A sitcom and a sci-fi drama reviewed in the same post? Why not, I say; sure, they are wildly disparate genres, and have little to nothing in common but then that’s the joy of an eclectic taste in streaming programs. You can veer wildly from one type of narrative to Continue Reading
Book review: Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
One of the most exciting things about reading science fiction is its limitless capacity to take you to places that you never in a million years or multiverses encounter. We live in a limited world, bounded by atmosphere and space, and circumscribed by culture, geography and a thousand other finite Continue Reading
Worlds will collide: Official trailer released for Disney’s American Born Chinese
SNAPSHOT“Worlds will collide.” Jin Wang (Ben Wang), struggling with his school life and home life, meets the new foreign exchange student at his school, leading him to become involved in a battle between Gods of Chinese mythology. American Born Chinese is a series created by Kelvin Yu – a character Continue Reading
Book review: I’ll Leave You With This by Kylie Ladd
The conventionally bucolic ideas of families is that they are warm, safe, inclusively supporting places where unconditional love and selfless intimacy are the hallmarks of relationships brought together and nurtured, not just by proximity but by a genuine liking for the others with whom you are fated by birth to Continue Reading
UPCOMING READ: Is salvation possible in Foul Heart Huntsman by Chloe Gong
SNAPSHOTWinter is drawing thick in 1932 Shanghai, as is the ever-nearing threat of a Japanese invasion. Rosalind Lang has suffered the worst possible fate for a national spy: she’s been exposed. With the media storm camped outside her apartment for the infamous Lady Fortune, she’s barely left her bedroom in Continue Reading
A semi-ton of streaming trailers: Schmigadoon! S2, Silo, I’m a Virgo, Rennervations + Barry S4
I am an ambitious man. No, I do not long to bring about world peace (though that would be nice) or to become president of something or to write the definitive novel to which all other novels are compared (though that would, naturally, be also very nice). What I do Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Love burns fiercely if shyly in Extinguished
SNAPSHOTIn a world where flames represent love, it’s easy to get your heart burned. (courtesy YouTube (c) Ashley Anderson and Jacob Mann) Being attracted to someone romantically is pretty exciting. All those swirly emotions, all that hope, those waves of thrilling possibility – it’s a delight! But sometimes, no oftentimes, Continue Reading
Movie review: Aftersun
Normally the remembrance of a pivotal holiday is a thing of wonder and nostalgic charm. A respite from the incessantly exhausting demands of the everyday world, holidays usually represent something to be treasured and held in rose-tinted awe, an escape from the failings of the world-weary present that’s wrapped in Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Love According to Dalva, Past Lives and Wildflower
Movies that takes you deeply and sensitively into the human condition are perhaps the rewarding of films to watch. While they don’t possess the bigness and brightness of blockbusters, what they do have in spades is a beguiling sense of human relatability, the sense that even though the characters may Continue Reading
Light those vanilla candles! We’re headed to the Haunted Mansion where things are seriously unhinged
SNAPSHOT“Look alive, foolish mortals!” Inspired by the classic theme park attraction, Disney’s Haunted Mansion is about a woman and her son who enlist a motley crew of so-called spiritual experts to help rid their home of supernatural squatters. Disney’s Haunted Mansion movie is directed by the American filmmaker Justin Simien, Continue Reading