Life is messy. We all know this deep down and yet time and again, we seek ways short and long term, consciously and subconciously to bring order where there palpably is none and where, if we’re honest, we know there can never be. And yet we keep trying, shoving down Continue Reading
Terrific trio of movie trailers: Holly Slept Over, Premature, Irresistible
Off to the cinema we go again! It’s a brilliantly mixed bad this time around with some fantastical relationship issues given a refresher, a young woman negotiating love and all its complexities and a political drama that makes a series of salient points while having fun doing it. Enjoy … Continue Reading
Star Trek: Picard review: “Remembrance” and “Maps and Legends” (S1, E1 & E2)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND A NICE SPOT OF RED TOO, IF YOU’RE LUCKY Twenty years is a long time. It may not always feel like it, so rapid is the passage of time, but it is long enough for one Jean-Luc Picard, late of Starfleet and now the overseer of Continue Reading
Movie review: 1917
War is by any measure one of the most evil and nightmarish of things that humanity has ever inflicted on itself. For most of us, those fortunate enough to have been spared the bloody pointlessness of armed conflict, it is a universally acknowledged truth and nothing more; it is only Continue Reading
Book review: The Last by Hanna Jameson
Where would you want to be at end of the world? With your loved ones or good friends? Favourite bar? The restaurant that serves your steaks just so? Most people, understandably would choose the first option if for no other reason than when everything is at its apocalyptically worst, you Continue Reading
Living big in a tiny house: One couple turns a WW2 rail car into a cosy magical home
In an age where houses seem to be getting bigger and bigger, and the blocks on which they sit, like an adult trying to squeeze onto a kindergartner’s seat, smaller and smaller, it’s refreshing to see a host of varied people bucking the trend. This can be for a variety Continue Reading
Comics review: Blackbird
What do you do if your life, both the one you’ve actually lived and the one you have always imagined yourself living turn out to be fabrications of the real thing? And how should you react when everything you have always thought was true, turns out to be exactly that Continue Reading
Classic book review: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams
The more things, the more they stay the same. This oft-repeated and frankly rather over-used phrase, which simultaneously sounds both very wise and extraordinarily obvious, is proof positive that humanity has a predilection for repeating its errant behaviour over and over again, no matter how disastrous or comically awful the Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #21: ONUKA, Storm, Agnes Obel, Russ, REYKO + #Eurovision 2020 update
If you’re going to do life properly, there’s a lot to navigate. And which all that busyness can come a sense of being overwhelmed and subsumed, with things rushing at you far too fast to make any meaningful sense of them. Which is why having these five artists along for Continue Reading
Movie review: Underwater
Humanity is, in general, not a huge fan of things that go bump in the night or, for that matter, of anything that swims menacingly just out of sight in deep, dark water. And yet, when the siren song of immense profits call, as they do in the William Eubank-directed Continue Reading