Honesty. Truthfulness. Authenticity. They’re all powerful words and they describe powerful states of being where all the artifice and pointless detritus of the world falls away and you are just yourself. Unapologetically, gloriously yourself. All five of the artists in this selection know exactly what that feels like and their Continue Reading
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Book review: Mount Pleasant by Adam Byatt
Humanity, it must be said, loves a bit of personal PR. It’s not necessarily a deliberate thing; we don’t step out the door each day, or in these COVID-blighted times, appear on a Zoom call, with the deliberate intention of making ourselves look as good as possible. But our inadvertent Continue Reading
Movie review: Penguin Bloom
If you were to be given a description of the basic premise of Penguin Bloom in broad, top level brushstrokes, you could well be forgiven for thinking that it’s another in a long line on sweetly inspirational, sentimentality run amuck cinematic stories that tug mightily at the heartstrings, rip your Continue Reading
Comics review: Pretty Violent by Derek Hunter + Jason Young + Spencer Holt
Ya gotta hand it to Gamma Rae – she likes to dream big! Superhero big, in fact, and she’s not going to let a pesky thing like a family stacked to the corrupt rafters with zombie-creating, thieving, murderous criminals out her off achieving her lofty goals. But even the protagonist Continue Reading
The world is broken: New poster + trailer for Raya and the Last Dragon
SNAPSHOTRaya and the Last Dragon takes us on an exciting, epic journey to the fantasy world of Kumandra, where humans and dragons lived together long ago in harmony. But when an evil force threatened the land, the dragons sacrificed themselves to save humanity. Now, 500 years later, that same evil Continue Reading
Book review: The Flatshare by Beth O’Leary
There is a giddy escapist loveliness to people falling in love, a reassuring sense that the world night be cruel and quite nasty at times but good things still dwell within its blighted surrounds. Usually when two people are falling in love, however, it’s because they’ve met in one of Continue Reading
WandaVision: Review of “Now in Color” and “We Interrupt This Program” (S1, E 3 and 4)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE DISTORTED REALITY OF GRIEF … Even in the first two classic sitcom-styled episodes of WandaVision, one of the best shows to hit any screen in quite some time, it became patently obvious that all was not well in the suburban idyllic world of Westview, New Continue Reading
Book review: The History of Living Forever by Jake Wolff
Ah, the heady lure of immortality – what is there not to find attractive about the idea of living forever? Almost nothing if the motivations of the characters in Jake Wolff’s unconventionally plotted race to the immortal finish line, The History of Living Forever is any guide. In this sometimes Continue Reading
Movie review: The Croods – A New Age
The far, far past was a dangerous time for humanity. What with carnivorous, hyper-coloured kangaroo/armadillo hybrids, jagged ice trees that surge from the ground with no warning, landscapes that range from deserty and rocky to dangerously giant bug-filled and earnest post-cave dwelling hipsters, there was a lot that could go Continue Reading
Book review: Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
There is a profound beauty and sense of completion that comes into being when someone is finally able to be authentically who they are. No more hiding, no more deception, to themselves or others, a giddy sense of self acceptance that becomes all the more potent when others also accept Continue Reading