When someone very close to you dies, it’s entirely natural for people to extend their condolences, to offer their love and support in any way they can and to be present with you in your emotionally-enervating moment of grief and loss. It’s a brief bubble when loving arms envelop Continue Reading
Star Wars: Designing a Universe of Sound (video essay)
By any estimation Star Wars is a cinematic landmark. Through its 40 years of history – yes fellow 1977 viewers of the first movie we are, in fact, that old – George Lucas’s franchise, now ensconsed in and being given new life by Disney who have dramatically stepped production Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “Into the Forest I Go” (S1, E9 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND KLINGONS BUT HEY YOU KNEW THAT ALREADY RIGHT? “We are about to face the most difficult challenge we have ever attempted. Today, we stare down the bow of the Ship of the Dead, the very same ship that took thousands of our own at the Continue Reading
Bright: take a dive into the dark side of things (featurette + trailer)
SNAPSHOT Set in an alternate present-day where humans, orcs, elves and fairies have been coexisting since the beginning of time, this action-thriller directed by David Ayer (Suicide Squad, End of Watch, writer of Training Day) follows two cops from very different backgrounds. Ward, a human (Will Smith), and Jakoby, Continue Reading
Book review: The Enchanted Places by Christopher Milne
When you think about characters as beloved as Christopher Robin, Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and Eeyore and the rest of the residents of the Hundred-Acre Wood, it’s easy to assume that everything to do with them must be equally as bucolic and paradisaical as they are. After all, Continue Reading
He’s a genius! Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas
SNAPSHOT Tad travels to Las Vegas to see his friend Sara’s latest discovery: a papyrus that proves the existence of King Midas, who turned everything he touched into gold thanks to the power of a magical necklace. But the happy encounter between Tad and Sara is disrupted when the Continue Reading
Comics review: Angelic (issues 1 & 2)
It is said we stand on the shoulders of those came before us, and in so far as belief systems persist, physical reminders of their presence persist, culture, arts and political discourse are informed by their antecedents, that’s true. But what happens when all you have is fragments? A Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: My favourite Star Wars posters
40 years ago this year, somewhere around the 27 October to be precise, I saw Star Wars: A New Hope (then just plain old Star Wars) – to be fair I highly doubt my mother took me to the small one room cinema in Ballina on opening day or Continue Reading
Now these are beguiling beats: Millie Turner, BAYNK, Oliver, Satin Jackets, RAYE
Let’s face it – life gets knda boring with just the one beat keeping you company all day everyday. It’s good to mix things up, keeping a multitude of beats coming and going – and no, before any of you go that way, this is not an encouraging to Continue Reading
The hero DCEU doesn’t deserve: Wonder Woman Honest Trailer
Wonder Woman, this year’s superhero smash hit, was a breath of cinematic fresh air. Featuring a kickass female hero who was capable and strong and yet demonstrably human (while, yes, still being a literal god), the film, directed by Patty Jenkins, who now has the gig for Wonder Woman Continue Reading