One of the things I love about music is its complexity and relatability, the way it helps you to not just make sense of life but to add to it too, even if it all it does is lift you up for a moment. At the end of a Continue Reading
What will you become? Fear the Walking Dead season 3 (poster and trailers)
SNAPSHOT As Fear the Walking Dead returns for season three, our families will be brought together in the vibrant and violent region formerly known as the U.S.-Mexico border. International lines done away with following the world’s end, our characters must attempt to rebuild not only society, but family as Continue Reading
Book review: The End of the Day by Claire North
Let’s face it – Death does not have the best reputation around. It is seen, at least in much of Western secular thought, as the end of things, the loss of everything we know and love and hold dear, a terrifying journey into a dark unknown from which there Continue Reading
Boldly going all over again: First Star Trek Discovery trailer
SNAPSHOT Set roughly ten years before the events of the original series, Star Trek: Discovery shows a never before seen era that shaped Federation history. First Officer Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) encounters new ships, worlds and villains as the threat of war looms.(synopsis via Netflix) There was a point, Continue Reading
Movie review: Wilson
Balancing snark and sweetness is never an easy undertaking in storytelling, with two quite disparate elements either slipping one way or the other out of balance, or failing to get at all, leaving you with confused characterisation, a muddled narrative and ultimately, half-baked, listless story. But in the case Continue Reading
What does Neil deGrasse Tyson think about this summer’s sci-fi movies? We’re glad you asked
Unless you’ve been living on the dark side of a particularly remote moon of late, you would be aware that Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist, author and all science expert, is insanely good at communicating everything you could possibly want to know about the world around us and the Continue Reading
Book review: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers #1)
It would be hard to argue with the fact that humanity has, over the countless eons of its existence, provided a plethora of reasons why its future shouldn’t be every bit as fractious and be devilled as its past. And yet, for all the evidence stacked high to the Continue Reading
Stephen Hawking needs a new voice – which celebrity can fit the bill?
SNAPSHOT Stephen Hawking has had the same trademark voice for 30 years and has now decided it’s time for a change. Watch him view the audition tapes from hopeful celebrities… (synopsis via Laughing Squid) You know how it is – you’ve had something for a while and true you Continue Reading
Guide to the classics: Neil Gaiman’s American Gods (curated article)
Article by Elizabeth Hale, University of New England Fans of Neil Gaiman are having a bountiful year. In February there was the release of his retelling of the Norse myths. In March, Dark Horse released the comic book adaptation of his influential 2001 novel American Gods. And this month, American Continue Reading
What what?! What do Ryan Reynolds and Jake Gyllenhaal make of their most popular Google searches about them?
While Life, the film they were promoting may not have performed to expectations, being variously described by critics as “an inferior addition to the genre” (David Stratton, The Australian) and a film that “goes nowhere fast” (Gary Dowell, Dark Horizons), stars Ryan Reynolds (not Debbie Reynolds son FYI) and Continue Reading