(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Something superlatively wonderful happens when truly beautiful writing comes together with an arrestingly clever narrative. In an ideal world, this would happen in every single book you read, but it’s not always the case and so, when masterfully executed writing and a beguiling storyline rich in Continue Reading
Movie review: Bonnard: Pierre et Marthe
(courtesy IMDb) Wondrous though it often is, the road to true love, and well beyond into the thorny existential thickets of life, is rarely a smooth and trouble-free journey. Oh, there is hope and possibility and a future draped in rose-coloured romance and loveliness, but it really plays out the Continue Reading
Happy 10th birthday to The Boxtrolls! To celebrate, here’s a brand-new trailer …
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThe Boxtrolls are monsters living below the streets of Cheesebridge, who crawl out of the sewers at night to steal what the townspeople hold most dear: their children and their cheeses. Or so the townspeople have always believed… In truth, the Boxtrolls are just a community of Continue Reading
Book review: Would You Rather by Maggie Alderson
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) Reinvention is usually seen as something good, an exercise of personal agency that sees the old cast aside in favour of something hoped or believed to be new and different. But what happens with reinvention is forced upon you, usually by some kind of trauma Continue Reading
Will they. Won’t they. Should They? Thoughts on Nobody Wants This.
(courtesy IMP Awards) Ladies and gentlemen, and those who choose not to participate in traditional gender binary systems, of the televisual jury, I give you the perfect romantic comedy. If not perfect, then it’s so damn close that it might as well be given such a gushing shot of appreication. Continue Reading