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Here’s to more movies, books, songs, TV shows, cartoon and comic strips and so much more in 2019!

Book review: You & Me and You & Me and You & Me by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees

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Oh my, see how they grow! Final thoughts on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy S1 (E4-10)

(courtesy IMP Awards) As I wrote the review for the first three episodes of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, I was impressed by how sophisticated a show it was so early in the piece. There are a great many shows that wobble and stumble in their first season, showing promise and Continue Reading

Movie review: Leave One Day (Partir un Jour) #AFFFF26

(courtesy IMDb) Mixing the past and the present can always be a little awkward and more than a bit emotionally unsettling. But much of the time that’s not an issue for anyone, with the past and the present separated by a sizeable gap of years; that is, of course, until Continue Reading

Book review: This Book Made Me Think of You by Libby Page

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Books have power, real, life-transforming, soul-restorative power. If you been a reader for any length of time, you will know this quite well, especially if, like this reviewer, reading got you through some quite harrowing parts of life where the real world was desperately unkind and Continue Reading

A 165-million year journey: Thoughts on The Dinosaurs

(courtesy IMP Awards) While time has moved on for this reviewer in many emphatically life-altering ways, one thing that hasn’t changed is the boisterous love my inner-five-year-old has for dinosaurs. Like many millions, likely billions of people across the globe, I am as fascinated by these prehistoric creatures now as Continue Reading

Movie review: Bon Voyage, Marie (On Ira) AFFFF26

(courtesy IMDb) Saying a final goodbye to anyone you love who is dying is one of the hardest things you can do in life. But it becomes even more devastating when it arrives out of nowhere, which is precisely what happens in Bon Voyage, Marie (On Ira) when a lovingly Continue Reading

Book review: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Toward the Night by James Swallow

(courtesy Simon & Schuster) Novels based on the characters in TV shows or movies either go one of two ways – they absolutely nail the characters and evoke a perfect sense of time and place that makes the story feel like a televisual sprung to life on the page or Continue Reading

“The most important thing is to be yourself.” The endearing trailer for The Other Bennet Sister

(courtesy YouTube (c) BBC) SNAPSHOTThe first part of the series follows the events from Pride and Prejudice from Mary Bennet’s point of view, before the story departs to follow Mary as she travels to London & the Lake District. The overlooked sister from the big Bennet family has a romantic Continue Reading

Movie review: The Pout-Pout Fish

(courtesy IMP Awards) Based on the book of the same name by Deborah Diesen with art by Dan Hanna, The Pout-Pout Fish is of those films that comes with a fairly simple premise but which becomes so much more thanks to clever writing and some mischievously inventive animation. Adapted from Continue Reading

Book review: Lie With Me by Philippe Besson

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) While it’s an immutable fact that we exist in the here and now, for better or worse, we are always living in the past to some extent. It’s impossible not in many ways since who we were and what we did are intrinsically woven into the Continue Reading

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