Plunging yourself into a show created by Amy Sherman-Palladino, and then executive produced by her and her collaborator/husband Daniel is one of life’s truly great pleasures. Happy to pack a thousand words in where most people speak a hundred, shows like the Gilmore Girls, Bunheads, and currently The Marvelous Mrs. Continue Reading
Book review: Cat Lady by Dawn O’Porter
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) Life is all about playing parts. That’s not to say that’s healthy, unless of course you’re an actor in which case have at it and then some, but the reality is that, for a whole of reasons, many of us spend our days unconsciously being Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #88: Pride 2023 – Jake Shears w/- Kylie Minogue, Dannii Minogue, Alison Goldfrapp, Trixie Mattel + Adam Lambert x Sigala + Australia’s Voyager goes “Te Deum” for Eurovision!
(via Shutterstock) I love Pride! I love the fact that in a world that, for all the progress the LGBTQI+ community has made, still feels addicted to the idea that we are wrong, broken or god-knows-what, we can celebrate the fact that we are not any of the things they Continue Reading
Perhaps it is time to begin again: New TV spot drops for Star Wars’ Ahsoka
(courtesy Gizmodo (c) Lucasfilm) SNAPSHOTA spin-off from the series The Mandalorian, taking place in the same timeframe as that series and its other interconnected spin-offs after the events of Return of the Jedi (1983). Rosario Dawson stars as Ahsoka Tano, reprising her role from The Mandalorian. The character was created Continue Reading
The Truth Will Surface: Thoughts on Silo (S1, E1-6)
(courtesy IMP Awards) Humanity has long shown an evolutionarily advantageous ability to turn the very worst of times into, if not the very best of times because not even we are that good, then better times than they might otherwise be. We have employed our inventiveness, our thoughtfulness, our humour Continue Reading
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