SNAPSHOTThis time, he is their only hope!Cary Grant is back in a new galactic adventure!When Alfred Hitchcock meets George Lucas… (synopsis via Laughing Squid (c) Fabrice Mathieu) It might seem like the unlikeliest of combinations but French filmmaker Fabrice Mathieu has found a way, a highly-talented and brilliantly entertaining way to Continue Reading
Book review: Axiom’s End (Noumena, Volume 1) by Lindsay Ellis
First contact with alien species usually go one of three ways. Either they turn up in ships beyond number and equipped with power and technology beyond imagining and invade the hell out of us; or they arrive bearing bouquets of world peace and the sharing of all knowledge and then Continue Reading
Comics review: Adventureman by Fraction / Dodson / Dodson / Cowles
If you’re going to go on adventure from the comfort of your own home, and let’s face it, necessity has made this the only real option in a time of pandemic, then the only way to really make it worth your while is to plunge into the steampunk-esque, Art Deco Continue Reading
Sit up and take notice: The history of Mandalore explained
SNAPSHOTThe saga of the planet Mandalore is spread across ’90s comic book series Tales of the Jedi, the animated series The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels, and the live-action series The Mandalorian. Here is the history of Mandalore explained. (synopsis courtesy Laughing Squid) Keeping track of all the various Continue Reading
Book review: The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas
If ever there was a love letter to the power, surety and steadfast supportiveness of friendship, it is The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas. First published in 1996, this much-loved novel came upon this reviewer’s path in a secondhand bookshop in Newtown, Sydney called Elizabeth’s in the form of Continue Reading
TV review: Alien Worlds
Humanity loves a good “what if?” proposition. It is yet another manifestation of the curiosity about the world, and everything which lies beyond it, which has sent us hurtling up the evolutionary ladder, going from spears and arrows, hunting and gathering to cutting-edge medicine and spaceflight. Alien Worlds, a British Continue Reading
Movie review: Soul
Just what exactly makes for a well-lived and satisfying life? It’s sounds like a simply enough question but dig down, as Pixar’s latest animation masterpiece Soul does with poignancy, honesty, good humour and rich imagination, and it becomes quickly apparent that there’s a far bigger answer waiting for someone to Continue Reading
Book review: The Saints of Salvation (Salvation Sequence #3) by Peter F. Hamilton
However long you have been waiting for a thrilling and exciting finish to a series of some kind, no matter the medium, there is something inordinately exciting about coming to the end of a story upon which rides the fate of a particular group of people. Above all else, you Continue Reading
I need more popcorn and candy stat! My 25 favourite films of 2020
What a strange and abnormal year 2020 has been when it comes to almost everything, including going to the movies. Or rather, NOT going to the movies; at least, not in a cinema, anyway. With COVID necessitating lockdowns in countries all over the world, some still in place as I Continue Reading
Small screen, big stories, much bingeing: My 20 favourite TV shows of 2020
When COVID-19 first hit, there were tweets and posts aplenty about how people were so bored in lockdown that they had watched literally everything on all the streaming platforms known to man. While I wonder how true that, since I suspect there is enough content on those platforms to keep Continue Reading