CHRISTMAS PREVIEW: The vivaciously funny festive joy of Christmas Karma

(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTAn early Xmas gift… Christmas Karma sees ones of the greatest novels – Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – transformed into a joyous, colourful, feel-good Christmas musical that celebrates modern-day London and all of its communities and cultures. Told from Chadha’s unique point of view and in Continue Reading

Frankenstein with a delightful twist … trailer drops for adaptation of beloved book series (and graphic novel), Stitch Head

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTHigh above the little town of Grubbers Nubbin, in a castle laboratory, the maddest of all mad professors brings monstrous creations to (almost) life… and then promptly forgets all about them. So, who runs the castle? Who keeps the monsters in line, so the townsfolk don’t form Continue Reading

CHRISTMAS PREVIEW: The Secret Mistletoe Promise (The Secret Bookshop, Book 2) by Cressida McLaughlin

(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers) SNAPSHOTIs a new beginning waiting for her this Christmas? When Imogen leaves her fiancé at the altar and escapes to her grandmother’s cottage by the sea, the only thing she wants to do is disappear. But in a village curious about their new arrival, Imogen finds Continue Reading

Graphic novel review: Fierce: The F*cked-Up Fairytale of a Fed-Up Princess by Geoffroy Monde (writer) and Mathieu Burniat (artwork)

(courtesy Abrams Books) Think you know the legend of King Arthur? Think again, my friends in the yelling, scremaing, frenetically colourful and boisterous chaos of Fierce the Fcked-up Fairytale of a Fed-up Princess by Geoffroy Monde (story) and Mathieu Burniat (artwork/layout/colours), the much-told story of the fictional (?) hero of Continue Reading

It’s time to Wake Up Dead Man: a Knives Out mystery (teaser trailer)

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTBenoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) returns for his most dangerous case yet in the third and darkest chapter of Rian Johnson’s murder mystery opus. When young priest Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), it’s clear that all is not Continue Reading