Granted using the word “TV” is a tad redundant in this age of cord-cutting, antenna-banishing streaming but there’s still a great deal of affection for an object many people still use and which harkens back to a time when sitting down to watch visual entertainment didn’t amount to a massive Continue Reading
Book review: The Bird’s Child by Sandra Leigh Price
Finding, and keeping, a place to belong is one of the great imperatives of the human soul. We all need somewhere that feels our own, with people who will love us unconditionally and give us the room and the encouragement to be precisely the people we need to be. Discovering Continue Reading
Together at the end of the world: Cover + synopsis for Wayward by Chuck Wendig
SNAPSHOTFive years ago, ordinary Americans fell under the grip of a strange new malady that caused them to sleepwalk across the country to a destination only they knew. They were followed on their quest by the shepherds: friends and family who gave up everything to protect them. Their secret destination: Continue Reading
Movie review: Dune – Part One
Some stories are so big and complex that they almost defy being told. “Almost” being the operative word here; of course Frank Herbert found a way with Dune, his 1965 novel which has deservedly earned iconic status as a breathtakingly vital piece of science fiction. It is the film of Continue Reading
Embrace to chaos: The burred lines between reality and dreams in Moon Knight
SNAPSHOTThe series follows Steven Grant, a mild-mannered gift-shop employee, who becomes plagued with blackouts and memories of another life. Steven discovers he has dissociative identity disorder and shares a body with mercenary Marc Spector. As Steven/Marc’s enemies converge upon them, they must navigate their complex identities while thrust into a Continue Reading
Every End is a New Beginning: Thoughts on After Life (S3)
Grief is a cruel and strangely capricious thing. One second you are right as rain, or as close to it as you get in the aftermath of great pain and loss, and the next? Well, the next you are lost again in all manner of deep and abiding sadness, the Continue Reading
Book review: Good Eggs by Rebecca Hardiman
Meeting Millie Gogarty is likely one of the best things you’ll ever do in life. An 83-year-old Irish woman from the village of Dun laogshire in Dublin, Ireland, Millie is growing old, to co-opt a well worn phrase, disgracefully. Not that she is necessarily try to settle into a rebellious Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Stray Dogs by Tony Fleecs and Trish Forstner
Stray Dogs is a wickedly clever and charmingly unnerving graphic novel. At first glance, it is all Secret Life of Pets meets 101 Dalmatians meets All Dogs Go to Heaven, a veritable warm hug of a love letter to humanity’s best friend and the selfless people who rescue them from Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Glory in the The Legend Of The Crabe Phare
SNAPSHOTThe Crabe Phare is a colossal crustacean who lives at the bottom of the ocean. When this mammoth creature rises from the deep, he doesn’t have destruction on his mind. Instead, he wants to collect and preserve ships to add to his underwater collection. The huge creature is not the Continue Reading
Book review: The Apocalypse Seven by Gene Doucette
Apocalypses are usually pretty intense affairs. How can they not be? The world is ended, much life has been lost (or reanimated), civilisation has fallen and those caught up in it, know, they just know, that somehow if they manage to survive life will never be the same again. So, Continue Reading