Workplace comedies are a tale as old as time. Well, as old as TV anyway which embraced the idea of humour derived from banal everyday work environments – the “sit” to the “com” – pretty much from the get-go, realising that in all that wage-earning ordinariness was an hilarity-inducing mix Continue Reading
Weekday movie poster art: Character images released for Disenchanted
SNAPSHOTIt has been more than ten years since Giselle (Adams) and Robert (Dempsey) wed, but Giselle has grown disillusioned with life in the city, so they move their growing family to the sleepy suburban community of Monroeville in search of a more fairy tale life. Unfortunately, it isn’t the quick Continue Reading
Book review: An A-List For Death by Pamela Hart
In an ordinary everyday world, there are very few people who would say murder is a reassuringly cosy thing. It’s dark, it’s violent and terrible and not the sort of thing you usually want to curl on the couch and read about; though, of course, those who listen to true Continue Reading
Movie review: The Lost King
It’s tempting to think of the chaotic world in which we live, and of the people who inhabit it, both current and historic, in starkly binary terms – good and evil, black and white, laudable and not. It helps us make sense of a messy world and it reassures us Continue Reading
An ever-growing pushback – on both sides … Thoughts on Andor (S1, E7-9 review)
As a people, we are in love with the idealism of taking a stand against something. In the hallowed, lofty part of our minds where noble intent and purity of belief exist, there dwells an incorruptible part of us that sees the world in the possible and the hopeful, that Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: Fractal Noise (a Fractalverse novel) by Christopher Paolini
SNAPSHOTJuly 25th, 2234: The crew of the Adamura discovers the Anomaly. On the seemingly uninhabited planet Talos VII:a circular pit, 50 kilometers wide. Its curve not of nature, but design. Now, a small team must land and journey on foot across the surface to learn who built the hole and Continue Reading
Book review: The Mermaid’s Tale by Lee Wei-Jing
Too often in life we are caught in that precariously unfulfilling place between vaulting hopes and dreams (which we all have whether we admit to them or not) and grimly unadorned reality where disappointment is an all too common presence. While many of us find a way out from this Continue Reading
Movie review: Joyride
One of the great weights that hang, albatross-like, around our necks as we go through life, is that things are supposed to happen a certain way. Somehow our collective consciousness as a society has decided that, whatever the circumstance and no matter how individual the experience, we must all go Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: Avatar – The Way of Water, Troll, There There, Sam & Kate + Four Samosas
Hello end of the year! It’s the traditional period in which movies come at us in numbers so considerable that your only option is to camp at your favourite cinema if you want to see them all. Leaving obvious hygiene issues aside, it means that all too often we’re having Continue Reading
Book review: Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra
Ah, the glitz and glamour of Hollywood! This relatively small piece of real estate in southern California has risen from the early days of silent pictures in the first decades of the twentieth century to have a cultural clout that continues for better or ill to bestride the globe. But Continue Reading