SNAPSHOTBloom (Pirates of the Caribbean) and Delevingne (Suicide Squad) star in Carnival Row, a series set in a Victorian fantasy world filled with mythological immigrant creatures whose exotic homelands were invaded by the empires of man. This growing population struggles to coexist with humans — forbidden to live, love, or Continue Reading
Movie review: Brittany Runs a Marathon
If you were to use the likes of Oprah and Tony Robbins are your guides, you would have to assume the world is awash in victorious people, staring down all manner of existential perils and emerging, self-realisation trophy in hand, on top every single damn time. But as we know Continue Reading
Book review: The Lost Puzzler by Eyal Kless
Is humanity its own worst enemy? History is littered with example after bloody example that would suggest we are, and then some, the holders of daggers to our throats that are briefly raised only to be plunged in again and again, as we cut off our existential nose to spite Continue Reading
Saturday morning TV: The Herculoids
If I were Zandor (Mike Road) of The Herculoids, ruler of the Lost in Space-ish planet Amzot/Quasar, I would seriously consider installing some kickass space defence systems, or at the very least, a really big, red “Beware of the space dog” sign that would sail around in orbit and perhaps Continue Reading
Movie review: The Extraordinary Journey of Celeste Garcia
New beginnings are always a curious thing. They come with the shiny promise of everything new and unsullied, and yet lurking somewhere deep within, is the knowledge, however energetically repressed, that the past is never truly left behind. Whatever the truth of this observation, in The Extraordinary Journey of Celeste Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #8: Foster the People, Aurora, Alex Lahey, Ava Max, Jai Wolf
One of the reasons certain songs stick with us is because they connect so deeply and profoundly with something we have gone through. It helps, of course, if they sound insanely catchy musically, but ultimately what hooks them deep into our souls is a sense that this artist is speaking Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “Here to Help” (S5, E1 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND KIDS WITHOUT PARENTS … ZOMBIES WITHOUT SOULS AND SOME SECOND-HAND IDEALS LOOKING WORSE FOR WEAR … There’s a great yawning chasm between ideals and execution at the best of times – you know, when there’s running water, bedding and fresh episodes of Grace and Frankie – Continue Reading
Keep off the grass … or you might get Stuck
SNAPSHOTDarby (Heather Matarazzo) finds herself in trouble with the law, and is sentenced to house arrest. Now she must serve 30 days in the home she used to share with her ex-boyfriend Mo (Amir Talai), that he now shares with his new fiancé. Stuck is directed by American actress-turned-filmmaker Jillian Continue Reading
Book review: Postmarked Piper’s Reach by Jodi Cleghorn and Adam Byatt
In his 1953 novel The Go-Between, L. P. Hartley rather sagely observes, and no doubt from a position of much lived, wisdom-gathering experience, that “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” As opening lines go they don’t get much better, not simply because of the poetic Continue Reading
Movie review: Always Be My Maybe
There is a sacred contract between filmmaker and audience member for anyone who goes to see a romantic comedy – they will take you away on a magically romantic carpet ride to a place where “meet cutes” trounce Tinder and obstacles are overcome with a quick trip to the airport Continue Reading