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Latest releases May book review: Side Character Energy by Olivia Tolich

(courtesy Text Publishing) Have you ever been rolling along in life, thinking everything is okay and then woken up one day to realise you’re actually a bit player in your own life? In other words, if there were awards for your life, and why the hell shouldn’t there be, you’d Continue Reading

Movie review: Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu

(courtesy IMP Awards) You have to feel a certain amount of sympathy for anyone connected to a major franchise who is trying to steer it through the viciously opinionated waters of today’s digital age. Everyone seems to have an idea about what should, and even more emphatically what shouldn’t happen Continue Reading

Latest releases May book review: Henry Goes Bush by Wayne Marshall

(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) There are certain figures who are so intrinsic to a country’s modern identity that you automatically assume you know everything is about them. But as a fantastically imaginative and thoroughly clever new novel, Henry Goes Bush by Wayen Marshall, makes clear, that’s not always so. The Continue Reading

Sometimes the universe leaves you a message: Voicemails for Isabelle trailer

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTVoicemails for Isabelle charts an unexpected romance between Jill (Zoey Deutch) & Wes (Nick Robinson). After her sister Isabelle (Ciara Bravo) dies, Jill copes by continuing to leave her new voicemails. About everything from her boss Chef Bastien’s (Nick Offerman) insufferable antics to how heartbroken she is Continue Reading

The short and the short of it: motherhood in the spotlight in Pixar artist’s Mother’s Nature

(courtesy First Showing (c) Pixar) SNAPSHOTMother’s Nature is a series of vignettes with a playful twist on what it means to be a mom, whether you’re a turtle, parrot or anything in between. Directed by Valerie LaPointe and Produced by Claire Munzer and Paige Johnstone. (courtesy YouTube (c) Pixar) This Continue Reading

Book review: Yeah the Boys by Holden Sheppard

Figuring out who you are is one of the most monumental, and yes, challenging parts of growing up. It’s messy, it’s three steps back to one step forward, or at least it feels that way, and it rarely makes as much sense as we want it to; but if that’s Continue Reading

Movie review: Amrum

(courtesy IMDb) Coming to a crossroads, especially an unexpected one, where you have to deal with the fact that something you believed in is no longer worth supporting or is not even remotely what you once believed it to be, is always a jarringly existential moment. It can absolutely knock Continue Reading

A world of magic awaits … Wildwood drops a sumptuously evocative first teaser trailer

(courtesy YouTube (c) LAIKA Studios) SNAPSHOTStep inside Laika’s Wildwood, where a powerful golden eagle commands the skies and magic takes flight. Wildwood – based on Colin Meloy’s illustrated book series – will see Prue McKeel leave behind her home of Portland, Oregon, venturing into Wildwood on a dark quest to Continue Reading

Is the future agrarian? Thoughts on This is a Gardening Show

(courtesy IMDb) As someone who has become unaccountably addicted to watching Gardening Australia every Friday night – no, I’m not a gardener and have no garden but yes, I love the soothing balm of enthusiasts talking about much they love the act of gardening and its many fascinating aspects – Continue Reading

Movie review: Hello Betty

(courtesy IMDb) Once upon a time, advertisers of food and cooking products loved the idea of stylising and propagating the ideal consumer of their products. It was a way to make their products relatable and useful in an everyday product, to put a face to a somewhat faceless product, and Continue Reading

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