SNAPSHOTThe Book of Boba Fett, a thrilling Star Wars adventure, finds legendary bounty hunter Boba Fett and mercenary Fennec Shand navigating the Galaxy’s underworld when they return to the sands of Tatooine to stake their claim on the territory once ruled by Jabba the Hutt and his crime syndicate. Star Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Heartstopper #4 by Alice Oseman
Reading the Heartstopper series by Alice Oseman, now with a fourth very much welcome volume, is like falling into an affirming beautiful world in which anything is possible. It’s not perfect by any measure and Oseman goes to great lengths to be frank and honest about the challenges of love, Continue Reading
There’s a little magic in all of us … almost all of us: Encanto (new trailer and poster)
SNAPSHOTThis Fall, Walt Disney Animation Studios’ all-new film Encanto takes you to Colombia, where a magical family live in a magical home. The film is centered on a young girl and her family in Colombia, who all have magical powers, but, sadly, the young girl has no powers. Encanto is Continue Reading
Movie review: Free Guy
There’s a gloriously good key scene in Free Guy which nails precisely what this joyously manic film is all about. After a series of wake-up shots, where Guy (Ryan Reynolds in garrulously vulnerable form) has woken up at the same time in the exact same way with hallmarks of the Continue Reading
Weekday animation poster art – Star Trek: Prodigy
SNAPSHOTStar Trek: Prodigy follows a motley crew of young aliens who must figure out how to work together while navigating a greater galaxy, in search for a better future. These six young outcasts know nothing about the ship they have commandeered – a first in the history of the Star Continue Reading
Book review: They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
In a very real sense, there are no obvious spoilers in a novel like They Both Die at the End. Adam Silvera’s achingly beautiful, New York City-set story of two older teenagers who are forced to live an entire life in one after a phone call just after midnight from Continue Reading
Sensational streaming double: Cowboy Bebop and Stranger Things (season 4)
Onward streaming addicts! Yes, that includes me, not just because there are so many good programs to check out but because during the latest lockdown, which by the time of its lifting on Monday 11 October, will have run for 15 long weeks, streaming has saved my sanity and emotional Continue Reading
Movie review: Beautiful Dreamer #Queerscreen
Life is, when you stop long enough to think about it, a series of transitions. We don’t necessarily view them that way since much of life is one hurried leap from one moment to another but with hindsight firmly engaged and a rare second to fall into introspection, you can Continue Reading
Growth is a group project: Thoughts on Sex Education (season 3)
As series accumulate seasons, they either go one of three ways. They either keep going solidly, and too often stolidly on a BAU basis, or keep trying to push the boundaries until all resemblance to the first season iteration is lost, or, and this is where the nuanced, emotionally-rich brilliance Continue Reading
Book review: Shrouded Loyalties by Reese Hogan
One of the great and laudable hallmarks of the human condition is our willingness to place trust in others. It is rarely an entirely rational act, fuelled as much by gut instinct and hope as it is by dispassionate weighing of the facts, and underpinned always by the need to Continue Reading