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) Is anyone really and truly a fan of goodbyes? There’s a saying that flies round when someone skips out on a fond and meaningful farewell that goes something along the lines of “I’m not good at goodbyes”, and it’s said like that person, and that person alone, Continue Reading

Graphic novel review: D’Orc TP#1 by Brett Bean

(courtesy Image Comics) OMG D’orc is fun! SO. MUCH. FUN. Created by Brett Bean, and now its first five issues gathered together in a trade paper, playfully and appealing titled Volume One: The Book of Certain Doom, D’Orc is the kind of goodhearted character you want when you’re trying to Continue Reading

New releases book review: The Bookshop Detectives #3: Murder and Mojitos by Gareth Ward and Louise Ward

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) If you are a reader, and let’s face it, if you’re reading this review, you probably are, then you will have conducted a lifelong love affair with their source – bookshops (not libraries, in this instance, though they are, of course, also quite wonderful). There is Continue Reading

Christmas preview: The Secret Holiday Kiss (The Secret Bookshop #3) by Cressy McLaughlin

(courtesy official Cressy McLaughlin newsletter) SNAPSHOTIn a seaside village, where the winter sunset meets the sea, Daisy is coming home … When her perfect life falls apart, Daisy returns to Mistingham, determined it’s a temporary stop until she can find her feet again. She hasn’t counted on the community’s irresistible Continue Reading

Movie review: Spider-Man: Brand New Day

Being different from the mainstream is never an easy road to walk. Oh, it has its wonders and delights, and as a gay man who’s spent much of my life on society’s margins, I know well of what I speak, and you value the sense of liberated perspective and buoyant Continue Reading

New releases August book review: Summer at Flora’s House by Freya North

(courtesy official author site) There is something so deeply, soul-caressingly soothing about the Flora’s House series of novellas by gifted author Freya North. Each perfectly-pitched instalment including Christmas at Flora’s House and Spring at Flora’s House, and which now includes Summer at Flora’s House – the final book, Autumn at Continue Reading

Star Trek Strange New Worlds S4 E1-2 review: “Valles Marineris” and “The Griffin Incident”

(courtesy IMP Awards) Episode 1: “Valles Marineris” Happy days! Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is back for its penultimate season and it kicks off with an episode that ———- SPOILER ALERT !!!!! ———- sends the Enterprise and its crew back 65 million years! Hurrah for fiery galactic anomalies and their Continue Reading

Movie review: Home (Heim) #NordicFilmFestival

(courtesy IMDb) You know what they say – you should never go back. But while that can be sound advice, since where you go back to can never be exactly where you left (with all the attendant disappointment that can cause) sometime you don’t have much choice in the matter. Continue Reading

Christmas in July book review: Big Nick Energy by Kristen Bailey

(courtesy Storm Publishing) When you dive into as many romcoms, festive or otherwise, as this reviewer does, it doesn’t take too long to spot novels which have that extra special something. Maybe it’s dialogue that sounds like it might bounce out of the mouths of actual living breathing human beings Continue Reading

A torrent of TV trailers: Ted Lasso S4, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power S3, Yaga, Neuromancer + Blade Runner 2099

(via Shutterstock) Am I overwhelmed by how many TV-streaming shows are out and about and that I want to watch? YES. Do I want to keep adding to the list anyway, in the feverishly excitable hope that I will one day get to them all? Also YES. I am nothing Continue Reading

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