Grief can be a cruel, intangible beast. As we grapple with great loss and the seemingly unending loss of control that comes with it, we struggle to understand how to approach to deal with it, how to regain some form of power from an entity that seems to have Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Want to make life less boring? Just add monsters!
What does the everyday world of commuting, paying taxes and hurried lunches need more of you ask? Why monsters! Yes … MONSTERS. Now if you’re a resident of some nightmarish apocalyptic landscape like The Walking Dead or Alien/s, you may wish to disagree. But I’ll hazard a guess that, Continue Reading
Wayward Pines: “Once Upon a Time in Wayward Pines” S3, E3 review)
*SPOILERS AHEAD … AND THE DISTASTEFUL SMELL OF DREAMS DYING* So dreams huh? Lovely things to hold onto, filling you with hope and expectation, great lyrical fodder for Disney musical songs or Hallmark cards, but a real nasty piece of work when they die and disappoint. Or if you’re Continue Reading
Tick tock, tick tock … Belle & Tina are Time Travellers
It seems like everyone is travelling through time these days. If it isn’t Marty McFly in Back to the Future, it’s Rip Hunter and his motley crew in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, or good old Doctor Who, who rather delightfully and meta-richly ends up as one of the pop Continue Reading
The ocean is calling: Moana trailer + poster
SNAPSHOT Three thousand years ago, the greatest sailors in the world voyaged across the vast South Pacific, discovering the many islands of Oceania. But then, for a millennium, their voyages stopped – and no one today knows why. From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes Moana, a sweeping, CG-animated adventure Continue Reading
Is it possible to bridge The Space Between Us?
SNAPSHOT Described as being a “star-crossed science fiction love story,” The Space Between Us follows two teens from different worlds. Gardner Elliot, the first human born on Mars, is secretly raised in an experimental colony after his astronaut mother dies during childbirth. Sixteen years later, Gardner begins an online Continue Reading
Book review: All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders
Being an outsider is never an easy thing. It can be wondrous, freeing, the granter of wildly unexpected perspectives and a sense of being uniquely set apart; but it can also leave you feeling lonely, socially crucified and ill-adept and wondering if there is a place for you in Continue Reading
Need a Finding Nemo refresher before Finding Dory arrives? Here’s an emoji recap
Finding Dory is almost upon us folks. Yes good old Finding Dory which is … um … what was I saying? Oh yes … Finding Dory is almost upon us folks and … Goodness you could make Dory-like forgetful jokes all day couldn’t you? But guessing peoples’ sense of Continue Reading
First impressions: Be Cool Scooby-Doo
Reviving much-loved pop culture characters can be a challenge. Too much homage to nostalgia, to the much-loved but well worn tropes that defined the characters in the first place and you’re simply consigning them to an increasingly small niche and possibly eventual creative stagnation and obliterative irrelevancy. Too much new Continue Reading
Want to let the world know about your reading list? Rap it readers!
If you were to take a look at my bookshelves, you would soon come to realise that I own an enormous number of books., I mean, a LOT. Many of them are read, kept because of some emotional attachment or love of the book itself, but many, much to Continue Reading