There are, so we are told, only so many story types in circulation. Which means, of course, that even when you try to be blisteringly original, you are usually, no matter how hard to try or how much imagination you bring to the narrative table, repeating much of which has Continue Reading
Book review: All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton
Humanity loves, among its many peccadilloes and quirks, the idea of positive, elevating, life-inspiring emotions. With an alacrity bordering on the zealous and borne no doubt of a desperate desire to push aside any idea that we are trapped in a gothic horror show from which there is no reasonable Continue Reading
Haha – Free Guy may be coming to a cinema near you in December … or not … or it might … or it might not …
SNAPSHOTIn the vein of hits such as Wreck-It-Ralph, Free Guy will follow a background character who discovers he lives in a video game and works to prevent the makers of the game from shutting it down with the help of an avatar. (synopsis courtesy Coming Soon) If there was a Continue Reading
The Walking Dead: The World Beyond – “Brave” (S1, E1 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND ZOMBIES SPORTING THE LATEST IN BLUE SPRAY PAINT … Once more into the shambling dead, my friends, once more! Yes, after flogging the life out of The Walking Dead, which should have given up the ghost a few seasons back, and offering up Fear the Walking Continue Reading
The hilarity of humanity: Data gets his own laugh-heavy ’90s-style sitcom
SNAPSHOTA wholesome 90s sitcom revolving around the beloved android crewmember of the starship Enterprise-D. (synopsis via Laughing Squid) Doctor Noonian Soong bless Thomas Price of TrainDozer who has given us what we need most in the COVID-blighted days of 2020 – an amusing ’90s style sitcom starring the heart and Continue Reading
Comics review: Folklords by Matt Kindt – Matt Smith – Chris O’Halloran
There is something utterly beguiling about a well-told mystery well-sustained with just the right amount of breadcrumb clues along the way. And beguiling is just the word for the intriguing charms of Folklords, written by Matt Kindt, illustrated by Matt Smith and coloured by Chris O’Halloran, which takes places in Continue Reading
Let’s find out! Is Enola Holmes as amusing as it is exuberantly intense? The blooper reel says “YES”
Netflix, it will not surprise you to learn, has another cleverly exuberant hit on its streaming hands. The new kids on the watercooler block is Enola Holmes, based on Nancy Springer’s series of delightful books, a film that’s all about the younger sister of Sherlock Holmes (Millie Bobby Brown) who Continue Reading
Book review: Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell #LoveYourBookshop #LYBD2020
Happy Love Your Bookshop Day everyone! If you are like me, you love your bookshop every day and the books you get there with immense affection, but today is a day when you can shower love, praise and enduring pleasure upon the good people who put up with a lot Continue Reading
Comics review: Crowded (TP 1 & 2) by Sebela / Stein / Brandt / Farrell / Rae
There is no greater joy than plunging into a highly-regarded series of any kind, but in this case a graphic novel, and finding that it’s not just as good as everyone says but quite possibly even better. Eisner-nominated Crowded from Image comics, which has now been collected into two gorgeously-presented Continue Reading
Book review: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson
Belonging somewhere, truly belonging somewhere, is a powerful thing. It can provide the kind of safety and security of which adventurous, well-lived lives are made, it allows us to explore and express who we are without fear of sanction or condemnation, and it instils a sense of shared humanity through Continue Reading