(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“Our house, our neighborhood, our whole street has moved.” Filmed for IMAX. After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their Continue Reading
Latest releases May book review: John of John by Douglas Stuart
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) There’s a real joy to reading a novel by someone who wields their words not simply with artistry but with a sense of deeply affecting humanity. It’s easy enough if you’re a masterful writer, to make sentences and paragraphs and chapters that sing with the sparkling Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Moonstruck by Grace Ellis and Shae Beagle
(courtesy Image Comics) When you first come as a queer, in whatever fabulously diverse form that takes, one of the first questions that crosses your mind is “How on earth am I going to feel anything but alone?” It’s an understandable question to ask after you’ve usually spent far too Continue Reading
Show them who’s boss: Thoughts on Running Point S2
(courtesy IMP Awards) Families, the kind that inhabit Christmas movies, heartwarming novels and feel-good streaming shows, are supposed to be all kinds of warm and fuzzy unconditionally loving and supportive, a calm port in the tossed and roiling seas of life. The Gordons are NOT one of those families. Oh, Continue Reading