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
Save who you can: The haunting apolcayptic horror of The Last of Us (trailer)
To be honest, after the disqueting, semi-apocalyptic weirdness of the COVID pandemic, my appetite for journeys into the darker side of humanity’s soul, and the cataclysmically devastating way it affects the world around us, has diminished significantly. Strangely during the lockdown height of the pandemic, when it psycholigically felt like Continue Reading
One more happy ending: Farewell and thank you to Grace and Frankie (S7, E 5-16)
Saying goodbye to anyone is hard, especially when it marks the end of a long, winding and very happy road, one you’re unlikely walk again. It’s a peculiar kind of melancholy that acknowledge good times have been had but that they’re now sadly over, and it applies almost as much Continue Reading
UPCOMING READS: Nubia: The Awakening by Omar Epps and Clarence A. Haynes
SNAPSHOTFor Zuberi, Uzochi, and Lencho, Nubia is a mystery. Before they were born, a massive storm destroyed their ancestral homeland, forcing their families to flee across the ocean to New York City. Nubia, a utopic island nation off the coast of West Africa, was no more, and their parents’ sorrow Continue Reading
Book review: The Stranger by Kathryn Hore
Renewal or revenge? They are, of course, polar divergent opposite choices and the idea and impetus behind them form the beating heart of The Stranger by Kathyrn Hore, a stunningly evocative novel that asks which one will save you, if there is saving to be done at all, and which Continue Reading
“What’s in this stuff?!” The hilarious thoughtful chaos of new comic strip TEX
SNAPSHOTTEX follows namesake character Tex Clapsaddle, an ambitious and imaginative eight-year-old learning to navigate the world outside his comfortable childhood. His parents, Barbara and Wayne, and siblings, Austin and Missy, are along for the ride as each character faces their own wild and momentous experiences. “TEX is a comic strip about that Continue Reading
The rebellion begins: Thoughts on Andor (S1, E1-3)
Star Wars has never been short of weight issues at the core of its storytelling. From the moment A New Hope, then just good old Star Wars before it begat a sprawlingly beguiling franchise, scrolled in memorable yellow and black across cinema screens in 1977, George Lucas’s take of good Continue Reading
Movie review: See How They Run
Murder is, by and large, not a funny business since killing does not generally make for guffaw-laden, or even whimsically giggly, storytelling. But in the hands of See How They Run, written by Mark Chappell and directed by Tom George, murder is gently hilarious and farcically rich every step of Continue Reading
Coming together to find their way home: Disney’s Strange World’s fun mix of family and adventure
SNAPSHOTTravel past space and time to a place of infinite mystery… Jake Gyllenhaal lends his voice to Searcher Clade, the son of a steadfast explorer. The original action-adventure journeys deep into an uncharted and treacherous land where fantastical creatures await the legendary Clades, a family of explorers whose differences threaten Continue Reading
Book review: Twice Shy by Sarah Hogle
Falling in love is quite wonderful, no matter who you are. As the anticipatory jitters become nascent attraction and then full-blown head over heels loved up splendour, you find yourself swept up in something which has no real equal with anything else we go through in life. It’s a life Continue Reading