When you read as much as this reviewer, you will be used to the florid expansiveness of most back cover book blurbs which promise the earth, the moon and the stars, a word-driven trailer of sorts for the story which lies tantalisingly within. Much of the time the blurbs mail Continue Reading
Shhhh … let the power of Bedtime Stories with Ryan send you to dreamland
(courtesy YouTube) SNAPSHOTBedtime Stories with Ryan is a “restful show” from an “anxious mind” and features music from Sleeping at Last. “We’re so happy to create a program with the express goal of putting people to sleep. This show has actually been a dream of mine for a while,” said Continue Reading
Retro movie review: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
(courtesy IMP Awards) The meek, the Bible opines, shall inherit the Earth, but after the riotously fun and religiously-laden delights of 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, you might wonder whether the titular character doesn’t have a better than average chance of taking that inheritance as his own. Five Continue Reading
Book review: Without Further Ado by Jessica Dettmann
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) The world can be divided in any number of interesting ways but for the purposes of this review, let’s just say that there are those who use pop culture as an amusing, sometimes comforting diversion and those, who for thoroughly understandable reasons (reality sucks), use Continue Reading
Movie review: Elemental
(courtesy IMP Awards) We are paradoxical creatures when it comes to watched entertainment. We want to both escape into places so wildly different and vibrantly escapist that the humdrum of the day-to-day world fades to the lingering whispers of a dull roar but we want to find something in all Continue Reading
Book review: Ghost Girl, Banana by Wiz Wharton
(courtesy Hachette Australia) We are all products of our past and present. That might seem self-evident and startling obvious, but for all its lived veracity, the truth is that we often struggle to bridge the two or to fully understand and live out how the past impacts on the current Continue Reading
They did what?! Yup, They Cloned Tyrone (poster + trailer)
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTA pulpy, sci-fi mystery caper in which an unlikely trio investigates a series of eerie events, alerting them to a nefarious conspiracy lurking directly beneath their hood. Fontaine, a neighborhood drug dealer, is shot dead by rival Isaac and then is very shocked to wake up in Continue Reading
A mini-mass of animated trailers: Elio, Nimona and Mickey Mouse’s Steamboat Silly
(via Shutterstock) As an artform, animation promises so much and often delivers even more. Not constrained by the bounds of physics or probability, animated creations can tell all kinds of unlikely and heartfelt stories, fuelled by vibrant imagination and clever inventiveness, and immerse us in worlds we might never have Continue Reading
Peace out, virgins! Thoughts on Never Have I Ever season 4
(courtesy IMP Awards) We are a curious concoction. We spend out the growing up part of our lives looking forward to the adult part of being alive, convinced that this transition will be the thing that defines and makes us, that will confirm that everything we’ve done up to that Continue Reading
Can you teach an old dog new tricks? (No, not you, Dug!) Carl’s Date short gets a trailer
(courtesy Twitter (c) Pixar / Disney) SNAPSHOTThis year, Pixar Animation Studios resumes the magical moviegoing tradition of pairing their feature film with an animated short—like 2018’s Oscar®-winning Bao that accompanied Incredibles 2 in theaters [sic]. Releasing in front of Elemental is a new short that catches up with Carl Fredricksen Continue Reading