(courtesy First Showing (c) AppleTV+) SNAPSHOTInvasion follows an alien invasion through different perspectives around the world. In season three, those perspectives collide for the first time, as all the main characters are brought together to work as a team on a critical mission to infiltrate the alien mothership. The ultimate Continue Reading
Book review: The Potency of Ungovernable Impulses (Mossa & Pleiti book #3) by Malka Older
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) Arriving at the third book in any series is a thing of quiet and fulfilling joy. You have had two books to be introduced and get to know the main characters, to be come familiarised with the world in which they love and to understand the Continue Reading
Tall Pines seems like a such a happy place … until it isn’t and it all goes Wayward (teaser trailer)
(courtesy First Showing) We think you’ll be very happy here.” đȘ In the picture-perfect town of Tall Pines, sinister secrets lurk behind every closed door. Not long after police officer Alex Dempsey (Mae Martin) and his pregnant wife Laura (Sarah Gadon) move into their new home, he connects with two Continue Reading
Movie review: The Mountain (FjalliĂ°)
(courtesy IMDb) What happens when you assemble all the tropes and cliches of a particular genre and a decent film forgets to turn up? You get FjalliĂ° (The Mountain). An Icelandic film written and directed by Ăsthildur KjartansdĂłttir, FjalliĂ° (The Mountain) looks for all the world like the sort of Continue Reading
Mixed bag of movie trailers: Dogs on the Sendero, Sketch + The Occupant
(via Shutterstock) Eclectism is the stuff of a rich and full life. Well, for this reviewer anyway; while I do have my favourite genres, I also loving mixing it up whenever I can with my movie consumption leaping from rom-coms to animation to serious drama to sci-fi, sometimes in the Continue Reading
The decline and the fall … Thoughts on Foundation S3 E1-3
(courtesy IMP Awards) The first two enthrallingly good seasons of Foundation, a lavish adaptation of Issac Asimov’s book series of the same overall name, were a portentous drumbeat march to the end of the world. Or in the case of this engrossingly intense story, the end of an empire which Continue Reading
Movie review: Long Good Thursday (MielensÀpahoittajan rakkaustarina)
(courtesy IMDb) The translation of this Finnish language’s original title, MielensĂ€pahoittajan rakkaustarina, literally translates, so say the good folks at Wikipedia, as The Grump’s Love Story. It’s a delightful grouping of words because it points to the central joy of this gorgeously delivered and emotionally nuanced film which is that Continue Reading
Big movie blockbuster double: Zootopia 2 and Avatar: Fire and Ash
(via Shutterstock) I love big epic movies! I also love small, highly emotional and deeply thoughtful indie films too because, well, they’re good for the soul, but there’s something about experiencing a big popular movie that everyone is watching at the same time that gives you a greater sense of Continue Reading