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!

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 bit characters a bit more time in the storytelling sun. Concomitant with this, has been an appetite for imbuing these characters, good and bad, with more humanity and depth, 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

No one likes to feel trapped … Thoughts on the comedic pressures of Big Mistakes

(courtesy IMP Awards) You have to feel sorry for Dan Levy. Not because anything terrible has happened to him; rather, because of the crushing weight of expectation placed upon the immensely talented creator, writer and one of the superb ensemble cast of the legendarily funny Schitt’s Creek from people waiting Continue Reading

Graphic novel review: Trick Pony by Greg Lockard (writer), Anna David (artist) and Lucas Gattoni (letterer + designer)

(courtesy Dark Horse Comics) Making peace with your past is never easy. Oh, wellness gurus and not a few self improvement books will guarantee it’s a simply a matter of throwing away the past, embracing the present and voila! a shiny new future awaits you, shorn of trauma and loss Continue Reading

Fantasy April book review: Tainted Cup (Shadow of the Leviathan #1) by Robert Jackson Bennett

(courtesy Hachette Australia) As deaths in murder mysteries go, the one that that graphically kicks off all the fantastical sleuthing in The Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett is hard to beat. That doesn’t escape the two people assigned by nervous local authorities – idiosyncratic, fiercely intelligent and socially awkward Continue Reading

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