[caption id= (image courtesy Pan Macmillan Australia) One of the delights of diving deeply into a Peter F Hamilton novel – and dive deeply you will with many of his expansive efforts reaching the 700-plus page mark with ease – is being reminded once again that pretty much anything is Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Say hello to a Doctor Who-fied time-travelling Snoopy!
In his day, and it’s been a thoroughly successful 67 years and counting so far, Snoopy has been many things – an aspiring author, a hip rock ‘n’ roll-loving college student named Joe Cool and a dashing World War 1 flying ace, always on the hunt for the Red Continue Reading
Now this is music #81: Maggie Rogers, Ama Lou, Grandtheft/Delaney Jane, Tanukichan, Tom Misch
Life can feel like SO MUCH sometimes. It’s hard to catch your breath, to stop and think and take a good look around and think about what’s happening to you, what it all means and where it might take you. That’s why we have artists like the beguiling five Continue Reading
Delightful pixelated cartoon madness: Rick and Morty get an 8-bit intro
Rick and Morty, the titular stars of the epic cartoon series created by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, are no strangers to zipping to the past, present or future, here on Earth, far out in space or in weird alternate dimensions populated by hilariously crazy, odd creatures, many of Continue Reading
Movie review: The Edge of Seventeen
Childhood is often presented as some sort of unfettered idyll, a time of adventurous questioning and exploration unburdened the shoulder-sagging demands of adulthood. But the reality is that for all the depictions of untroubled starry-eyed blissful innocence, that growing hard is damn sight harder than it’s often made out Continue Reading
The world is ending AGAIN: The 100 season 4 trailer
The radiation is coming my friends and trust us it won’t be pretty! Now granted you might have thought that the threat from other people might be a bigger issue for the likes of Skaikru and the Grounders, neither of whom seem too inclined to engage in any kind Continue Reading
The Boy on the Bridge: M. R. Carey’s sequel to The Girl With All the Gifts
SNAPSHOT “Once upon a time, in a land blighted by terror, there was a very clever boy. The people thought the boy could save them, so they opened their gates and sent him out into the world. To where the monsters lived.” (source: Sci-Fi Now) You could be forgiven Continue Reading
Hey Mad Max! Meet Happy Feet … you’re welcome
I am betting, and yes I have been known to partake in games of chance and gambling on occasion – OK once, ONCE, and as a result my great aunt decided I had a chronic gambling addiction – that none of you have ever thought to combine the sweet, Continue Reading
Movie review: Rosalie Blum #StGeorgeOpenAir
One of the great joys and strengths of French cinema is its ability, gifted from a thoroughly unique cultural perspective, to look at the great issues of life in a way that differs markedly from that of Hollywood’s. Films like Rosalie Blum, written and directed by Julien Rappeneau and based on Continue Reading
Weekend pop art: Comic strips meets TV in creative mashups
Have you wondered what Linus would look like as a zombie? Or Pigpen as Daryl (he’s the one Peanuts character who’d be untroubled by the ablution-challenged environs of the zombie apocalypse). Or perhaps you think Game of Thrones could do with a dose of Calvin and Hobbes whimsicality? (Let’s Continue Reading