If the cast of Community were Batman villains…

(artwork by the very talented Ben Deguzman (@abouthebenjamin) from Southern California.)

Are you ready to see? First trailer drops for Bird Box Barcelona

(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTFrom the producers of the global phenomenon, Bird Box, comes Bird Box Barcelona, an expansion of the film that riveted audiences in 2018. After a mysterious force decimates the world’s population, Sebastian must navigate his own survival journey through the desolate streets of Barcelona. As he forms Continue Reading

Book review: Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Despite living in it all the time, humanity is, by and large, not all that good with dealing with the reality. So averse are we to its omnipresence and the way in which it very rarely squares with our fairytale glossy hopes and dreams that we Continue Reading

An epic love story: Join the Fellow Travelers (teaser trailer)

(courtesy YouTube (c) Showtime / paramount+) SNAPSHOTCreated by Oscar nominee Ron Nyswaner, based on the novel by Thomas Mallon, Fellow Travelers is an epic love story and political thriller, chronicling the volatile romance of two very different men who meet in McCarthy-era Washington. Matt Bomer plays handsome, charismatic Hawkins Fuller, who maintains Continue Reading

Book review: Crushing by Genevieve Novak

(courtesy IMP Awards) Whether we’re conscious of it or not, we often tend to define ourselves in terms of our connection to others. In an ideal world, we would be who we are consistently and without change from one situation to another or one person to another, but a combination Continue Reading

Back with all their faculties intact: Thoughts on Abbott Elementary season two

(courtesy IMP Awards) Work is a strange thing. Pretty much all of us do it, compelled by a valid need for food, water, shelter and the occasional (or more; thank you eBay) unnecessary shiny thing or fabulous dinner out, to get out there each day and put in eight or Continue Reading

Retro movie review: Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

(courtesy The Movie Database) Diving back into a film you haven’t seen for 42 years can be an interesting and yes, let’s be honest, fraught experience. Will it be as good as you remember? Is it still an escapist wonderland or schlocky ’80s pulp? And does it hold up as Continue Reading

Book review: Charles M. Schulz – The Art and Life of the Peanuts Creator in 100 Objects by Benjamin L. Clark, Nat Gertler and the Charles M. Schulz Museum

(courtesy Simon & Schuster) When you have loved Peanuts as long as this review has, it’s all too easy to assume you know everything about the comic strip and its creator, the legendarily talented Charles M. Schulz. But even though I started buying secondhand copies for twenty and thirty cents Continue Reading

“So long, Farewell” Ted Lasso: We will always “Believe” (review of S3, E11 & E12 aka finale)

(courtesy AppleTV+) Falling in love with a TV show is rarer than you might think. Oh, sure, media, both traditional and digital, gushingly make out like we’re traipsing in and out of streaming true love every second day, and while that’s feasibly possible given the plethora of programming options out Continue Reading

Weekday character poster movie character art: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTA fifth movie in the Indiana Jones franchise, continuing the story after Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Starring Harrison Ford as adventurer Indiana Jones and Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Helena. The full cast also features Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Kretschmann, Boyd Holbrook, Shaunette Renée Continue Reading

Book review: Fault Tolerance by Valerie Valdes

(courtesy Harper Collins Booksellers Australia) There’s always been a lot to like about the gloriously flawed but found family-prioritising protagonists at the heart of the Chilling Effect series of playfully intense novels by Valerie Valdes but chief among them must surely be the fact the fact that here are saviours-of-the-day Continue Reading

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