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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: Amrun

(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

“My childhood has lead to me to this moment…” Stuart Fails to Save the Universe drops a teaser trailer

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTComic book store owner Stuart Bloom (starring Kevin Sussman) is tasked with restoring reality after he breaks a device built by Sheldon and Leonard, accidentally bringing about a multiverse Armageddon. Stuart is aided in this quest by his girlfriend Denise, geologist friend Bert, and quantum physicist/all-around pain Continue Reading

Latest releases May book review: The Name Game by Beth O’Leary

(courtesy Hachette Australia) It’s a truism of any form of storytelling that genres generally come with cast-iron rules. If you want to write in those genres, and have people, in this case, read your books, you have to include certain tropes and cliches to keep the punters happy; however, simply Continue Reading

Movie review: Swapped

(courtesy IMP Awards) If you are looking for a potent shot of animated joy into your moviegoing veins, then look no further than the vibrantly colourful and emotionally rich world of Swapped. Overflowing with gobsmackingly wonderful imaginative world-building, the best this reviewer has seen the criminally underrated wonder of Disney’s Continue Reading

The short and the short of it: Finding home is a real adventure in Quack!

(courtesy ESMA) SNAPSHOTTheCGBros presents Quack! by ESMA – a huge egg washes up near the stream where two small forest spirits live. A duckling comes out, and they decide to go on an adventure to bring him back to his mother. (Un gros œuf s’échoue près du ruisseau où vivent Continue Reading

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