(courtesy IMDb) Turtles (Les Tortues) Turtles (Les Tortues) is a film that sits poignantly at the far end of the spectrum of love. While we are well used to seeing the beginning of Cupid’s journey, the road that marks the end of a grand love affair is not as well Continue Reading
Book review: The Last Gifts of the Universe by Riley August
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) This one is. This phrase, which distills into three short but carefully chosen words a centred approach to life that forces, in the best way, to only think and concentrate on the present, repeats over and over in the imaginative joy that is The Last Gifts Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #112: Lemonade Baby, SOFI TUKKER, Merry Lamb Lamb, St. Lucia and Jude York + Eurovision 2025 update
(via Shutterstock) Had a big week?! Haven’t we all so what we all need now, and needs lots of, is music that feels something, says something and makes us sense that maybe, just maybe, things might get better. Or at least feel better for a few minutes … These five Continue Reading
You’ll never be the same again … gorgeous final trailer for The Wild Robot
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTFrom DreamWorks Animation comes a new adaptation of a literary sensation – Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot. The epic sci-fi adventure story follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited Continue Reading
Movie review: Thelma
(courtesy IMP Awards) Hollywood of chock full of movies based on real events, and given the predisposition and often narrative need to embellish even the most impressive of real world events, you often have to wonder just how much truth lurks within the folds of the often inventive storyline. In Continue Reading
Book review: The Extraordinary Disappointments of Leopold Berry (Sunderworld Vol. 1) by Ransom Riggs
(courtesy Allen & Unwin Book Publishers) If you have read any novels featuring a “Chosen One” hero, you will be quite familiar with the idea that someone of great talent and abilities but no real awareness of them will be plucked from anonymity and obscurity to become the saviour of Continue Reading
When dreams come true: The home truths and joys of Trying S3 and S4
(courtesy IMP Awards) SEASON 3Finding a perfect TV or streaming series is surely up their with pink glitter-smattered uniforms or the ideal boss, a thing of myth and legend that many a Reddit chat or Twitter (now X) thread has long and noisily ruminated on. But as you watch season Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The joyful remembrance of Run Totti Run
(courtesy IMDb (c) Shad Lee Bradbury) SNAPSHOTA young boy and his dog in the rice fields of Cambodia encounter an unmoving obstacle that will bring their love to light in this endearing story between best friends. [Directed by] Shad Bradbury [who] has worked in animation for over 20 years. He Continue Reading
Book review: Kit McBride Gets a Wife by Amy Barry
(courtesy Simon & Schuster Australia) There’s something about a plucky, funny protagonist who won’t take no for an answer that absolutely reels you in. While society as a whole, and indeed their own family, are happy to tow whatever the agreed line of mainstream behaviour has been deemed to be Continue Reading
Ho Ho (Summery) Ho! Get ready for A Sudden Case of Christmas
(courtesy YAHOO!) SNAPSHOTAn American couple bring their 10 year old daughter, Claire, to her grandfather Lawrence’S hotel in The Dolomites, Italy. They usually come for Christmas but this year it’s August. The fact is they are breaking up and want Lawrence to be the one to tell Claire, especially as Continue Reading