Pop quiz! The world is ending, yes again – once is understandable, two is just careless and beyond that, well – and you have one last chance to get aboard a ship that will take you out to the moon of Io, orbiting Jupiter, around which sits all that is Continue Reading
Book review: Lenny’s Book of Everything by Karen Foxlee
There is this overly-romantic idea out there that the moment someone close to you is in some kind of mortal danger that you somehow ascend to a hitherto unglimpsed level of sainthood. It is as if how much you love that person is an inert mass of little to no Continue Reading
Book trailer: The Last Voyage of Poe Blythe
SNAPSHOT There is something Poe Blythe, the 17-year-old captain of the Outpost’s last mining ship, wants far more than the gold they tear from the Serpentine River. Revenge. Poe has vowed to annihilate the river raiders who robbed her of everything two years ago. But as she navigates the treacherous Continue Reading
One team: The breathtaking beauty and inspiring message of Our Planet
SNAPSHOT The groundbreaking, eight-part series will showcase the planet’s most precious species and fragile habitats, revealing amazing sights on Earth in ways they’ve never been seen using the latest in 4k camera technology. Filmed in 50 countries across all the continents of the world, with crew capturing more than three Continue Reading
Purl and the tricky art of fitting in without sacrificing who you are
SNAPSHOTPurl, follows a bright pink ball of yarn who begins work at a homogenous corporate office filled with men who waste no time ostracizing her. The short is written and directed by Kristen Lester and produced by Gillian Libbert-Duncan. (synopsis (c) EW) Fitting into a new workplace is never easy Continue Reading
Little Woods: The wrong things for the right reasons
SNAPSHOT Ollie (Tessa Thompson) is a reformed drug runner now living in an economically depressed small town in North Dakota, who was caught coming back from Canada with medicine for her terminally ill mother and has been toeing the line ever since. After her mother dies, Ollie’s sister Deb (Lily Continue Reading
Respect, opportunity and joy: The timeless lessons of 50 years of Sesame Street
Sesame Street is 50 years old this year! That’s a lot of words of the day, pearls of wisdom, Grover-led hilarity and learning opportunities dispensed to the children of the world, especially those in disadvantaged situations, and Sesame Workshop, the organisation behind Sesame Street since 1969 when it all began, Continue Reading
Star Trek Discovery: “Point of Light” (S2, E3 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND MUCH FIERY KLINGON-NESS … AND FAMILIAL ANGST … The big question for this episode of Star Trek Discovery, entitled “Point of Light” (or seven of them but it’s only one episode and who’s got time, narratively-speaking, for seven of the damn things?) is whether in space, Continue Reading
Mary Poppins Returns: Here’s what you might have missed
As sequels go, Mary Poppins Returns is almost within a class of its own. Released 54 years after the original Mary Poppins came out in 1964, it is every bit a much for its predecessor, drawing more faithfully off the books by P. L. Travers while also hearkening back many Continue Reading
Book review: Your Second Life Begins When You Realize You Only Have One by Raphaëlle Giordano
Have you ever had one of those friends who found themselves a new religion or transformative way of thinking, one so powerful that it completely changed and profoundly the way they approached life that they talked about nothing else every time you saw them? Even worse, so enthusiastic was their Continue Reading