October 25, 2024 – SparklyPrettyBriiiight

(courtesy IMP Awards) Only Murders in the Building S4, E4-8 What beautifully wrought five episodes. While the expected sleuthing twists and turns are well and truly present & accounted for, in almost gasp-worthy, cliffhanger number, what emerges quite powerfully, as it always does in Only Murders in the Building is Continue Reading

Book review: All the Galaxies by Philip Miller

(courtesy Allen & Unwin Book Publishers) After watching far too many books sit trapped in my To Be Read (TBR) pile for years and years, I decided it was high time a month was devoted to rescuing them from the reading void and diving into their promising stories. So, for Continue Reading

Christmas romance movie preview: The Merry Gentlemen + Hot Frosty

(via Shutterstock) It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and it’s beginning to look a lot like, you know, and yes, every single very Christmassy phrase is being engaged right now because the festive season is so close we can taste it (I mean, literally taste it; here in Continue Reading

Comedy mystery review round-up: Only Murders in the Building S4, E4-8 and Bad Monkey S1, 8-10

Movie review: From Hilde, With Love (In Liebe, Eure Hilde)

(courtesy IMDB) There has likely never been an age in which humanity hasn’t had to battle against some form of tyranny or another, but in 2024, the pressing need to take a stand against the monstrous autocracy of fascism and its barbaric intent to shape life in its own twisted Continue Reading

“Guys like us don’t become the heroes.” Find a new place in life with Interior Chinatown

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTBased on Charles Yu’s award-winning book of the same name, the show follows the story of Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural called Black & White. Relegated to the background, Willis goes through the motions of his on-screen job, waiting tables, dreaming about Continue Reading

Deep TBR book review: An Accidental Odyssey (An Exlibris Adventure) by kc dyer

(courtesy Penguin Random House) After watching far too many books sit trapped in my To Be Read (TBR) pile for years and years, I decided it was high time a month was devoted to rescuing them from the reading void and diving into their promising stories. So, for October, each Continue Reading

Graphic novel review: Peculiar Woods (Vol. 2) – The Mystery of the Intelligents by Andrés J. Colmenares

(courtesy Simon & Schuster) It’s wonderful when a creator can make a cliffhanger moment pay off. If you recall, the first Peculiar Woods story, The Ancient Underwater City, ended definitively, yes, but a tantalising cliffhanger moment woven in, and in its sequel, The Mystery of the Intelligents, Andrés J. Colmenares Continue Reading

Sitcom review double: Shrinking S2, E1-2 and Frasier 2023 S2, E3-6

(courtesy YouTube (c) AppleTV+) Shrinking S2, E1-2 Shrinking is ostensibly a sitcom. But while it is indeed very funny, full of smart, snappy, character-driven lines and gleefully absurdist situations, it is also one of the most relatable treatises this reviewer has ever encountered on grief. If that sounds like comedy Continue Reading

Deep TBR book review: Netherland by Joseph O’Neill

(courtesy Fourth Estate) After watching far too many books sit trapped in my To Be Read (TBR) pile for years and years, I decided it was high time a month was devoted to rescuing them from the reading void and diving into their promising stories. So, for October, each book Continue Reading

New friends, old enemies … first trailer drops for Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTGromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a “smart” gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to Continue Reading