview: Hilariously merry and snarkily bright trailer lands for kidnapped Santa caper film Red One
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAfter Santa Claus (starring J.K. Simmons as the Big Man) – Code Name: RED ONE – is kidnapped, the North Pole’s Head of Security (Dwayne Johnson) must team up with the world’s most infamous bounty hunter (Chris Evans) in a globe-trotting, action-packed mission to save Christmas. Red Continue Reading
Life, love, longing and laughter: Thoughts on Trying (seasons 1 and 2)
(courtesy IMP awards) Season 1If you have met the love of your life, and here’s hoping that’s the case, you will be well acquainted with that delicious feeling you had way back when when they were chattering away and you knew, you just KNEW, that they were The One for Continue Reading
Book review: Every Time I Go On Vacation, Someone Dies by Catherine Mack
(courtesy Macmillan Publishers) As a general rule, when you think of things that are fun, you usually don’t think of murder. But the solving of these murders? Ah, that is a another gloriously immersive thing indeed! That’s been quite clear since the early days of crime-solving models and got a Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Friendship takes flight in Wings
(courtesy YouTube (c) Gothfrog) SNAPSHOTIn this story of kindness, friendship, and the fear of being left behind, a friendship takes flight as a mouse that wants to fly and an injured bird cross paths. [This is the] final film [by Gothfrog] from the School of Visual Arts (SVA); they directed, Continue Reading