SNAPSHOT No-one believed Luis’s dad when he said he’d been attacked by an alien. And growing up with an obsessed Ufologist for a father hasn’t been easy for 12-year-old Luis, either. But then three crazy aliens crash their ship right in front of Luis, and finally, he’s got the Continue Reading
Colony: “The Big Empty” (S3, E9 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … TORTURE AND GRIEF’S PARTIAL RESOLUTION Ask anyone who has experienced immense and immeasurable grief to describe it in any way. Odds are you will be given a bewildered look and an exhausted shrug of the shoulders accompanied by a haunting look in the eyes that this Continue Reading
Drawing Wallace the Brave: Will Henry brings his protagonist to life
As a writer who is, naturally enough, most comfortable with moving words merrily around a page, I am endlessly fascinated by the way artists, whose talents I most assuredly do not share alas, exercise their creative gift. This fascination increases inestimably when it is an artists drawing a comic Continue Reading
Now this is music Canadian/Canadienne: The Monowhales, Port Cities, Ralph, Charlotte Cardin, Virginia to Vegas #CanadaDay
I am fairly certain I was a Canadian in another life. That, or there is a Canadian hiding somewhere deep inside of me that has gifted me with a love of salmon, friendliness, bonhomie, openness and maple syrup, and a whole host of other things that make visiting this Continue Reading
Christmas in July #1: Book review of Twelve Nights by Andrew Zurcher
There is something deliciously wonderful about subsuming yourself in any book that takes places at Christmas, even if like Andrew Zurcher’s debut novel, Twelve Nights, it is more situational than thematic. There might be little that is innately festive in Zurcher’s lustrously-novel but that is in fact it’s greatest Continue Reading
Trio o’ TV trailers: Disenchantment, Wellington Paranormal, Nightflyers
Oh boy do we need more TV shows! Actually in the strictest not really since, unless you’re some kind of automaton (and if you are, when’s Skynet making their move, please?), no one really has the time in Peak Glut TV for any more programs in their schedule but Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: A pop culture A to Z by Otis Frampton
I remember fondly the days of learning my ABCs, when my kindergarten teacher Miss Allen and Sesame Street jointly taught me – contentions about how to pronounce the letter “Z” aside -how to go from the beginning to the end of the alphabet (love the song!) and how to Continue Reading
Book review: The Book Ninja by Ali Berg and Michelle Kalus
I believe it was those pop sages ABBA who once intoned in one of their marvellously-attractive songs that “Love isn’t Easy (But It Sure is Hard Enough)”. A perfect mix of early ’70s folk-pop, Swedish harmonies and life truisms doesn’t feature anywhere in The Book Ninja by Ali Berg Continue Reading
The hunt has evolved … all-new killing-happy The Predator
SNAPSHOT From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. The universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only Continue Reading
Movie review: Incredibles 2
Sequels occupy an odd place in the pantheon of Hollywood films, often eagerly-anticipated and existentially-dreaded in equal measure. They are usually, though not always, a response to a film making a cratering impact on the pop culture firmament, and while the studios make them because cash registers will likely Continue Reading