(courtesy IMP Awards) VELMA 2024 HALLOWEEN SPECIAL SNAPSHOTWith just 24 hours to bring Velma back, the friends search for a dark spellbook while trying to avoid the wrath of a vengeful spirit. But as the annual Sexy Halloween party nears, Velma and the gang must face their biggest fears… if Continue Reading
Deep TBR Halloween book review: A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher
(courtesy Argyll Productions) If you have ever seen a medieval battle scene where an army of armour and arrows and trebuchets (great big wooden slingy things) is laying siege to a walled city or castle, you will be well acquainted with how these conflicts generally go. There are lots of Continue Reading
Scary haha! Triple animated Halloween specials review – Family Guy, Sing and Bad Guys
(via Shutterstock) Get ready to be scared! Or amused! Or both? Being animated specials aimed mostly, but not exclusively – see special #1 for example – at kids, the scares, such as they are, are lighthearted and funny, the perfect way to celebrate Halloween if, like this reviewer, you are Continue Reading
Deep TBR book review: All the Galaxies by Philip Miller
(courtesy Allen & Unwin Book Publishers) After watching far too many books sit trapped in my To Be Read (TBR) pile for years and years, I decided it was high time a month was devoted to rescuing them from the reading void and diving into their promising stories. So, for Continue Reading
Christmas romance movie preview: The Merry Gentlemen + Hot Frosty
(via Shutterstock) It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and it’s beginning to look a lot like, you know, and yes, every single very Christmassy phrase is being engaged right now because the festive season is so close we can taste it (I mean, literally taste it; here in Continue Reading
Comedy mystery review round-up: Only Murders in the Building S4, E4-8 and Bad Monkey S1, 8-10
(courtesy IMP Awards) Only Murders in the Building S4, E4-8 What beautifully wrought five episodes. While the expected sleuthing twists and turns are well and truly present & accounted for, in almost gasp-worthy, cliffhanger number, what emerges quite powerfully, as it always does in Only Murders in the Building is Continue Reading
Movie review: From Hilde, With Love (In Liebe, Eure Hilde)
(courtesy IMDB) There has likely never been an age in which humanity hasn’t had to battle against some form of tyranny or another, but in 2024, the pressing need to take a stand against the monstrous autocracy of fascism and its barbaric intent to shape life in its own twisted Continue Reading
“Guys like us don’t become the heroes.” Find a new place in life with Interior Chinatown
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTBased on Charles Yu’s award-winning book of the same name, the show follows the story of Willis Wu, a background character trapped in a police procedural called Black & White. Relegated to the background, Willis goes through the motions of his on-screen job, waiting tables, dreaming about Continue Reading
Deep TBR book review: An Accidental Odyssey (An Exlibris Adventure) by kc dyer
(courtesy Penguin Random House) After watching far too many books sit trapped in my To Be Read (TBR) pile for years and years, I decided it was high time a month was devoted to rescuing them from the reading void and diving into their promising stories. So, for October, each Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Peculiar Woods (Vol. 2) – The Mystery of the Intelligents by Andrés J. Colmenares
(courtesy Simon & Schuster) It’s wonderful when a creator can make a cliffhanger moment pay off. If you recall, the first Peculiar Woods story, The Ancient Underwater City, ended definitively, yes, but a tantalising cliffhanger moment woven in, and in its sequel, The Mystery of the Intelligents, Andrés J. Colmenares Continue Reading