April 3, 2026 – SparklyPrettyBriiiight

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) If you have ever met someone possessed of singular, unwavering ambition, you will be well acquainted with how consuming that kind of focus can be. Nothing else matters to that person beyond seeing their vision realised, their life goals realised and all of the hope and Continue Reading

We need to understand how it all began … Silo drops an intriguing teaser trailer for season 3

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTSeason 3 of Silo continues the saga of a dystopian society of 10,000 people living underground under mysterious circumstances, while revealing an origin story from centuries earlier. In the present, Juliette (Ferguson) survives her forced “cleaning” but returns with memory loss as the silo recovers from rebellion Continue Reading

Fantasy April book review: Bookshops & Bonedust (Legends & Lattes Book 2) by Travis Baldree

(courtesy Pac Macmillan Australia) Prequels aren’t always a good idea. While we naturally want to know, being the endlessly curious creatures that we are, what led to the characters and places of a story we have come to love, it’s not always a satisfying journey to go on. But as Continue Reading

It’s hilariously on! Trailer drops for animation/live action hybrid Coyote vs. Acme

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAfter every last product made by the Acme Corporation has backfired on Wile E. Coyote in his pursuit of the Road Runner, down-and-out human billboard attorney Kevin Avery (starring Will Forte) is hired to represent Coyote in a lawsuit against Acme. A growing friendship between Coyote and Continue Reading

Fantasy April book review: The Astral Library by Kate Quinn

(courtesy Harper Collins Australia) Have you ever wanted you could live inside a book? This phrase, replete with melancholy longing and wishful hopefulness begins and ends The Astral Library by Kate Quinn, its use embodying the need many of us have had at one point or another in our lives Continue Reading

Movie review: Outcome

(courtesy IMP Awards) The poster is technicolour promising. The cast dizzylingly impressive. And the premise? Well, who wouldn’t want to watch a movie about a relatively newly sober A-list star who discovers that in his decidedly drug and alcohol-addled years that he upset a metric ton of people and now Continue Reading

We’ve all heard stories … Final trailer drops for Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTWe see Grogu with his new Anzellan friends and using a tiny telescope as he works alongside Din Djarin. The Mandalorian’s Zeb Orrelios is back, featured in poster art that also includes Sigourney Weaver’s new character and a pair of Hutts. From toppling Imperial remnant AT-ATs to Continue Reading

Fantasy April book review: The Spell Shop by Sarah Beth Durst

(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) “I wanted to write a book that felt like a warm hug.” Reading that sentence in the Acknowledgement section of The Spell Shop by Sarah Beth Durst was not only delightful because who doesn’t know want to know the author of a book they loved actually Continue Reading

Not your average retirement community … head into the post-work strangeness of The Boroughs

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“Executive produces of Stranger Things welcome you to a new community.” In the sun-drenched expanse of the New Mexico desert lies The Boroughs, a picturesque retirement community promising its residents the time of their lives. But for new arrival Sam Cooper (Alfred Molina), paradise feels more like Continue Reading

Fantasy April book review: Inner Demons by Stephen B. Platt

(courtesy Simon & Schuster Australia) It’s a rare thing indeed to pick up a fantasy novel and to have it be not only fantastically imaginative, with audaciously fun world-building that knocks your absolute socks off, but to be full of off-the-wall ideas that are hilarious, engaging and which come to Continue Reading

The end of the world was just the beginning … The Dog Stars movie adaption drops its first trailer

SNAPSHOTSet in Colorado after the world’s population has been ravaged by a pandemic, a man lives a lonesome existence in an airplane hangar with his dog and a door gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission comes through on the radio while he is flying his old Cessna, it Continue Reading

Book review: To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage

Songs, songs and more songs #135: girli, Em Beihold, Alex Warren, TOMORA + Jessie Ware … extra! RAYE live at Abbey Road