Life can be scary when you’re taken away from everything you’ve ever known. Hilda, the star of an acclaimed graphic novel series by Luke Pearson and now a gorgeous-looking whimsical new animated show on Netflix, knows a thing or two about what that feels like as IO9 explains: “In Continue Reading
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The City in the Middle of the Night: Charlie Jane Anders’ new futuristic tale
SNAPSHOT January is a dying planet—divided between a permanently frozen darkness on one side, and blazing endless sunshine on the other. Humanity clings to life, spread across two archaic cities built in the sliver of habitable dusk. And living inside the cities, one flush with anarchy and the other Continue Reading
Driving! The Coen Brothers and The Waltz of the Road
SNAPSHOT Original Video Essay to explore the narrative in the Coen Brothers Style. The importance of the road in all their filmography let them explore the different emotions of their characters. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) One of the great rewards of watching a film by the ridiculously-talented Coen Brothers, Continue Reading
Not everyone was me: Artist captures the poignancy of re-discovering your childhood bullies as an adult
I was bullied ceaselessly and mercilessly as a child. Every day at school was hell and I spent my time trying to maintain as small as profile as possible, a necessary strategy which robbed me of all kinds of academic and sporting activities I would’ve been damn good at. Continue Reading
Come to the “strange machinations in our heads”: My Brother Rabbit adventure game trailer
SNAPSHOT A picture-perfect, loving family discovers that their daughter has fallen ill. While her parents set out to get her the treatment she needs, her determined older brother turns to the power of imagination to help both of them cope. While the outside world offers tragedy, these pure children Continue Reading
Adam Rex dares to ask – Are You Scared, Darth Vader?
Darth Vader scared? C’mon as if that would happen! Ah yes, but what if he was left alone with a young kid on a sleepover who in that playfully relentless way kids have decided to see if he could scare a man who is the author of fear, and Continue Reading
Lost in the woods? Let Silicon Valley’s Zach Woods hilariously teach you how to survive
SNAPSHOT We took Silicon Valley’s awkward mother hen into the wild, dressed him in the splurgiest tech wear, and learned how to be men. ( (c) GQ magazine) Zach Woods is one on my favourite actors. A master of comic timing, his deadpan delivery, suffused with sweetness and quip-ready Continue Reading
Purrr-fectly literate! The gloriously-good pairing of cats and bookshops
It could be because I love cats and I can’t think of anything better than curling up for hours with a good book – providing of course, at my age, my physio is standing by to un-curl me at a moment’s notice – but somehow cats and bookshops seem the Continue Reading
Slack Wyrm: Subversive philosophy, dragons and hilarious volcano cakes
SNAPSHOT Slack Wyrm – the ongoing comic story of unconcerned dragon in an uncaring world by Josh Wright. Set in an ill-conceived medieval/fantasy realm of fabulous monsters, princesses, towering castles, creepy woods and houses made out of confectionery. There are witches and wizards and talking animals who sometimes wear Continue Reading
The Weatherman: The Future’s Only Hope … Has A Zero Percent Chance
Memories are fallible things. We forget where we put the keys. What day our niece’s birthday falls. Where we hid that present that would be perfect for Aunty Jean? But being responsible for genocide? Yeah, no, that, THAT, is something you’d definitely remember. Unless you’re Martian weatherman, Nathan Bright, Continue Reading