My heart is glad! It really is beginning to look a LOT like Christmas as trailers begin to drop like snow upon a traditional festive scene and we get to see all the new Christmas shows that will be joining old classic favourites in our viewing schedule. Of course, until Continue Reading
Movie review: Black Adam
Getting something down to a fine art is one of those glitteringly positive phrases that suggests with effortless ease that you have mastered something to such a degree that you will only ever do it well now and well into the future. Inlaid with this supposition is that if you’re Continue Reading
Book review: With Love From Wish & Co by Minnie Darke
Life is so big and vast and full of people, things and events that we often forget that its rising and falling often rests on the smallest and most transitory of moments. Take the moment when seriously talented gift-giver, Marnie Fairchild, the protagonist of Minnie Darke’s latest emotionally resonant rom-com Continue Reading
Movie review: DC League of Super-Pets
Who knew superhero pet owning could be this much fun? Well, co-writer (with John Whittington) and director of DC League of Super Pets Jared Stern who takes a cute idea – what if Superman (John Krasinski) had a dog, Krypto (Dwayne Johnson) who came with him all the way with Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The magically romantic intervention of The Wish Granter
SNAPSHOTSet in a world where wishes are granted by mythical beings that live under fountains, an apathetic wish granter is forced to go above ground to grant a wish of love. (courtesy CGMeetup/YouTube) We are well schooled now in the idea that life comes with a plethora of multiverse moments. Continue Reading
Book review: Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell by Tobias Madden
The finding of love, true love is hard enough as it is without ratcheting up the degree of romantic difficulty by a thousand-fold but that’s precisely what our titular guy does in Take a Bow, Noah Mitchell, the second novel from up-and-coming YA writer Tobias Madden. How exactly does Noah, Continue Reading
It’s been a long year. Who wouldn’t want to have Christmas With You?
SNAPSHOTFeeling career burn out, pop star Angelina escapes to grant a young fan’s wish in small town New York, where she not only finds the inspiration to revitalise her career but also a shot at true love. (synopsis courtesy YouTube) I know, I know, Christmas romantic comedies are, by and Continue Reading
Movie review: Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris
Have you ever felt like you needed a great big cinematic hug? You know why – the day has been terrible or you’ve had a fight with someone you really like or life just seems like a LOT, and all you want to do is to sink into a movie, Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: Bang Bang Bodhisattva by Aubrey Wood
SNAPSHOTBang Bang Bodhisattva follows a trans woman hacker-for-hire who, in an attempt to make rent, teams up with a luddite P.I. to solve a murder she’s been falsely accused of. A unique hard-boiled detective / science fiction mash-up story unfolds, with a vibrant and diverse cast of characters. (image via Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #76: Munan, Lupa J, Hayden James, Tegan and Sara Wongo + new ABBA lyric video “The Name of the Game”
Being emotionally honest is not a big thing in our society. Oh, all the Oprah moments and talk-show confessions might convince you sometimes that’s the case but the truth is that people put a great deal of effort into personal PR and convincing the world, whether in person or on Continue Reading