The release of ABBA’s Voyage album late last year, after a 39-year drought of new full-length releases from the much-loved iconic Swedish pop group – we did get “I Am the City” in the early Nineties on More ABBA Gold and a scattering of part releases in a medley on Continue Reading
Book review: The Fossil Hunter by Tea Cooper
Split narratives, whether its differing timeframes, character point-of-view or physical location, can be problematic in novels. While they can shed illumination aplenty on the storyline, their two vantage points providing dual and hopefully complementary insight on the unfolding story, they can often end up with one being compelling and the Continue Reading
Our deadliest weapon is our greatest hope: HALO debuts its second sensational trailer
SNAPSHOTAliens threaten human existence in an epic 26th-century showdown. A live-action TV series based on the video game Halo. This new Halo series is created by and developed by Steven Kane (creator of The Last Ship, producer on The Closer and American Dad!) and Kyle Killen. The series scripts are Continue Reading
Movie review: The Tender Bar
Life has a way, especially in the midst of a neverending pandemic, of making you feel as if no good can ever come from it. Grinding mercilessly and ceaselessly on, it makes demand after demand without once feeling as if it giving anything of much value back ; it is, Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The haunting exile of Migrants
SNAPSHOT“Two polar bears are driven into exile due to global warming. They will encounter brown bears along their journey, with whom they will try to cohabitate.” Migrants is a project made by students studying at PÔLE – a 2D & 3D animation cinema school based in Roubaix, France. It’s directed Continue Reading
Book review: Out of Character by Annabeth Albert
No book is ever read in an experiential vacuum. Any reader brings to a novel their world view, their pain and their sorrow, their hopes and their joys and all of them go into how they react to any story, often dialling it up or shaping into ways more intense Continue Reading
The books they are a-coming! Angry Robot Books announces three exciting new releases
I am huge reader of sci-fi and fantasy books, and as such, I love it when authors, and just as importantly publishing houses, decide to go all out to do something a little, or a lot, different with the genre. It’s why I love Angry Robot Books who, quite apart Continue Reading
Book review: Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
The world, nay the galaxy is a big, messily wonderful and diverse place and it’s a joy to see it reflected in the pages of Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki, a vigorously alive novel that takes a brilliantly out-there premise and runs with it in ways that will Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Head Lopper & The Island and the Plague of Beasts by Andrew Maclean with Mike Spicer
Being late to the party is not always a bad thing. Especially in the near-eternal world of pop culture where, true, the latest and greatest thing does burn brightly and brightly in the ephemeral digital zeitgeist, creating the impression that once it’s gone, that’s it in terms of anyone else Continue Reading
Book review: Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
If you’re a reader of any devotion, you will doubtless have an enduring and profound love with your local bookshop or, quite possibly, a great many bookshops. Part and parcel of that great and enduring romance with the retailer to end all retailers – that last phrase alone should establish Continue Reading