(courtesy IMP Awards) You can’t help but feel, as Halo sets out on its second season deep in the war-troubled depths of the 26th-century where humanity has colonised the stars and found that not all the neighbours are welcoming, that bad things are coming and they are coming up fast. Continue Reading
Welcome to Wonka Land: Go behind-the-scenes with 2023’s most deliciously fantastical film
(courtesy IMP Awards) “So quiet up, and listen down. Nope. Scratch that, reverse it.” When it comes to diving behind the scenes of a favourite movie or TV show, you either relish the chance to have the curtain pulled back or you blanche in horror at the idea that you’ll Continue Reading
Two friends, two worlds, one future: Full trailer debuts for Iwájú
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTIwájú is an original animated series set in a futuristic Lagos, Nigeria, co-produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios. The exciting coming-of-age story follows Tola – a young girl from the wealthy island, and her best friend, Kole, a self-taught tech expert, as they discover the secrets & Continue Reading
Book review: Artificial Condition (Murderbot Diaries #2) by Martha Wells
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) If you think the only place you will find generous amount of narrative humanity is in a book solely about actual people, then the Murderbot series by Martha Wells will have you thinking again. The first entry in the series, which kicked off in 2017, All Continue Reading
Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown #ValentinesDay
(courtesy IMDb) Love, sweet love … ain’t it the greatest? Well, yes, but not if you’re Charlie Brown sadly and no one, I repeat no one, is giving you Valentines, and in public, on the big day! The attitude, as expressed by Lucy (Melanie Kohn) in her trademark scornfully dismissive Continue Reading
Book review: Milo and Marcos at the End of the World by Kevin Christopher Snipes #ValentinesDay
(courtesy Harper Collins Australia) Unless you’ve grown in the church, it’s near impossible to fully appreciate just how all that corrosively twisted dogma can seep into your mind, heart and soul and turn your nice and healthy nascent humanity into something that looks like Eton Mess (a deliciously chaotic English Continue Reading
A massive mass of Super Bowl trailers: Twisters, Wicked, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, Deadpool & Wolverine, Kung Fu Panda 4, Despicable Me 4 + The Fall Guy
(via Shutterstock) Super Bowl is HUGE. HUGE HUGE … HUGE. Apparently it’s a football game, so I’m told and – and here’s who won if that matters to you – but it’s also a chance for a metric ton of advertising of all kinds of items and, happily for those Continue Reading
Book review: The Next Big Thing by James Colley
(courtesy Pantera Press) Life can be a LOT much of the time. And that doesn’t always meaning you have a surfeit of something; often and rather ironically and perversely, it can be the sheer absence of something that can feel like a multitudinous weight upon your shoulder and weigh you Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: A man, a robot and the end of the world in Webcam
(courtesy YouTube (c) DUST) SNAPSHOTWebcam follows James Mann, a distraught man who thinks himself alone amidst the aftermath of our world’s downfall in the not-so-distant future. He lives a solitary life within a sealed bunker, taking refuge from the ravages of a world run amok. James’ only companion is a Continue Reading
Movie review: Orion and the Dark
(courtesy IMP Awards) Human beings are built to be afraid. Not in a debilitating way, of course, but in a good, fight-or-flight piece of evolutionary triumphing where we assess threats and get away from them before they can get to us. In that respect, it works well; but what if Continue Reading