ARC courtesy Simon & Schuster (via NetGalley) – release date 25 May 2021. There is a certain romanticisation about writing that dwells steadfastly in the hearts of anyone who hasn’t actually written. Truth be told, it probably resides in the souls of those who do write; however, there it is Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2021: Week 5 – North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia
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
Movie review: Stowaway
It makes sense that there is an abundance of films set in the near or far depths of space. It is, after all, one of the most hostile environments known to humanity, a place inimical to life where, if peril threatens, there are little to no options for rescue or Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #48: Kito, Vanjess & Channel Tres, Amy Shark, Jagwar Ma, AlunaGeorge, Wallows
I love new music. There’s something about hearing the latest and the greatest and knowing that this song, or these songs to be more accurate most of the time, will be with you for the duration. But then there’s also something great about discovering tracks you somehow missed from ages Continue Reading
Mini mass of movie trailers: Luca, The Tomorrow War, Vivo
Let’s get away from the everyday! How so, you ask? Why with movies, I say, and especially these three movies which give you a chance to live out three impactful stories from the comfort of your own bed or loungeroom chair. Or even, heaven forbid, your commute on public transport Continue Reading
Docowatch: Secrets of the Whales
Humanity is by all accounts a remarkable species. However, for all that remarkability, we are also beset by an impressive number of flaws, one of which is the religiously encouraged arrogance that we are the unbridled, unstoppable masters of the universe. It is an arrogance that borne of the likely Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: The Fall (Volume 1) by Jared Muralt
Among the current, quite understandable, surfeit of apocalyptic and dystopian literature – a product of both a long-term decline in peoples’ faith in many things including governing bodies and the state of the world, and the seemingly never ending COVID pandemic – there is a very welcome trend that posits Continue Reading
Book review: The Coward (Quest for Heroes #1) by Stephen Aryan
ARC courtesy NetGalley – release date 31 August 2021 in Australia. At the very least, a good fantasy story should allow you to escape the often dreadfully predictable bonds of the everyday and escape into a world that’s nothing like the one you see on your daily commute or when Continue Reading
Book review: Catch Us the Foxes by Nicola West
ARC courtesy NetGalley – release date 7 July 2021 in Australia. There is a great and abiding darkness in Catch Us the Foxes by Nicola West which belies its setting in the bucolically sunny climes of the NSW South Coast, specifically the popular tourist town of Kiama, known most famously Continue Reading
Movie review: First Cow
It’s a cold, cruel world out there, where friendship and companionship can be the difference between making it and losing everything all alone. That was a true back on the American frontier in the eighteenth century as it is now, something that First Cow, the latest film by writer and Continue Reading