(courtesy IMP Awards) Yes, my friends, I put up a Christmas in July tree. Well, to be fair, it’s a plain white tree that sits on a table in our loungeroom all year round and which is bedecked in Christmas ornaments in July and December (and yes, just into February Continue Reading
Mini-mass of movie trailers: Close to You, Chuck Chuck Baby and We Live in Time
(via Shutterstock) One of the things that cinematic storytelling does so very well is to let us stop and soak in the humanity of a person’s lived experiences. Sure, other media do that, but in different ways, and there’s something truly rich and special about a couple of hours in Continue Reading
Book review: Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) Not a lot goes right in life for the two titular characters at the heart of Karl Geary’s arrestingly moving novel, Juno Loves Legs. Born into poverty in 1970s Dublin, they are both well and truly up against from the get-go in their economically deprived estate; Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Fast and different is no bad thing in Lazy Bloom (Graine De Paresse)
(courtesy TheCGBros) TheCGBros Presents Lazy Bloom (Graine De Paresse) [in which] in a small peaceful world, lives a people of lazy creatures called the Blobs. One day their calm is broken by the birth of Zip, a hyperactive blob. He will try to fit in this world despite his differences. Continue Reading
Boldly going where no Starfleet person has gone before … Star Trek: Prodigy S1 and S2
(courtesy IMP Awards) Season 1Thanks to the raw viewing immediacy that streaming offers, it doesn’t take much for any would-be watcher of a series to be left far behind, very quickly. There is, simply out, way more content than there are hours in the waking day, and by a considerable Continue Reading
UPCOMING READ: The Beforelife of Eliza Valentine by Laura Pearson
(courtesy official Laura Pearson Twitter/X account) YOU’VE HEARD OF THE AFTERLIFE. WELCOME TO THE BEFORELIFE. There are four of us: Samuel, Lucy, Thomas, and me – Eliza. We came into being the day Becca Valentine was born. We’ve been by her side ever since. What she doesn’t know yet, is Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Know Your Station by Sarah Gailey / Kiana Kangas / Rebecca Nalty
(courtesy BOOM! Studios) A prevailing theme in many sci-fi stories is how, even in the future where things are supposed to get better, the rich seem to be richer and still in power while the poor continue to be treated like annoying but necessary resources who think far too much Continue Reading
Book review: The Summer Job by Lizzy Dent
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) You have to hand it to romantic comedies (which, by the way, this reviewer adores) – they often have the most outrageously out-there premises that, somehow, in the hands of an accomplished writer, end up feeling grounded and human. It takes some talent for that to Continue Reading
Paddington and 2 are coming back to the big screen!
What a wonderful Christmas in July gift! In the UK at least – fingers crossed Aussie cinemas follow suit – Paddington and Paddington 2 are heading back to movie theatres for more warmhearted adventures on the big screen. It’s a fabulous way to spend some quality cinema time but even Continue Reading
Book review: The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands by Sarah Brooks
(courtesy Hachette Australia) If you stop to think about, every time you open a book and starting reading the opening words on the first page, you are embarking on a journey of sorts, one without a defined ending and only the most beguiling of beginnings. You think nothing of setting Continue Reading