A review copy was provided by NetGalley; available 28 January 2023 in print and digital from Angry Robot Books You could be forgiven for wondering whether a fractured, desert-plagued dystopia is the place to find and be true to yourself. After all, it’s hardly a quiet couch in an air-conditioned Continue Reading
Welcome to Element City! Pixar releases teaser trailer for Elemental
SHAPSHOTDisney and Pixar’s Elemental is an all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together. The story introduces Ember, a tough, quick-witted and fiery young woman, whose friendship with a fun, sappy, go-with-the-flow guy named Wade challenges her beliefs about the world they Continue Reading
Book review: The Hemsworth Effect by James Weir
Is it possible to be too popular? You wouldn’t normally think so since who doesn’t want to be universally loved and adored – surely there can be no downside? – but in The Hemsworth Effect by debut author James Weir, the who, and for that matter, the what, of Byron Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #78: Sigrid, Amy Shark, Alok + Sigala + Ellie Goulding, LASTLINGS, Garbage + “Money Money Money”, the new ABBA lyric video
Laying your heart on the line is a hard thing to do. We might want to express the deepest, least-known parts of our love but we fear saying it wrong or being misunderstood and simply having all that honesty treated not in the way we intend. But these five artists, Continue Reading
Movie review: Black Panther – Wakanda Forever
Blockbusters, especially those bouncing with superhuman dexterity and grace off the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) production line, rarely have tangibly real emotion in abundance. But Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, written and directed by Ryan Coogler (he co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Robert Cole) seems determined to prove that this is Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Low (Vol. 2 – 4) by Remender, Tocchini, McCaig
Hope is usually not something in plentiful supply at the end of the world. Or if the superlative storytelling in Low by Rick Remender (writer) and Greg Tocchini (artist) with colours by Dave McCaig is to be believed, for quite a few millennia afterwards. In the long-running graphic novel series, Continue Reading
It’s the things we do that mean the most: John Lewis unveils its 2022 Christmas ad
SNAPSHOTThis Christmas it’s about what we do that matters most. That’s why we used our advert this Christmas to highlight an issue close to hearts, so that together, we can be a force for positive change for a generation of young people growing up in care or who have experienced Continue Reading
Book review: Annie Stanley All At Sea by Sue Teddern
At one key point in the sublime but emotionally honest loveliness that is Annie Stanley All At Sea, the eminently assured novel of Sue Teddern, our far-too-hard-in-herself protagonist sagely observes that there are simply some chapters in your life to which you cannot add a definitive “The End”. Given our Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The skeletally charming heart of Rebooted
SNAPSHOTIt’s not easy for a movie-star to age – especially when you’re a stop motion animated skeleton monster. Phil, once a terrifying villain of the silver-screen, struggles to find work in modern Hollywood due to being an out-of-date special effect. Rebooted is written & directed by Australian filmmaker Michael Shanks Continue Reading
Movie review: Enola Holmes 2
Pick an upbeat word, any upbeat word, and there’s a very good chance the dictionary will say point you straight to Enola Holmes 2. Leaving aside why the good burghers of dictionary-dom would do this, save for the fact that they, like us, have been utterly beguiled by the sparkly Continue Reading