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!

It’s time to Wake Up Dead Man: a Knives Out mystery (teaser trailer)

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTBenoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) returns for his most dangerous case yet in the third and darkest chapter of Rian Johnson’s murder mystery opus. When young priest Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), it’s clear that all is not Continue Reading

Book review: Not Quite Dead Yet by Holly Jackson

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) I know you are not supposed to judge a book by its cover; but what its title? What if it’s so quirky and full of promise with a tagline that says “The hardest murder to solve is your own”? Well then you scoop it up, head Continue Reading

CHRISTMAS PREVIEW: Let it bro, let it bro, let it bro as trailer drops for A Very Jonas Christmas Movie

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn A Very Jonas Christmas Movie, Kevin, Joe and Nick Jonas face a series of escalating obstacles as they struggle to make it from London to New York in time to spend Christmas with their families. From Disney Branded Television and 20th Television, the festive film features Continue Reading

Book review: Terms of Service by Ciel Pierlot

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) ARC courtesy Angry Robot Books – release date 23 September 2025 in UK and 28 October 2025 in Australia. One of the things I love about reading sci-fi/fantasy is endlessly and imaginatively expansive it can be. You could likely say that about any genre, but there’s Continue Reading

Where tyrants spend eternity … thoughts on Foundation S3 (E4-7)

(courtesy AppleTV+) Not surprisingly, given the lavishly rewarding dense text of Isaac Asimov’s series from which this stremaing juggernaut is sourced, there is a LOT going on in Foundation. Not just over the four episodes under discussion here, but in each and every episode which cram so much in that Continue Reading

Book review: The Wolf Who Cried Boy by Mark Mupotsa-Russell

(courtesy Affirm Press) The world is full, sagely observes a quote lifted onto the back cover of The Wolf Who Cried Boy by Mark Mupotsa-Russell, of magic and monsters. Those words simultaneously delight and terrify, and they capture the brilliantly evocative duality of this novel which takes you into the Continue Reading

The art and fun of Wallace the Brave: Watch creator Will Henry bring a Sunday strip to playfully colourful life

(courtesy official Will Henry Twitter/X account (c) Will Henry/Go Comics) Wallace the Brave, which flows from the imaginatively whimsical hand of Will Henry, is of those unicorn comic strips that has it all. Set in the archetypal New England town of Snug Harbor [sic], the strip follows the adventures of Continue Reading

Fall in love all over again with French Lover

(courtesy IMDb) SNAPSHOTAbel Camara (Omar Sy) is a star, a sex symbol. A child prodigy, he grew up in front of the cameras. He who seems to have everything—success, money, and the public’s love—is going through a rough patch. Marion (Sara Giraudeau), on the other hand, is far from the Continue Reading

Sci-fi review double: Invasion S3 (E1-2) and Star Trek Strange New Worlds S3 (E 6-8)

(courtesy IMP awards) INVASION season 2 Episode 1: “The Ones We Leave Behind” When last we visited the blighted citizens of Invasion Earth, the alien mothership had crashed into a mountain range, heroes, U.S. soldier Trevante Cole (Shamier Anderson) and British schoolboy-turned-alien-psychic Caspar Morrow (Billy Barratt) were MIA, presumed dead, Continue Reading

Retro movie review: Jaws (50th anniversary)

(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s well recognised time memories are a wholly unreliable witness. We might think we are recalling things exactly as they are, but when the truth of the matter surfaces, it soon becomes clear that we remember is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth but Continue Reading

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