(courtesy YouTube (c) Netflix) SNAPSHOTThis is the story of life’s epic battle to conquer and survive on planet Earth. Today there are 20 million species on our planet, yet what we see is just a snapshot in time — 99% of earth’s inhabitants are lost to our deep past. The Continue Reading
Book review: Melt With You by Jennifer Dugan
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Falling out with someone you are close to is never, ever pleasant. In fact, it’s downright traumatising, made especially more so if there’s no chance for any sort of resolution or closure – hopefully of the positive variety but this is life in all its chaotic Continue Reading
Movie review: Nimona
(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s a rare thing indeed to walk away from a movie, any movie, glorying in how absolutely perfect it is. There’s always an imperfection somewhere, a moment, however fleeting where you think the narrative baton was dropped or some dialogue jarred a little too much, and while Continue Reading
Book review: We Are Mayhem (A Black Star Renegades novel) by Michael Moreci
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) One of the reasons that franchises like Star Wars have done so well is that they tap into an inherent need we all have for life to feel epic and adventurous. To be fair, it very rarely is with commuting, bill paying and other day-to-day detritus Continue Reading
Only Murders in the Building season 3 review: E1 (“The Show Must …”), E2 (“The Beat Goes On” and E3 (“Grab Your Hankies”)
(courtesy IMP Awards) “Cosy murder” is one of those deliciously contradictory genre labels that somehow leaves you feeling simultaneously alarmed and reassured. If you stop to think about it, there really isn’t anything truly comforting about murder which, it’s inherent life-ending qualities apart, suggests trauma, violence, pain, loss and soul-scarring Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #91: Baby Storme, Chenayder, Jazmin Bean, G Flip + Amy Shark
(Photo by Nik on Unsplash) Wearing your heart on your sleeve might seem like a requirement for being a certified pop star but not everyone in the field really lets it all hang out. Many stick to bright and light and pleasingly shallow and while that’s absolutely fine and still Continue Reading
Mini mass of movie trailers: Maestro, A Million Miles Away, Uproar, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt and Poor Things
(via Shutterstock) When life feels like a ton of bricks weighing down upon a bowing back, stories are the one thing you an count on to transport you away from it all and make things feel less heavy, more full of life. It’s even better when you can experience the Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Once Upon a Time at the End of the World – Book one: Love in the Wasteland by Aaron, Tefenkgi & Loughridge
(courtesy Simon & Schuster) Apocalypses are, even by the sound of the word, loveless, thankless, dark and ugly affairs. That makes sense – aliens/zombies/nuclear-crazed warmongers or climate change-stoking fossil fuel addicts have ended the world and with it, all the things we loved and that made the ugly hand of Continue Reading
Book review: Love in the Time of Serial Killers by Alicia Thompson
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Life is supposed to be something wonderful, alive, free, giddily good and delightfully joyous right? Add it to anything and it immediately adds buoyancy and zest to proceedings, a sunshiney vibrancy that stands as a direct counterpoint to death, pain, loss and fossilisation of personality and Continue Reading
Sci-fi double x 2: Star Trek – Strange New Worlds S2, E9-10 and Foundation, S2, E4-5
(courtesy IMP Awards) Star Trek: Strange New Worlds S2, E9-10 Episode 9 “Subspace Rhapsody”At first glance, the idea of a totally musical episode of any Star Trek show might seem a little frivolous and fanciful. After all, some avowedly comic episodes aside such as The Original Series‘ “The Trouble With Continue Reading