(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
Movie review: Asteroid City
(courtesy IMP Awards) If you head into Asteroid City, Wes Anderson’s latest retro pastel-toned opus expecting a coherent story and a hard-hitting message-rich narrative you may be disappointed. That’s not to say it’s lacking in either of those two things; in fact, as storytellers go, Anderson is very good at Continue Reading
Let’s celebrate glorious uniqueness with Snoopy Presents: One-of-a-Kind Marcie
(courtesy IMDb 9c) AppleTV+) SNAPSHOTOne-of-a-Kind Marcie follows Marcie, an introvert who loves her solitude but also enjoys helping her friends. As they train for the school golf championship, Marcie assists Peppermint Patty as her caddie, offering thoughtful and deliberate advice to help her win. Meanwhile, after coming up with brilliant Continue Reading
Book review: Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie
(courtesy Penguins Books Australia) If you’ve left for anything beyond a sliver of a slice of time, you will be well acquainted, often painfully so, with the fact that life is messy, chaotic, unruly beast. It doesn’t meekly slot into the round holes we assign it nor does it compliantly Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #90: Disco Fries & Ferry Corsten, Rina Sawayama, Charli XCX, Dombresky + ROOSEVELT … and #Eurovision 2024 has a host city!
(Photo by Julian Myles on Unsplash) Life needs more than its fair share of uplifting influences. It doesn’t always get them but it needs them and thankfully these five artists are making sure that, for once at least, you get them! Every one of these songs is a shot of Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Agnes from S.P.A.C.E. chapters 1-3 by Sean Hall
(courtesy Artithmeric (c) Sean Hall) Sci-fi storytelling is always an escapist joy to read because it can pretty much go anywhere. In a universe where anything goes from lifeforms to defiance of physics to alternate universes without count, the narrative shackles are off and stories can be taken wherever the Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Sitting in Bars With Cakes, The Book of Solutions and Ballywalter
(via Shutterstock) One of my happy places is a cinema. Or perhaps more accurately, going to see movies; much of that has to do with the film itself of course, of which there are three fine upcoming titles showcased in this post, but it also means time with a good Continue Reading
Can you tell if you wander into a fairytale? The Changeling challenges you to tell if you can …
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTWhen Apollo’s father disappeared, he left his son a box of books & strange recurring dreams. Now Apollo is a father himself–and as he and his wife, Emma, settle into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll. Apollo’s old dreams return Continue Reading