FLICKS FLASHBACK! Never Let Me Go / Oranges and Sunshine

Posted on July 8, 2011 by aussiemoose

Comic strip review: Sunday Funday Wallace by Will Henry

(courtesy Simon & Schuster) SNAPSHOTA visual celebration of one of the most dynamic and imaginative comics since Calvin and Hobbes, this deluxe hardcover treasury celebrates includes every Wallace the Brave Sunday comic strip from 2018-2024, featuring original watercolors, character art, maps, and an introduction by the author. This book celebrates Continue Reading

Book review: In the Key of Dale by Benjamin Lefebvre

(courtesy Arsenal Pulp Press) For some people, working out where they fit in life in easy – one look and they know where it is and who they fit in with and they glide seamlessly into place with balletic ease. But others, and I suspect it’s the majority of people, Continue Reading

Is love all a bit Too Much? Discover the pent-up rage and dark secrets in the first trailer

(courtesy First Showing (c) Netflix) SNAPSHOTJessica (Megan Stalter) is a New York workaholic in her mid-thirties, reeling from a broken relationship that she thought would last forever and slowly isolating everyone she knows. When every last block in New York City tells a story of her own bad behaviour, the Continue Reading

Finishing up a season … and starting the next: Review of Poker Face S1 E6-10 + S2: E1-6

(courtesy IMP Awards) Season 2, E 1-5 review One of Poker Face‘s great strengths in its first season was that even thought it never trivialised murder, which was always seen as an evil act in need of some form or redemptive justice – handed out, of course, by protagonist Charlie Continue Reading

Comic strip review: Crabgrass Comic Adventures Vol. 1 by Tauhid Bondia

(courtesy Andrews McMeel Publishing) We’ve all been there – innocently browsing through an online store when suddenly, or not so suddenly since they are stalking us every step of our impulsive shopping ways, the resident algorithm decides you MUST have a certain title. These sorts of insistent suggestions can be Continue Reading

Book review: How to Read a Book by Monica Wood

(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers) The power of books to shape and mend peoples’ lives for the better is well and often remarked upon. Reading is seen, and quite rightly too, as a way of engendering wonder, curiosity and empathy, of opening the minds of those who lose themselves in books Continue Reading

#SydFilmFest movie review: The Ballad of Wallis Island

(courtesy IMP awards) A mistake often made is that for something to have real emotional power, an impact that rends the heart and sears the soul, that it must be big, bombastic and loud. But while there are more than enough movies that mistakes neon sign-cloaked, well-telegraphed emotional touchpoints, clumsily Continue Reading

Bring on the snarky giraffe! Full trailer releases for the animated fun of In Your Dreams

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTSearching for a family adventure that won’t break the bank? Coming to Netflix this fall, In Your Dreams takes you on a fantastical journey from the comfort of your own home. In this enchanting tale, Stevie (voiced by Jolie Hoang-Rappaport) and her brother, Elliot (voiced by Elias Continue Reading

Book review: The Show Woman by Emma Cowing

(courtesy Hachette Australia) When you think of hopes and dreams, those alluring baubles of possibility and fulfillment that dangle prettily far above the grungily depressing landscape of life, you never really think in terms of how much it takes to make them happen (assuming they happen at all but who Continue Reading

“This is where everything is headed” … Foundation S3’s awe-inspiring trailer

(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTBased on the award-winning sci-fi novels by Isaac Asimov, Foundation chronicles a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire. The premise of the stories is that, in the waning days of a future Galactic Continue Reading

Related Post