SNAPSHOTSeventy-five years from today, the human race has been cast from a dying Earth to wander the stars in a vast fleet of arks—each shaped by its inhabitants into a diverse and fascinating new environment, with its own rules and eccentricities. When her sister disappears while responding to a mysterious Continue Reading
Book review: Meet Me in Another Life by Catriona Silvey
Some bonds can never be broken it seems. In the mysterious perfection of Catriona Silbey’s Meet Me in Another Life, we are given devastatingly powerful insight into how some connections are so strong and unyielding that they persist in the face of every challenge or obstacle they encounter. To begin Continue Reading
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings … now with added posters + featurette
SNAPSHOTMarvel Studios’ Shang-Chi and The Legend of The Ten Rings stars Simu Liu as Shang-Chi, who must confront the past he thought he left behind when he is drawn into the web of the mysterious Ten Rings organization. The film also stars Tony Leung as Wenwu, Awkwafina as Shang-Chi’s friend Katy and Michelle Yeoh as Jiang Nan, as well as Fala Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #53: Yves Tumor, Jelani Aryeh, Ethan Fields, Maddie Ross, TIMMS + #Eurovision update!
Life comes in all kinds of weird emotional shapes and sizes. There’s the moments of exquisite sorrow and heartbreak which bend you so far out of shape you wonder if you’ll ever bounce back to who you were ever again. Then there, thankfully for who can take that much pretzeling Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Goodbye humanity in The Desert
SNAPSHOTIn a future where humanity has abandoned its home planet—or perhaps gone entirely extinct, as bits of atomic-bomb imagery suggest—robots rule, but it’s a lonely and strange existence. They’re drawn to things that remind them of the past, like libraries and TV sets, but also feel more primal urges, like Continue Reading
Book review: The Music of Bees by Eileen Garvin
People like, no, NEED to feel grounded and connected. Without that sense that we belong somewhere, to someone or to a particular time and place, we feel lost and unmoored, a debilitating condition that sends life into an agonisingly enervating limbo. Eileen Garvin explores exactly how this feels, with tenderness, Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Deep Beyond (issues 1-6) created by Mirka Arndolfo, David Goy, Andrea Broccardo and Barbara Nosenso
Stepping in a science fiction tale ripe with promise only to find it is all that you expect it to be and expansively so much more is one of life’s great pleasures. Well, on the assumption that you like science fiction aka sci-fi, of course. If you do, then you Continue Reading
Every body has a secret: Only Murders in the Building (poster + trailer)
SNAPSHOTOnly Murders In The Building follows three strangers who share an obsession with true crime and suddenly find themselves wrapped up in one as they investigate the mysterious death of a neighbour in their New York City apartment building. (synopsis courtesy TV Blackbox) I read a lot as a kid. Hardly Continue Reading
Book review: Dog Days by Ericka Waller
Humanity doesn’t do well with brokenness. Not so much the being in it, although god knows none of us like to loiter there for too long, but with the concept of brokenness itself, that troubling, unsettling sense that life is not as perfect or idyllic as we want it to Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: The past and the present meet awkwardly in BOUNTY
SNAPSHOTAn ex-bounty hunter makes breakfast with his young daughter, who becomes increasingly curious about his past profession. (synopsis courtesy YouTube (c) Studio Anomi) BOUNTY is a powerfully succinct piece of short form animation. It tells the story of a man whose daughter begins to ask him innocent questions about his Continue Reading