(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOT“Don’t forget. Out here in space, there’s someone who’s always rooting for you.” In 2050 Seoul, astronaut Nan-young’s ultimate life goal is to visit Mars. ✨ But she fails the final test to onboard the fourth Mars Expedition Project. The musician Jay buries his dreams in a Continue Reading
Book review: Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries #3) by Martha Wells
(courtesy Tor Publishing Group) There have been more than a few stories of artificial lifeforms who have ended up being considerably more human than their creators. But is there anyone more human than the eponymous protagonist of this marvellous series by Martha Wells, a robot created to enforce, with extreme Continue Reading
“If it goes up in flames?” “It will burn”: Andor S2, E4-6 review
(courtesy IMP Awards) Star Wars: Andor is a superlatively impressive show on all kinds of levels but where it is really excelling in this humble reviewer’s opinion is the way in which it is deconstructing a host of romantic myths about what it means to be standing in defiant opposition Continue Reading
Dance your pain away with Mon Montha #StarWars #Maythe4thBeWithYou #Andor
(image courtesy IMP Awards) Star Wars: Andor, now four episodes into its second season, is a remarkable show in many ways. But one of the things that really sets it apart is the sheer raw humanity of many of the characters, best exemplified in the third episode, “Harvest”, where a Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2025 – Week 6 – Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Serbia (semi-final 2, part 3)
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
“I’m starting to think I am better at being in the closet.” Full trailer for Overcompensating
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTA24 and MGM’s Overcompensating is a college-set ensemble comedy about the wild, chaotic journey of Benny, a closeted former football player and homecoming king, as he becomes fast friends with Carmen, a high school outsider on a mission to fit in at all costs. With guidance from Continue Reading
Book review: Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Watching a writer’s journey is often a gloriously fascinating thing. Going from an impressive debut to successive novels that build upon actual realisation and beguiling promise, many writers go from strength-to-strength, honing their talent and their gift for evocative wordsmithing into something that leaves you breathless Continue Reading
Movie review: The Last Showgirl
(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s rare for a movie to really leave a mark on your heart and soul. Most movies, while thoroughly enjoyable and well worth your cinematic or streaming time, glance off you, never to be heavily thought of again; they have their moment, sometimes a very good one, Continue Reading
Book review: Exodus: The Archimedes Engine #1: Become the Traveler by Peter F. Hamilton
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) There is an enormous luxury and sense of expansive indulgence that comes with settling into a sci-fi epic that stretches for almost 900 pages. That sense of narrative pleasure only grows greater still when the author who has penned this magnificent space operatic masterpiece is Peter Continue Reading
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds meets Spongebob Squarepants in fun new Paramount+ ad
(courtesy YouTube (c) Paramount+) SNAPSHOTThe “Patrick Starship Enterprise” ad takes place on starship shaped like Patrick himself, complete with a thruster positioned right on his butt. This ship is crewed by the characters from Strange New Worlds — Captain Pike, Uhura, Spock — with the addition of Sandy Cheeks and Continue Reading