SNAPSHOTWill Anderson’s latest Have Heart, a humorous and relatable tale of a looping animated GIF in the midst of an existential crisis, has already charmed live audiences worldwide and is now looking to blow a few minds online. With a healthy festival run throughout 2017 and early 2018, Have Heart Continue Reading
Book review: Billie by Anna Gavalda
Billie is one of those gleefully seditious and mischievous that subverts all your expectations by packing an emotional wallop the size of the Cévennes mountains in France. That geographic reference is quite apropos to proceedings because it is where lifelong friends Billie and Franck are trapped after falling off a Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #43: FLAVIA, KRANE, San Holo, Porter Robinson, Harry Nathan
Love, so its formidable PR machine goes, is all wonderful, all the time, right? Well, no, not really; for all the people caught up in the rapture and ecstasy of the start of love’s sweet romantic journey, there are plenty of others sliding off the cliff of despair (not a Continue Reading
Movie review: The Dig
Archaeological are by their very nature spectacularly impressive things. Whether it is the discovery of First Nations art in the Kimberleys that is tens of thousands of years old or, for the purpose of this review, an Anglo Saxon ship and gold artifacts in Suffolk, we can’t help but be Continue Reading
Book review: Low Expectations by Stuart Everly-Wilson
Watch a Disney film or traipse into a bookstore or even just watch an ad or two and you’ll work out pretty quickly that we are supposed to be able to do anything. All it takes is grit and gumption, a tenacious vision and some vibrant creativity and the world, Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: King of Nowhere by W. Maxwell Prince / Tyler Jenkins / Hilary Jenkins
It may not be immediately obvious but at the heart of every fantastical tale, if its told well, of course, sits a vibrantly humanistic core. This is certainly the case in the King of Nowhere written by W. Maxwell Prince (Ice Cream Man) with artwork by Tyler Jenkins (Grass Kings, Continue Reading
WandaVision: Review of “On a Very Special Episode …” and “All-New Halloween Spooktacular! ” (S1, E5 and E6)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A TV HOMAGE SOAKED IN GRIEF … Would you like to see how powerful grief can be? How it can completely alter the entirety of the landscape of your life, pluck you from good and reason into a maelstrom of senseless and atypical decision-making and the Continue Reading
Book review: We Contain Multitudes by Sarah Henstra #ValentinesDay
One of the great tropes of any kind of love story is that of opposites attracting, the idea that two people can come from completely different backgrounds, sensibilities, and outlooks and still find common ground in the fertile surrounds of true love. It’s an intrinsically appealing idea but rarely has Continue Reading
Retro romantic movie review: Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist #ValentinesDay
Depending on where you look in popular culture, love is either a many-splendoured thing, torturously complicated or an agony beyond all belief. It is not, despite all the romantic comedy storytelling out there that lauds the transcendent beauty and wonder of falling in love, seen to be a simple and Continue Reading
Love, hope and expectations: Thoughts on the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (season 2)
Part of the inestimable joy of watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in all its hyper-exuberant, dazzlingly gorgeous, cleverly quirky glory is simply sitting back and let the vibrantly witty wordplay wash over you like some sort of heavenly linguistic balm. Every character is brilliantly smart and funny, every word they Continue Reading