SNAPSHOTCreated by and starring Ryan in her scripted series debut, The Duchess follows the powerful and problematic choices of a fashionably disruptive single mom living in London. Her daughter, Olive, is her greatest love so she debates a second child with her greatest enemy — Olive’s Dad. Can two wrongs Continue Reading
Movie review: Tenet
On the surface, time might seem a beguilingly simple concept. There is a past, a present and future and all things being equal, and an enormously talented and imaginative British-American film director not being involved, time moves forward, quickly and smartly, one event leading reasonably sequentially to another. Nice and Continue Reading
Book review: The Miseducation of Evie Epworth by Matson Taylor
One of the most delightful parts of reading a book is discovering the characters who, if written well, play a key role in the story of which you are now, as a reader, a part. While you are not part of the story per se, it can often feel like Continue Reading
Movie review: Missing Link
Among the great animation houses of our time, there are four nearest and dearest to this reviewer’s heart – Pixar, Aardman Animations, Studio Ghibli and Laika, who have gifted us with the inestimable delights of Coraline, ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, and most recently, Missing Link. Laika, Continue Reading
Book review: The Lightest Object in the Universe by Kimi Eisele
When it comes to the end of the world, a subject with which humanity, especially in pandemic-plagued 2020, seems to have an endless fascination, the assumption almost always is that nothing good can come of it. That’s fair enough – on the surface, and even deep down among the zombies, Continue Reading
Swirly vague ideas made real: Watch the final table read for The Good Place
There is no doubt The Good Place was, and will always remain, a very special TV show. Just how special is articulated beautifully by creator Mike Schur who begins the table read of the final two episodes or chapters of the show with as eloquent, poetic and heartfelt a tribute Continue Reading
Book review: The Constant Rabbit by Jasper Fforde
If there is one thing at which Jasper Fforde excels, and let’s face there are many (have you read his books? Read and learn the breadth of this writer’s extensive talents), it is the ability to wrap hard, made-of-steel truths inside an outer wrapping of appealing wit, whimsy and quirk. Continue Reading
10 years on, Inception remains Christopher Nolan’s most complex and intellectual film
Daryl Sparkes, University of Southern Queensland Ten years on from its release, and hitting cinemas again, Christopher Nolan’s Inception still puzzles and intrigues. It is one of those films in which you discover something new each time you watch it. Or, more likely, it makes you reinterpret what you thought Continue Reading
Bill & Ted Are Doomed: The most excellent prequel comic to Bill & Ted Face the Music
SNAPSHOTAfter defeating the evil dictator De Nomolos in Bogus Journey in 1995, things aren’t looking as excellent as they should for either Bill and Ted or Wyld Stallyns. There’s tension in the band and worry at home. Bill and Ted’s obsessiveness with writing the one song to bring peace to Continue Reading
Julie and the Phantoms: You only live once, but you can rock forever
SNAPSHOT“[Julie and the Phantoms] stars Madison Reyes as Julie, a talented singer who’s feeling uninspired after her mother died. But then three musicians come into Julie’s life and convince her to join their band, giving her a chance to rediscover her voice…and maybe fall in love along the way.” (synopsis Continue Reading