Who doesn’t love an adventure? Hitting the figurative road, going places you’ve never been and experiencing life in an altogether different way to normal – it’s intoxicatingly alluring and thrilling beyond measure! Unless, of course, you’re A Thing Called Truth‘s Doctor Magdaelene Träumer, a workaholic scientist working in medicine R Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Inside Pixar reveals the journey of inspiration behind Dan Scanlon’s feature Onward
Where do the great storytelling ideas come from? If you’re a creator, you’ll likely shrug your shoulders and mutter a resigned “I have no idea” since inspiration seems to often strike out of nowhere, with little warning and some strange weird portal inside you for which there is no good Continue Reading
Book review: A Recipe for Family by Tori Haschka
You wouldn’t necessarily know it from looking at the messy clusterf__k that is modern society but people, by and large, like things neat and tidy. While life by its very unpredictable nature is messily chaotic and rife with glorious inconsistencies, and humanity is more than a little prone to not Continue Reading
If you think you know nature, think again – get ready to be surprised in Super/Natural
SNAPSHOTDiscover the secret powers and super senses of the world’s most extraordinary animals with National Geographic, James Cameron and Benedict Cumberbatch. (synopsis courtesy official Disney Plus Twitter) Nature is pretty damn amazing. That’s obvious every time you step out the door and feel the wind on your face, the sun Continue Reading
Movie review: Luck
Whether you are of a superstitious bent or right, we live in a world which seems to believe that much of what happens to us in life is beyond our control. It’s hard to say if this is the result of some pretty determined blame-shifting or hardcore laziness or simply Continue Reading
Newly single, forgot how to mingle: Thoughts on Uncoupled
Falling in love is quite possibly one of the most wondrously beautiful things to ever happen to a person. Falling out of love not much … But what if, like Michael Lawson (Neil Patrick Harris), the brokenhearted protagonist of Uncoupled, you didn’t fall out of love so much as had Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #70: Tessa Violet, Dagny, Alfie Templeman, Metric, Marshmello + Khalid … and the latest ABBA lyric videos + Eurovision 2023 news!
Life is tricky to navigate – that’s hardly a newflash. But as we grind our way through the ups and downs of life, we often have to remind ourselves of the good and the wonderful, or if they are in short supply, that it’s okay to embrace life’s lows because Continue Reading
The epic saga of two friends searching for home: Trailer and post drop for gorgeous series Ollie
SNAPSHOTLost Ollie is an epic adventure about a lost toy who braves the many dangers of childhood as he searches the countryside to reunite with the boy who lost him; and the story of the boy who lost more than a best friend. It’s a heartwarming tale for the child Continue Reading
Book review: The Warrior (Quest for Heroes #2) by Stephen Aryan
Preview copy provided by Angry Robot Books via NetGalley – The Warrior releases 23 August. There is an enthralling expansiveness to beautifully and richly told fantasy novels, a sense of imaginative foreverness that envelops you so completely you forget that there’s a real world waiting out there to rudely break Continue Reading
Movie review: 70 is Just a Number (70 on vain numero)
Age should not really be an impediment to doing anything in life. Admittedly infirmity or limitations imposed by advancing years do play a part, but those unavoidable parts of the ageing process aside, if you’re young and vital enough to still carpe diem the hell out of things, including falling Continue Reading