Happy pop culture new year everyone! – SparklyPrettyBriiiight

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

(courtesy IMP Awards) Growing up, and especially starting on the transition to adulthood, is never an easy thing at the best of times, but when you’re life is not “normal”, not even close to it, (and that’s leaving aside the fact that the very idea of normal is a rubbery Continue Reading

#Maythe4thBeWithYou trailer for The Mandalorian and Grogu takes us on a beautiful journey across the many generations of Star Wars

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTWe see Grogu with his new Anzellan friends and using a tiny telescope as he works alongside Din Djarin. The Mandalorian’s Zeb Orrelios is back, featured in poster art that also includes Sigourney Weaver’s new character and a pair of Hutts. From toppling Imperial remnant AT-ATs to Continue Reading

Graphic novel review: The Ghost Fleet: The Whole Goddamned Thing by Donny Cates (writer), Daniel Warren Johnson (artwork) and Lauren Affe (colours)

(courtesy Image Comics) If you grew up in the ’80s or ’90s, you will know a thing or two, cinematically firsthand, about what it feels like for someone to narratively put the pedal to the metal and never once depress it. It’s a blockbuster pellmell ride into action excess and Continue Reading

Movie review redux: Star Wars: The Force Awakens #StarWars #Maythe4thBeWithYou

Returning to your childhood, especially when it comes to the movies and TV shows the defined it, can be a fraught activity. There is an excitement certainly, how can there not be, but there’s also a sense that this nostalgic excursion may not be quite the enjoyable embrace with an Continue Reading

Book (ish) review: Star Wars: The Perfect Weapon (short story) #StarWars #Maythe4thBeWithYou

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) One of the more enjoyable pop culture trends of recent years has been the willingness to give less iconic characters a little more time in the storytelling sun. Concomitant with this, has been an appetite for imbuing these characters, good and bad, with more humanity and Continue Reading

Movie review: The Devil Wears Prada 2

(courtesy IMP Awards) Sequels are curious things. People crave, desire, need and want them because who doesn’t want to see a story continue, but they are, often more than not, disappointed by them because while scratch an itch, it’s only on the viewing (or the reading etc) that it’s realised Continue Reading

UPCOMING READ: As We Fall Through Time by Claire North

(courtesy Hachette Australia) SNAPSHOTFrom the multi-award-winning Claire North comes an extraordinary and epic tale of time travel, betrayal and a love that echoes through the centuries. In the beginning, the world will end. This is the story of what happens next. When Cal meets a soldier of the French Revolution, Continue Reading

Fantasy April book review: A Pirate’s Life For Tea (Tomes & Tea #2) by Rebecca Thorne

(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) “Cosy” is one those words that suggests contentment, peace, of being right with the world and nothing terrible coming to trouble those wrapped happily in its blissful cocoon. And while all of that is true, it doesn’t fully describe what happens in the delightfully titled sub-genre Continue Reading

He’s back! Ted Lasso S4 drops teaser trailer

(courtesy AppleTV) SNAPSHOTSeason four marks the return of fan favorites including Emmy Award winner Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Emmy Award winner Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt and Jeremy Swift, alongside new additions Tanya Reynolds, Jude Mack, Faye Marsay, Rex Hayes, Aisling Sharkey, Abbie Hern and Grant Feely. In season four, Ted Continue Reading

Fantasy April book review: The Dark Lord’s Guide to Dating (and Other War Crimes) (Guides to Villainy and Love #1) by Tiffany Hunt

(courtesy Simon & Schuster Australia) One of the most sacred axioms of book buying, assuming you pay attention to such things and honestly this reviewer rarely does, is that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover (but of course we all do so sorry, not sorry). Probably up there Continue Reading

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