(courtesy IMP Awards) Star Wars: Andor is a superlatively impressive show on all kinds of levels but where it is really excelling in this humble reviewer’s opinion is the way in which it is deconstructing a host of romantic myths about what it means to be standing in defiant opposition Continue Reading
Dance your pain away with Mon Montha #StarWars #Maythe4thBeWithYou #Andor
(image courtesy IMP Awards) Star Wars: Andor, now four episodes into its second season, is a remarkable show in many ways. But one of the things that really sets it apart is the sheer raw humanity of many of the characters, best exemplified in the third episode, “Harvest”, where a Continue Reading
Road to Eurovision 2025 – Week 6 – Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Serbia (semi-final 2, part 3)
What is the Eurovision Song Contest?Started way back in 1956 as a way of drawing a fractured Europe back together with the healing power of music, the Eurovision Song Contest, or Concours Eurovision de la Chanson – the contest is telecast in both English and French – is open to Continue Reading
“I’m starting to think I am better at being in the closet.” Full trailer for Overcompensating
(courtesy First Showing) SNAPSHOTA24 and MGM’s Overcompensating is a college-set ensemble comedy about the wild, chaotic journey of Benny, a closeted former football player and homecoming king, as he becomes fast friends with Carmen, a high school outsider on a mission to fit in at all costs. With guidance from Continue Reading
Book review: Great Big Beautiful Life by Emily Henry
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Watching a writer’s journey is often a gloriously fascinating thing. Going from an impressive debut to successive novels that build upon actual realisation and beguiling promise, many writers go from strength-to-strength, honing their talent and their gift for evocative wordsmithing into something that leaves you breathless Continue Reading
Movie review: The Last Showgirl
(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s rare for a movie to really leave a mark on your heart and soul. Most movies, while thoroughly enjoyable and well worth your cinematic or streaming time, glance off you, never to be heavily thought of again; they have their moment, sometimes a very good one, Continue Reading
Book review: Exodus: The Archimedes Engine #1: Become the Traveler by Peter F. Hamilton
(courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) There is an enormous luxury and sense of expansive indulgence that comes with settling into a sci-fi epic that stretches for almost 900 pages. That sense of narrative pleasure only grows greater still when the author who has penned this magnificent space operatic masterpiece is Peter Continue Reading
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds meets Spongebob Squarepants in fun new Paramount+ ad
(courtesy YouTube (c) Paramount+) SNAPSHOTThe “Patrick Starship Enterprise” ad takes place on starship shaped like Patrick himself, complete with a thruster positioned right on his butt. This ship is crewed by the characters from Strange New Worlds — Captain Pike, Uhura, Spock — with the addition of Sandy Cheeks and Continue Reading
“If I’m giving up everything… I want to win. We have to.” Andor S2 E1-3 review
(courtesy IMP Awards) ***** SPOILERS AHEAD ***** When the history of some great struggle is recounted, most relevantly in this case, that of the liberal western democratic allies who took on the might of fascist Germany and won in World War Two, there is an inadvertent tilt towards stripping all Continue Reading
Haha cinema: Trailers for Bride Hard, Heads of State and Jess Plus None
(via Shutterstock) Comedy is hit or miss, it’s true but if a creator gets it right, then on the soul-lightening joys that await! Life is so damn serious, dark and a thousand kinds of terrible all jostling for a place in our crowded slate of existential angst, and yet there Continue Reading