Life is a LOT. A LOT. And when it all gets so overwhelming that you don’t know which way is up, you need people who have lived and breathed the same kinds of highly emotional moments as us to really give it voice and make sense of it all. Which Continue Reading
Book review: The Last Watch (a novel of The Divide #1) by J. S. Dewes
Much as this reviewer loves wandering through bookstores and adding to a TBR pile that is tall enough to block out the sun at last count, there are times when a book buyer’s fingers lead them to online sites where apart from the book you came for, a thousand different Continue Reading
The suspense will kill you … Wednesday receives a full enthrallingly dark new trailer
SNAPSHOTA sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams’ time as a student at Nevermore Academy. Following Wednesday’s attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago — all while Continue Reading
Movie review: Ali & Ava
In general, movies have an abiding loud of love wrought in big, loud, bold movements, all meet-cutes and happenstance and colour and joy in letters that stretch to the candy-coloured heavens in neon-lit tones befitting something that is, most people would agree, WONDERFUL. And yes, while, falling in love and Continue Reading
Book review: Moon Sugar by Angela Meyer
There is something thrilling about a writer who is so acrobatic in their writing style and so skilled at their craft that they can handle a number of ideas and genre leaps in the one novel and never have it feel for a second like it’s a literary Frankenstein. Such Continue Reading
The final voyage begins: Trailer drops for the third TNG-heavy season of Picard
SNAPSHOTPicard features Patrick Stewart reprising his iconic role as Jean-Luc Picard, which he played for seven seasons on Star Trek: The Next Generation, and follows this iconic character into the next chapter of his life. LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Jeri Ryan, and Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Buckhead by Shobo Coker and George Kambadais
We demand a lot from our storytelling. Not consciously of course (some notable extremes of fandom aside), but somewhere in that liminal space where unexamined thought and emotional need intersect, we crave a story that will enliven our sometimes dreary lives, that will seem inexpressively epic but accessibly intimate, and Continue Reading
“They’re probably out looking for you right now” … Festive rom-com Falling For Christmas heartwarmingly asks if you really want to be found
SNAPSHOTA newly engaged, spoiled hotel heiress (Lindsay Lohan) gets into a bad skiing accident, suffers from total amnesia and finds herself in the care of a handsome, blue-collar lodge owner (Chord Overstreet) and his precocious daughter in the days leading up to Christmas. Falling for Christmas is directed by American Continue Reading
More tales of fire and blood: House of the Dragon (S1, E4-6) review
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND DRAGONS … AND POWER HUNGRY REGRET … As an exploration of how power, both the attaining of it or its oft damning pursuit, corrupts, you can’t go past the quietly searing excoriation of House of the Dragon, with episodes four to six of its first season Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs: Great lockdown videos from Jessie Ware, Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, Jessy Lanza, Tove Lo + SOFI TUKKER … and a Eurovision 2023 update too!
Let’s face it – the two years when the COVID pandemic was its ragingly worst and lockdowns were everywhere were TOUGH. Really TOUGH. Even if you liked being home and reading and streaming and cosying up to those you love (like this blogger), there were times, many times, when it Continue Reading