(courtesy IMP Awards) It’s always risky to make a sweeping generalisation – but highly enjoyable which is why we do them – but by and large films set in grimly apocalyptic environments are usually big on the shock and awe, the blockbuster and the epic and harrowingly short on engaging Continue Reading
Big reveal! Feast your eyes on the stunning cover for Dan Hanks’ forthcoming novel, The Way Up is Death (Angry Robot Books)
(via Shutterstock) If you’re after novels that are packed to the imaginative brim with clever ideas, fantastically engaging characters and fantasy/sci-fi/horror premises that absolutely come alive and practically fly off the page, and yes, a buoyant sense of escapist adventure with lots of heart, then British author Dan Hanks is Continue Reading
Songs, songs and more songs #107: BRUX, The Aston Shuffle, Brad Mullins, Jamie xx + Låpsley + Eurovision 24 winner Nemo goes orchestral
(via Shutterstock) We’re heading to the club this time around and honestly you may not ever want to leave! The five songs featured are not out and out furious dance numbers but they are all beat heavy in their own way and come with lyrics and a mix of tempos Continue Reading
Book review: Dancing Barefoot by Alice Boyle
(courtesy Text Publishing) As someone who spent much of my childhood and youth stuck well and truly out of the mainstream – that’s partly true now really but adulthood affords you far more options for ameliorating its worst effects and doing it on your terms – bullied and harassed, there’s Continue Reading
“My name is Harriet Manners, and I’ll always be a geek.” Thoughts on Geek Girl S1
(courtesy and (c) Netflix) Is it possible to have your fairytale dream come true – even when you know don’t know at the time that it IS your fairytale dream – and keep your sense of self intact or does the former swallow the latter whole and you are left Continue Reading
Will summer end before it even begins? That ’90s Show season 2 trailer
(courtesy IMDb (c) Netflix) SNAPSHOTIt’s 1996 and Leia Forman is back in Point Place for another summer of fun with her friends and grandparents, Kitty and Red. Leia and Jay are excited to be together again after nine months of long distance. But she’s on edge since Jay still doesn’t Continue Reading
Book review: Moon Road by Sarah Leipciger
(courtesy Penguins Books Australia) Life takes a heavy toll on all of us. How much damage it causes us in amongst all the good and happy times doesn’t become readily apparent until much later in life and usually only when some lightning rod of an event causes us to be Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Lightfall (book 3) – The Dark Times by Tim Probert
(courtesy Harper Collins Publishers Australia) It’s a rare thing indeed to proclaim, in musically buoyant Mary Poppins fashion, that something is “practically perfect in every way” but that’s really all that can be said about each and every instalment of Lightfall by massively talented writer and illustrator Tim Probert– 1: Continue Reading
Farewell Star Trek: Discovery – reviews of the final two episodes E9 (“Lagrange Point”) and E10 (“Life, Itself”)
(courtesy IMP Awards) EPISODE 9 “Lagrange Point” What a wild ride the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Discovery is! With their spore-drive nav system not exactly up to code and the Breen hot upon their heels, Discovery has no choice but to jump with the hope that they’ll close enough Continue Reading
Book review: Cheer Up, Love – Adventures in Depression with the Crab of Hate by Susan Calman
(courtesy Hachette Australia) Is it possible to be funny both funny and incisive about mental health? It is if you’re comedian Susan Calman, who, when she’s not making us laugh from the stage or on TV – her Grand Day Out series is a joy and makes travelling just as Continue Reading