There is a tendency for some people to react to stories that look, and it’s the word “look” that’s key here, like everything else that’s ever gone before, like they are the worst possible form of creativity, trading in tired clichés and tropes with nary an original thought to their Continue Reading
Book review: The Dark Between the Trees by Fiona Barnett
You know that deeply unsettling sense you sometimes get when you’re deep in the forest or bush, or walking past it, where it feels like someone is watching you? It’s a cloyingly unnerving sense that you are not alone, egged on by flashes of movement you swear you see in Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: Enola Holmes 2, They Cloned Tyrone and A Chance Encounter + Behind the craft featurette for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Netflix has just staged its annual big reveal event tudum – the name comes, so says engadget, is “named after the sound that plays alongside the Netflix logo whenever you start watching something on the service” – and among the many shows and movies that got a big unveil or Continue Reading
Upending the fairytale! BRIAR wonders what might happen if Sleeping Beauty had to save herself?
SNAPSHOTBRIAR [is] a brand new four-issue limited comic book series from Eisner Award-nominated writer, producer, and director Christopher Cantwell (Regarding the Matter of Oswald’s Body, Iron Man, Halt and Catch Fire), rising artist Germán García (Ka-Zar: Lord of the Savage Land), and colorist Matheus Lopes (Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow) that Continue Reading
Is it witch-ful thinking? No, you will gravely (and hilariously) scared when you watch Bugs Bunny’s Howl-O-Skreem Spooktacular!
The Looney Tunes celebrate Halloween! Daffy and Porky take a dear friend to a final resting place. Witch Hazel chases down an ingredient for her spell. Sylvester finds a suspicious motel, and Bugs meets a mummy. (synopsis courtesy YouTube (c) HBO Max) Halloween is usually all for really scary stuff. Continue Reading
Book review: The No-Show by Beth O’Leary
Beth O’Leary has proven herself to be one of those talented authors that you can depend on to deliver highly readable books that are both accessibly escapist and yet which come with ready wit and the meat substance of the human experience folded in. Her novels to date such The Continue Reading
Never Have I Ever S4 sneak peek: Does Devi have her work cut out for her?
It’s true – the dust has barely settled on Never Have I Ever season 3 (which was excellent by the way) and yet we have talk already of season 4. Why so soon, you might wonder? (Not that any of us are complaining about Never I Have Ever goodness coming Continue Reading
The journey continues: The Lord of the Rings – The Rings of Power (S1, E3-5) review
There’s a languid lusciousness to The Rings of Power which, if it was the only thing assessed by an audience when watching the show, might lead them to suspect the show is all thoughtful prettiness and not much else. Certainly there are moments of breathtaking beauty such as when Galadriel Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #74: Franc Moody, Magdalena Bay, Dora Jar, Zella Day, Michael Kiwanuka +new ABBA lyric video “Fernando”
We race here! We race there! We tell ourselves we are giving life its introspective due but are we really when we rarely stop to even breathe? Truth is, we often don’t out the brakes on long enough to ruminate about life, but thankfully a number of very talented and Continue Reading
Book review: Loveland by Robert Lukins
The ugliness of life is rarely beautiful but in the hands of masterful Australian writer Robert Lukins, it is realised in ways that are lyrically poetic, mesmerisingly powerful and profoundly moving. Loveland is a novel that carries a title that suggests the most beautiful things in life all embodied in Continue Reading