Happy pop culture Christmas everyone! – SparklyPrettyBriiiight

Festive wishes from Hiro and Baymax … and from me to you! Thank you for reading and just being here with me. (Image via Pinterest (c) **Sharkie19, Deviant Art**)

Review of the rest : Shrinking S3, E7-11

(courtesy IMP Awards) Streaming riddle me this: when is a series finale not a series finale? When it’s the final episode of the third season of Shrinking which was originally scoped out for three seasons until Apple came a-calling again, says the show’s creator creator, and asked whether there might Continue Reading

Movie review: Cycle of Time (C’était mieux demain) #AFFF26

(courtesy IMDb) In every way that matters to the social mores of 1958, Hélène and Michel Dupuis (Elsa Zylberstein and Didier Bourdon respectively) are a typical, happy married couple, each operating within their narrow, heavily-proscribed lanes. Hélène, immaculately displayed in tightly fashionable, figure hugging dresses and with a not a Continue Reading

Fantasy April book review: Fathomfolk (The Drowned World Duology, Book 1) by Eliza Chan

(courtesy Hachette Australia) Imagination is the power source behind any great fantasy novel but as anyone who has read many books in the genre will attest, not all imaginative minds are created equal. Having just finished the gloriously clever storytelling that is Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan, it is well and Continue Reading

Movie trailer double: Captain Tsunami and Remarkably Bright Creatures

Ah, movies I love you. Being able to sit back in the dark of a cinema, and yes, while I appreciate the convenience of streaming as a catch-up device, my heart still very much sits with going and joining fellow moviegoers in a public space. These two films looks delightful Continue Reading

Fantasy April book review: The Impossible Garden of Clara Thorne by Summer N. England

(courtesy Hachette Australia) Hiding away from the world, even if it’s in plain sight, is something that anyone who has undergone trauma is very adept at doing. You may long for happy-ever-afters and a community to call your own and a life that’s buoyant and free but the truth of Continue Reading

How does the audition of a lifetime go? Thoughts on Bait

(courtesy IMP Awards) If you have so much as stepped out of your house at any point in your life, and the odds are good you have, you will have definitely come into contact with the socially toxic tendrils of a narcissist. You know the type – people who overwhelm Continue Reading

Graphic novel review: Haru (Book 3) – Fall by Joe Latham

(courtesy Simon & Schuster) It’s easy to think that war and hatred, bigotry and violence are far more powerful than love and peace, joy and community. After all, the former are emphatically bombastic and loud; they look powerful, they appear menacing, bristling muscular energy of the worst, most destructive kind Continue Reading

Book review: Spring at Flora’s House by Freya North

(courtesy official Freya North site) Identity is a powerful driver for every person alive. Not all of us may acknowledge it outright, but whether we emphatically embrace the dogma of a religion, the fervency of fandom of a football team or we live and breathe artistic expression in all its Continue Reading

Easter is fun! Mini-reviews of Banjo the Hot Cross Bun, Pink Easter + Never Touch a Grumpy Bunny

(via Shutterstock) I adore kids’ books. Sure they were once upon just books to read to my nieces and nephews, but they’ve grown past books like these now, and yet, in reading them to my favourite little people, it hit me that here are some fun stories worth reading just Continue Reading

Easter has a soundtrack just like Christmas, so why do we never hear it? (curated article)

(via Shutterstock) This article by by Wendy Hargreaves, academic in the School of Education and Creative Arts, University of Southern Queensland, was first published in The Conversation Australia. You can’t visit the shops around Christmas time without hearing “Feliz Navidad”, “Silent Night”, or Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Continue Reading

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