Good lord but I need to escape from reality right now. As the pandemic grinds on and on, and people are either blithely pretending it’s BAU (it’s not – pre-2020 has gone forever, sorry), or carefully stepping out into the “new normal” or choosing to soft lockdown and hide from Continue Reading
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Book review: Fancy Meeting You Here by Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus
If you’ve been alive for longer than a day, it will have become dispiritingly obvious that do-overs or second-go-rounds are not exactly thick on the existential ground. Even the much-vaunted concept of closure seems maddeningly elusive much of the time, with mistakes and regrets irreversible and what-ifs purely the stuff Continue Reading
Onward, okay?! Thoughts on Insecure’s fifth and final season
Do we ever really arrive in life? Deep down, we’re all wondering if next week, or next month or even next year will be when we finally, and irrevocably, get all our collective shit together, allowing us to relax, coast and enjoy the fruits of our hard work. But as Continue Reading
Listen to the sound of beauty: A whole world of #Eurovision2022 news!
Just 92 days to the big event itself and as you’d expect, lots and lots and LOTS of news … Before we dive into all the news that is fit to “print”, let’s kick off with the The Eurovision Awards 2021 which pay tribute to everything good about last year’s Continue Reading
Every hero has a beginning … Lightyear debuts an all-new trailer
SNAPSHOTTo infinity and… The sci-fi action-adventure presents the definitive origin story of Buzz Lightyear—the hero who inspired the toy—introducing the legendary Space Ranger who would win generations of fans. Lightyear is directed by American animation filmmaker Angus MacLane, co-director on Finding Dory, and director of the shorts Toy Story of Continue Reading
Book review: Bluebird by @CielPierlot #spaceopera #gaysinspace
ARC courtesy Angry Robot Books – release date 8 February 2022 in UK and 22 March 2022 in Australia. How can you possibly resist a book which winningly pitches itself as the story of a lesbian gunslinger who fights spies in space? Reader, you cannot, and honestly, why would you Continue Reading
Book review: You People by by Nikita Lalwani
Life can be incredibly, disorientingly and emotionally destructively cruel. That might not be immediately apparent to anyone with a reasonably cushy middle class existence in a plush Western liberal democracy, but for many people the stark, horrifying reality is that their hopes and dreams often take a distant back seat Continue Reading
Time is broken: Picard races to save the future in Picard (season 2)
SNAPSHOTThe second season of the American television series Star Trek: Picard features the character Jean-Luc Picard as he and his companions are trapped in the 21st century when reality is broken by Q as part of the ultimate trial for Picard. They must race against time to save the future Continue Reading
Book review: Tank Water by Michael Burge
Growing up in a place where your lived experience is not part of the mainstream is daunting indeed. It becomes even more pronounced in rural areas where the lack of anonymity provided by the diversity hustle and bustle of the big city leaves many people exposed and open to ridicule, Continue Reading
When it rains, she pours … Thoughts on The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window
What a wild ride is The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window! An eight-episode series that sports the kind of title that would make Fiona Apple green with titular envy, The Woman in the House … is the brainchild of Rachel Ramras & Continue Reading