When the rubber hits the road in life, it’s hard, if not damn near impossible, to believe that any of the mess and damage can be fixed. Especially by love, which, if you go with the popularly romantic notion that it’s gooey, soft and ephemerally nice, is barely able to Continue Reading
It’s not as far as a long time ago but it’s a way back even so: Andor re-imagined as a ’70s TV movie promo
SNAPSHOTAnd now, we bring you tonight’s TV movie premiere. Get ready to travel to a far away galaxy that existed a long, long time ago. It’s the science fiction spectacular…ANDOR. Every Thursday night, only on ABC. (via Laughing Squid (c) Auralnauts) Let’s be clear from the start – Andor is Continue Reading
Movie review: Roald Dahl’s Matilda the Musical
There’s something enormously energising about watching a thoroughly in-love-with-life musical. For a few brief hours, you are taken from a world in which disappointments are legion, pain is manifest and hope, joy and justice must fight for limited space, into one where things may look bleak for a time but Continue Reading
Book review: The Seven Skins of Esther Wilding by Holly Ringland
If you have ever felt the full and unyielding grip of grief, you will be all too well acquainted with how impenetrably tight and suffocating it can feel. When it has its hold upon you, it becomes near impossible to imagine what it would like to be free from it; Continue Reading
A ton of tantalising streaming trailers: Foundation (S2), That ’90s Show, The Ark, Poker Face, Night Court and The Last of Us
Another year, another slew of TV/streaming options to dazzle, entertain and yes, overwhelm. That’s both the blessing and the cursing of the current digital tsunami of content – a lot of it is very good and you want to watch it all but finding the time is a huge challenge. Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Spend some whimsical time with A Tennis Ball on His Day Off
SNAPSHOTA tennis ball reflects on aging, self-improvement, hustle culture, and his own impending mortality. But in a cute way. Tennis Ball on His Day Off is written and directed by animation filmmaker / 3D artist Julian Glander … This was commissioned by and produced by Cody Dematteis at [Adult Swim] Continue Reading
Retro movie review: Peter Rabbit
It’s always a delicate path to navigate when you take a well-loved heritage property and attempt to give it a bright, shiny, newly relevant glow. Sometimes it can work a treat bringing a whole new raft of converts to stories that might otherwise have been deemed too old or fuddy-duddy, Continue Reading
Give a little whistle! Disney voice actors and their animated counterparts captured in supercut
SNAPSHOTIn honor of the 99th anniversary of Walt Disney Studios, video editor Thomas H. Smith compiled an amazing supercut of iconic Disney voice actors and foley artists performing their roles side by side with their animated selves from their films. (synopsis (c) Laughing Squid) If you are the kind of Continue Reading
All the action and intrigue a realpolitik-loving heart could want: Thoughts on Jack Ryan (S3)
When it comes to escapist entertainment, political action thrillers are in a gloriously batshit crazy class all of their very own. Employing only the loosest of adherence to the real world, although ostensibly a stalwart reflection of it, these gripping stories of life behind the veneer of political and diplomatic Continue Reading
Book review: All About Evie by Matson Taylor
When you fall in love with a character from a book, your fondest wish is to stay with them, enjoy their company and see where they go next. It’s a natural reaction to any character who leaps off the page and into your heart, or indeed any person you meet Continue Reading