Extinctions the 2017 winner of Australia’s Miles Franklin award is an ambitious novel on a lot of levels. In its 280-page length, Josephine Wilson has packed an impressive number of issues, sending the two main characters in the book, ageing academic engineer (obsessed with the use of concrete and Modernist Continue Reading
Garak in high-res? Deep Space Nine doco What We Left Behind offers that tantalising possibility
True to my idiosyncratic form on pretty much everything, my favourite Star Trek show of all Star Trek shows is Deep Space Nine, which ran for seven seasons from 1993 to 1999. A marked departure from the shows up to this point, but not so much afterwards where the Continue Reading
Cyndi Lauper and Seth McFarlane make beautiful Family Guy music together
Talk about a dream come true! Two of my favourite creative people in the world together on the one show, The Graham Norton Show to be exact, combining their talents to gloriously good effect. Taking the songs of the brilliantly-talented and quirkly-lovable Cyndi Lauper at the urging of host Continue Reading
Saturday Morning TV: The Wombles
One of the fascinating aspects of looking back at characters that were a part of your childhood or youth is discovering, often quite profoundly, just how much they mean to you way back when. Of course as an eight-year-old in 1973 I wasn’t sitting in front of the TV Continue Reading
Comics review: Daybreak by Brian Ralph
There is a tendency in apocalyptic literature to go for the frenetic juggler narrative-wise. Given the scenarios usually at play, this is reasonably understandable since we’re generally talking epic fights for survival and not a stroll in the park on Sunday. The problem with going hard and big, a Continue Reading
Don’t be afraid: Tito and the Birds is here to beautifully embolden you
SNAPSHOT The Brazilian film — directed by Gustavo Steinberg (End of the Line), Gabriel Bitar (Cidade Cinza) and Andre Catoto (Say I Am Only Seventeen) — follows Tito, a shy 10-year-old boy who lives in a world on the brink of pandemic, where fear is crippling people, making them Continue Reading
Movie review: Leave No Trace
There is very little that is subtle about our current digital age. Though I am largely a fan, it is all too often the case that the louder, the more bombastic, the more obvious a story, the more it is given credence or is seen as the true teller Continue Reading
Things are changing in Atypical S2 trailer but Sam’s not a fan
SNAPSHOT Set in the wake of some major changes in the Gardner family’s natural environment, Sam (Keir Gilchrist) is struggling to adapt to some shifts in his high school friend group. Elsa (Jennifer Jason Leigh) is still trying to earn back the trust of her husband Doug (Michael Rappaport) Continue Reading
Fear the Walking Dead: “The Code” (S4, E11 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND WAY TOO MUCH MORGAN FOR ONE EPISODE … “Morgan, it’s not me, it’s you – I think I should start seeing other characters.” That, dear readers, is my imagined opening gambit in a conversation with good old Morgan (Lennie James), a character who whinged about Continue Reading
Sesame Street: How They Became Bert & Ernie (Fresh Prince of Bel Air parody)
There are many reasons to go to Sesame Street – there are 26 very good reasons I can think of straight off the bat – but one of the main ones, apart from watching my favourite monster Grover do this thing (super and otherwise), is to watch the latest Continue Reading