If you have ever wondered what the end point of mercenary capitalism looks like, and to be fair, it beginning and mid points too, then look no further than the chillingly imaginative second instalment in the Memory War series by Karen Osborne. Engines of Oblivion, the successor to the endlessly Continue Reading
Deadly. Brilliant. Dramatic. Heroic. Q-Force has all the words and all the style
SNAPSHOTQ-Force follows Steve Mayweather, AKA Agent Mary (voiced by Sean Hayes), who was once the leader of the American Intelligence Agency (AIA) until he came out as gay. The Agency was not able to fire him on the basis of his sexual orientation, so they sent him to West Hollywood Continue Reading
Love and trauma: Thoughts on Feel Good (season 2)
We never really leave our past selves behind. It’s tempting idea to think we can do that, excise the traumatised or hurt parts of ourselves and pretend they were never there in the first place and have absolutely no bearing on who we are right now. But it’s ultimately a Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: The Pebble and the Boy + Summer Days, Summer Nights + Dating & New York
The latest COVID lockdown in Sydney is still very much on, and so while I may not be able to go to the cinema, I can still dream of seeing movies there. Thankfully, the trailers keep on coming which makes all the dreaming remarkably easy. And while the actually going Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Sea of Stars (issues 6 -10) by Jason Aaron + Dennis Hallum, Stephen Green and Rico Renzi
If Sea of Stars issues one through five proved anything, it’s that space is as far from boring as you can get. Admittedly at the start of one of the most imaginative graphic novels series you’ll ever come across, Kadyn, the nine-year-old son of long-haul space trucker Gil, thinks it’s Continue Reading
Book review: The End of the Ocean by Maja Lunde
It has become apparent to all but the comprehensively deluded among us that the planet is in deep, sustained ecological trouble. Wildfires whip through places annually that might’ve seen a terrible conflagration once a decade, droughts lay waste to once productive land and catastrophically violent storms are sweeping in with Continue Reading
“What’s normal, anyway?” Everybody’s Talking About Jamie
SNAPSHOTInspired by true events, New Regency & Film4’s Everybody’s Talking About Jamie is the movie adaptation of the hit musical. Jamie New is 16 and doesn’t quite fit in—instead of pursuing a “real” career he dreams of becoming a drag queen. Uncertain about his future, Jamie knows one thing for Continue Reading
Singing, dancing and colourful darkness: The bright shadows of Centaurland
If you’re like Horse (Kimiko Glenn), and honestly who of us hasn’t felt at times like a warhorse magically transported from a land near-destroyed by neverending conflict to a place full of colour, vibrancy and magical creatures (only all the time, right?), then you might find being in Centaurworld just Continue Reading
Movie review: Vivo
There is a joyous vivacity that bursts out of every last musical and narrative pore in Vivo, an animated triumph that is fuelled by the wondrous musical talent of Lin Manuel-Miranda, a story that deftly balances the very silly and the immensely heartfelt and an animation style as apt to Continue Reading
You don’t need a TARDIS! Take a trip back in time with this mini-documentary showing cities in the 1890s
SNAPSHOTThe start of motion pictures, late 1890’s. Rare film of cities, towns and countries. High-quality remastered prints from the Lumiere archives and EYE Film Museum. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Getting out and about at the moment is a challenge for a great many people with the Delta strain of COVID-19 Continue Reading