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) The 21st century is not exactly a laughfest of goofy silliness. That’s been obvious for quite some time but when you compare it to the ’70s and ’80s when all kinds of fabulous strangeness was not only play but exuberantly celebrated, it feels very grim and serious Continue Reading

Songs, songs and more songs #137: Emei, METTE, MARIS, Scratching + Holly Humberstone

(via Shutterstock) Can a danceable song really speak to your heart? Damn straight it can and here are five artists who really give substance to the idea that your music can have really bounce and vibrancy to it and yet have you feeling all of the deep and sometimes painful Continue Reading

You think your last move was bad? Wait ’til you see the one in The End of Oak Street

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“Our house, our neighborhood, our whole street has moved.” Filmed for IMAX. After a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street from suburbia and transports their neighborhood to someplace unknown, the Platt family soon discovers that their very survival depends on them sticking together as they navigate their Continue Reading

Graphic novel review: Moonstruck by Grace Ellis and Shae Beagle

(courtesy Image Comics) When you first come as a queer, in whatever fabulously diverse form that takes, one of the first questions that crosses your mind is “How on earth am I going to feel anything but alone?” It’s an understandable question to ask after you’ve usually spent far too Continue Reading

Show them who’s boss: Thoughts on Running Point S2

(courtesy IMP Awards) Families, the kind that inhabit Christmas movies, heartwarming novels and feel-good streaming shows, are supposed to be all kinds of warm and fuzzy unconditionally loving and supportive, a calm port in the tossed and roiling seas of life. The Gordons are NOT one of those families. Oh, Continue Reading

Have the toys finally met their match? Toy Story 5’s final fantastic trailer

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIn Toy Story 5, we’re introduced to a new character Lilypad, a high-tech frog-shaped smart tablet voiced by Greta Lee that makes Buzz, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang’s jobs exponentially harder when they have to go head to head with the all-new threat to Continue Reading

Latest releases May book review: We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune

(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) It’s a constant feature of end-of-the-world stories that there’s a sizeable reckoning for any of the protagonists involved in the story; it makes sense – the world is about to go the way of the Dodo, life in all its forms is vapourising into nothing and, Continue Reading

Here come the aliens … and the truth: Disclosure Day drops final trailer

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTUniversal Pictures is proud to release a new original event film created and directed by Steven Spielberg. If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to 7 billion people. We are Continue Reading

Latest releases May book review: Homebound by Portia Elan

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Imagination of varying degrees and intensity sits at the heart of all of the stories we read. Somewhere, somehow, an author has had the germ of an idea, a glimmer of a character, a snippet of a plot, and through hard work and a deft use Continue Reading

Movie review: H is for Hawk

(courtesy IMP Awards) Having just read a book about the messiness of real, honest grief, and not the clean, tidy kind that only exists in societal expectations and narratively convenient movies, it’s refreshing to encounter another story, this one based on a memoir, where grief is shorn of all its Continue Reading

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