New releases May book review: Good Boy by Michelle Wright

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Movie review: Remarkably Bright Creatures

(courtesy IMP Awards) If you had someone die who was absolutely central to your world, and whose absence makes it feel considerably smaller and barren, then you will understand the wholly disorienting sense of everything feeling like it just STOPS. The world might keep moving around you with its customary Continue Reading

It’s time for a closer look at the unsettling mystery of The Boroughs

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“Executive produces of Stranger Things welcome you to a new community.” In the sun-drenched expanse of the New Mexico desert lies The Boroughs, a picturesque retirement community promising its residents the time of their lives. But for new arrival Sam Cooper (Alfred Molina), paradise feels more like Continue Reading

New releases May book review: Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke

(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) If you have even a modicum of self awareness and personal integrity, the idea of pretending to be something you’re not often doesn’t sit well with you. The only way you can live with a fake persona and your real self sitting cheek-by-jowl is to Continue Reading

There’s something magical about the creation of upcoming stop-motion wonder, Wildwood

(courtesy official LAIKA Studios YouTube channel) SNAPSHOTStep inside Laika’s Wildwood, where a powerful golden eagle commands the skies and magic takes flight. Wildwood – based on Colin Meloy’s illustrated book series – will see Prue McKeel leave behind her home of Portland, Oregon, venturing into Wildwood on a dark quest to save Continue Reading

Movie review: The Sheep Detectives

(courtesy IMP Awards) No doubt the first response of many people upon seeing the whimsically touching trailer for The Sheep Detectives is that looks like precisely the sort of family film that it would’ve been fun to take the kiddies to during the recent school holidays. It looks to have Continue Reading

Hollywood and its history is conquered in the latest Minions & Monsters trailer

(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOT“Hollywood has a monster problem.” 🦑 🍌 Fresh off the worldwide blockbuster success of summer 2024’s funniest comedy, Despicable Me 4, Illumination expands its joyful animated universe with a riotous new chapter, featuring all-new characters, in the biggest global animated franchise: Minions & Monsters. This is the Continue Reading

Documentary review: A Gorilla Story: Told By David Attenborough #Happy100thDA

(courtesy IMDb (c) Netflix) When you have been alive for 100 years – happy birthday Sir David Attenborough once again! – and you’ve been filming for the greater part of that impressive lifespan, the odds are that there is more to find out about some of the memorable scenes you Continue Reading

From fossicking for fossils to a champion for life on Earth: Sir David Attenborough at 100 (curated article) #Happy100thDA

(courtesy The Conversation / BBC, CC BY-NC-ND) Article by Euan Ritchie, Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University (via The Conversation) Sir David Attenborough turns 100 this week. Very few people have the good fortune to live for a century. Fewer still achieve Continue Reading

A lifetime of service to the natural world – and those who love it: Happy 100th birthday to Sir David Attenborough! #Happy100thDA

One of the great and much-loved constants of my life has been the presence of Sir David Attenborough in many of the natural world documentaries I have watched and have come to love. A man who clearly loves, champions and advocates for his very precious subject matter, who possesses a Continue Reading

Movie review catch-up: Suncoast

(courtesy IMP Awards) Growing up, and especially starting on the transition to adulthood, is never an easy thing at the best of times, but when you’re life is not “normal”, not even close to it, (and that’s leaving aside the fact that the very idea of normal is a rubbery Continue Reading

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