SNAPSHOTReal landscapes. Remarkable creatures. An extraordinary team. Watch how the creators of Prehistoric Planet brought this one-of-a-kind documentary to life. (courtesy official Apple TV YouTube Channel) There ae those among us who love to see the curtain pulled back on shows or movies they watch, and those who manifestly do Continue Reading
Movie review: Jurassic World – Dominion
Endings matter, especially when it comes to the stories we tell. We might not be able control much about our spotty, blighted existence but one thing we can most certainly influence, and to hopefully satisfying effect, are the stories we tell, and how they end. Get the finish right and Continue Reading
Book review: First Time For Everything by Henry Fry
No matter who you are, growing is never, ever easy. It becomes significantly less easier when you have the audacity to be born singularly unable to march to the beat of a mainstream drum, a “failing”, so the gatekeepers of what is normal and correct, by society’s standards anyway, that Continue Reading
Graphic novel: Lightfall (book 2) – Shadow of the Bird by Tim Probert
It makes your heart glad when you can return to a place and to characters you have come to love. Picking up Lightfall 2: Shadow of the Bird was one of those moments you have when consuming any kind of pop culture where you feel like you are back in Continue Reading
A romantic indie comedy double: Honor Society and Mack & Rita
Is there anything new or different you can do with romantic comedies? You might think “NO!” they are tripped in a delightful trope-heavy prison of their own making; but the fact is, with a little cleverness and imagination, you can add some freshness and originality to the mix. Granted, not Continue Reading
Book review: Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Brilliantly well-written romantic comedies are a thing of escapist wonder. In a world where life too often throws on beige garments, walk at a sullenly glacial pace through each and every day and spends its free time doing tax returns and crunching rainfall data from 1943, rom-coms often us the Continue Reading
It’s time to question everything…and we mean EVERYTHING! Meet the glorious Oddballs team of James and Max
SNAPSHOTOddballs follows James, a bubble-shaped boy, whose observations on life fuel his comedic rants at everyday annoyances and elevates them to laughably absurd heights. Along with his best friends Max (a talking crocodile) and Echo (a girl who claims to be from the future), James’ ridiculous schemes to question norms Continue Reading
The past cannot be outrun but it can be reckoned with: Thoughts on Obi-Wan Kenobi (S1, E3-6)
One thing that was firmly established in the first two episodes of Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi is that is no swashbuckling rush to an action-soaked finish line. That’s a good thing and it makes sense when you factor in that there’s already so much we know about where Obi-Wan Kenobi Continue Reading
Tomes to add to the TBR #1! Peace Keeper by B.L. Blanchard, Before Takeoff by Adi Alsaid, Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White, Little Bird by Tiffany Meuret and January Fifteenth by Rachel Swirsky
“Hi, my name is Andrews and I have a TBR pile so tall and full of titles that it will down fall and bury me.” “Hi Andrew.” I am a man of many books and many aspirational reading adventures and while I have read 58 books this year, which is Continue Reading
Book review: Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens by Shankari Chandran
Whether we know it or not, we are powerfully shaped by our stories and histories, by where we belong and who we belong to, and by how the past is inextricably part of our present. This truth is captured with powerfully moving resonance by debut novelist Shankari Chandran who writes Continue Reading