(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
You’re welcome! Moana 2 drops its first teaser trailer, ready for high sea adventures new
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTAfter receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana (voiced by Aulixʻi Cravalho) journeys to the far seas of Oceania and into dangerous, long-lost waters for an adventure unlike anything she has ever faced. Disney’s Moana 2 is written and directed by animation filmmaker Dave Derrick Continue Reading
The real story is just beneath the surface: Thoughts on Bodkin
(courtesy IMP Awards) Adding a healthy dose of quirkiness to most genres usually works a treat, throwing an appealing dash of flawed humanity into the mix which helps to leaven out some of the more straight down the line elements. In fact, properly and well used quirk has the power Continue Reading
Book review: Goodbye Birdie Greenwing by Ericka Waller
(courtesy Penguin Books Australia) It may not sound like an attractive proposition to be told that a novel will break your heart little-by-little before it breaks it completely but what about if we told you that while all that rending and slow motion rupturing is taking place that some quite Continue Reading
Graphic novel review: Antarctica – Volume 1: Out in the Void
(courtesy Image Comics) You should always be wary when someone comes home from a job they can’t talk about at a place that officially doesn’t exist and then suddenly disappears after being called back there with little to no notice. And yet while angels and those possessing any sense of Continue Reading
The short and the short of it: Fun with baby krakens in Stowaway
(courtesy YouTube (c) BYU’s Center for Animation – Student Films) SNAPSHOTAfter discovering a baby kraken aboard their ship, two bumbling pirates try to kill it. But as their incompetent attempts escalate, they only throw themselves further into disaster. [Stowaway is] an award-winning short animated film created by quarantined students during Continue Reading
Book review: You Are Here by David Nicholls
(courtesy Hachette Australia) We’re all used to the rom-com idea of love being swift, heavily meet-cutey and complicated just enough to make the reaching of the romantic finish line feel like an earned thing. But the truth is, love isn’t ever really that straightforward, and while we might fall for Continue Reading
Say goodbye to the apocalypse: Sweet Tooth season 3 drops full trailer
(courtesy IMP Awards) SNAPSHOTThe colorful postapocalyptic series begins at an isolated home in Yellowstone and follows Gus and Jepperd as they make their way to Colorado. The second season eventually brings the duo back to Yellowstone, but only for a short time: The finale ends with Gus, Jepperd, Wendy, and Continue Reading
A mini-mass of movie trailers: Harold and the Purple Crayon, Am I OK?, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F + Star Wars: The Acolyte featurette
(via Shutterstock) How much popcorn is too much popcorn? Is there such a thing? And can you live on choc tops alone? They are all vitally important questions when the movie trailers keep coming and coming and you face the, not altogether unappealing prospect, of spending a considerable chunk of Continue Reading
Movie review: Thelma the Unicorn
(courtesy IMP Awards) When your 11-year-old niece, who fancies herself as a nascent YouTuber, and who has the personality and presentation chops to deliver on her aspirations, says via snappily-recorded video that you need to watch and review the new Thelma the Unicorn film, you can’t, of course, say no. Continue Reading